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28/05/2018 I'm a Celeb.... 10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity.  The celebrity's name is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers.

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1.

In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of novels which alphabetic symbol is used to denote death?

Omega

(the last letter of the Greek alphabet)

2.

Which beast is the traditional symbol of Scotland and, in particular, of the monarch of Scotland?

Unicorn

3.

Which phrase from the first line of WB Yeats’ poem Sailing to Byzantium became the title of the 2007 film that won the Best Picture Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony?

No Country For Old Men

4.

 What was the family name of Viscount Palmerston?

Temple

5.

Prior to 1963 what was the name of New York’s main International airport? 

Idlewild

6.

Who produced the Beatles’ album Let It Be? (surname gives the anagram letter)

Phil Spector  

7.

Which North Yorkshire village lying on Wainwight’s Coast to Coast walk is the main settlement in Upper Swaledale?

Reeth

8.

Which Cambridge University professorship has variously been held by include Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking?

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

9.

At which Football League club did Brian Clough start his managerial career? 

Hartlepool United

10.

Often turned into a paste and sold in tubes what is the alternative name for the plant Japanese horseradish?

Wasabi

 

 

and the celebrity is ....

Ruth Wilson