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1.

120 people live in this Gloucestershire village. It has a church, a post office and once upon a time it had a small station which has become one of the most celebrated railway stations in English literature.  What’s the name of the village?

Adlestrop

(from the Edward Thomas poem)

2.

Created by E C Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre, which character started off as the star but ended up better known as the girlfriend of a sailor?

Olive Oyl

(the sailor, of course, was Popeye)

3.

Which celebrated novelist wrote Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister amongst many other popular novels? (surname provides the anagram letter)

Anthony Trollope

4.

Which country’s English name is based on the Greek phrase meaning ‘Red Sea’?

Eritrea

(Erythra Thalassa)

5.

What is the Cornish place-name prefix that means hamlet, village or farmstead and which occurs at the start of many Cornish village names?

Tre-

6.

“Lonely rivers flow / To the sea, to the sea / To the open arms of the sea / Lonely rivers sigh / ‘Wait for me, wait for me’ / I'll be coming home, wait for me” is a verse from which much-recorded pop song written in the 1950s?

Unchained Melody

(a hit for The Righteous Brothers and Jimmy Young amongst many others)

7.

Currently a speech coach with the McGuire Programme who had the second best-selling single in the UK between 2001 and 2010 behind Anything is Possible by Will Young?

Gareth Gates

(the McGuire Programme helps stutterers, a problem from which Gates suffered – Gates’ best-selling single was Unchained Melody) 

8.

Which 18th century American statesman and founding father served under George Washington as the first US Secretary of the Treasury laying down the principles for the American financial system as well as establishing the national bank?  He also founded The New York Post newspaper. (surname provides the anagram letter)

Alexander Hamilton

9.

Which famous British actor has played a wide range of parts including many for the same British film director including: Herbert Pocket, Prince Faisal, Colonel Nicholson and Professor Godbole? (surname provides the anagram letter)

Alec Guinness

(the director being David Lean and the films: Great Expectation, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge Over the River Kwai and A Passage to India)

10.

The tune Pelo Telefone, recorded for the first time in 1917, is the still the most popular tune for accompanying which type of dance?

Samba

and the celebrity is England manager ....

G(areth) Southgate