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25/09/2017 I'm a Celebrity.... 10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity.  The celebrity's first name and surname is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers.

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1.

Which well-known football manager has managed the international teams of England, Mexico and the Ivory Coast as well as Leicester City?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

Sven-Göran Eriksson

2.

What annual cultural event, held in Britain every August, has a name that means literally ‘session’?

Eisteddfod

3.

In the Book of Genesis Esau is said to “sell his birth-right for a mess of pottage” – but what is the dish of pottage made from?

Lentils

(mess of pottage is lentil stew or lentil soup)

4.

The small town of Alston in Cumbria and the stand-up comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown are linked by which fictional town?

Royston Vasey

(the town in The League of Gentleman is based on Alston and named after Brown’s real name Roy Vasey)

5.

Which Asian country came into existence in 1945 and then disappeared in 1976?

North Vietnam

6.

Which widely used app has a logo in which the normal tittle above the second letter of the name has been replaced by a flame?

Tinder

7.

What is the name of the inventor and industrialist, who founded a manufacturing textile-chain making business in 1879 which had its main factory in Burnage?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

(Hans) Renold

8.

In 1956 Norman Granz established the Verve record label specifically to release the recordings of which American singer – who incidentally would have been 100 years old this year?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

Ella Fitzgerald

9.

Denpasar, with almost a million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Lesser Sunda Islands.  On which well-known island is it located?

Bali

10.

In sailing what is the name of the class of boat defined as a cross between a dinghy and a keelboat?  It was originally designed in the 1960s by Norwegian Jan Herman Linge for use by his son and is now a regular feature of Olympic sailing competitions.

Yngling

(a shorthand way of saying ‘young linge’)

 

 

 

and the celebrity is the singer...

Bryn Terfel