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24/09/2018 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.

Which English county has a flag that consists of three horizontal Saxon cutlasses on a red background?

Essex

2.

Which famous US family gained their original wealth in the 19th century from fur-trading? They used this wealth to invest in property, particularly in New York where they were nicknamed ‘the landlords of New York’. One of Manhattan’s most famous luxury hotels is, in part, named after them as well as many cinemas across the world.

Astor

(Astoria)

3.

What is the proper name of the flower commonly known as a dragon flower or snapdragon?

Antirrhinum

4.

Which former football league club based on the Wirral and nicknamed the Rakers, holds the record for the oldest player ever to feature in a football league match - that being goalkeeper Neil McBain who was 51 years and 120 days at the time?  The club left the Third Division North in 1951 never to rejoin (unlike the mighty Accrington Stanley!).

New Brighton

5.

Which word used to describe someone who is particularly concise or terse derives from the region of Greece that included the city of Sparta whose inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their blunt and often pithy remarks?

Laconic

6.

Which English synthpop duo, consisting of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, established themselves with their fourth single Sometimes which peaked at number 2 in the charts in 1986?

Erasure

7.

John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday of Gunfight at OK Corral fame was a gambler and gunfighter, as well as a good friend of Wyatt Earp. But what was his profession in everyday life?

Dentist

8.

What is the Russian word meaning ‘delivered messages’?

Izvestia

(the name of one of Russia’s main newspapers)

9.

Which organ of the body has the primary role of filtering blood by removing old red blood cells from circulation?

Spleen

10.

Which Commonwealth capital city has a two-word name meaning ‘muddy confluence’?

Kuala Lumpur

 

 

and the celebrity is ....

Neil Sedaka