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26/11/2018 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 everyday product, 80 years old this month, is marketed with the taglines ‘Pim! Pam! Pum!’ in Spain, ‘Riks! Raks! Poks!’ in Finland and ‘Knap! Knetter! Knak!’ to Afrikaans speakers in South Africa?

Rice Krispies

2.

Which capital city has, reputedly, a population of just over 57,000 and contains the palace of the country’s ruler, Princess Ozma?

Emerald City

(from the Wizard of Oz books)

3.

In 1812 Lord Byron wrote these lines in his narrative poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: “Dull is the eye that will not weep to see / Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed.” The removal of what was he referring to?

Elgin Marbles

(and their removal by Lord Elgin from Greece to the British Museum)

4.

What name was given by Edward Fitzgerald to a collection of Persian-language poems each of which consisted of four lines?

Rubaiyat

(as in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which Fitzgerald famously translated into English)

5.

In 1704 the peer Charles Boyle produced a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. Boyle’s Earldom was named after which Irish town?

Orrery

(whence the name of the mechanical model)

6.

What was the name of the coach service company that was formed in 1930 and operated services between London and Home Counties towns up to 30 miles away? The brand name is still used today for certain London commuter-belt bus services. 

Green Line

(Coaches Limited)

7.

What is the name of the Manchester community radio station based in Levenshulme that has a target broadcast area of south, central and east Manchester?

ALL FM

(‘ALL’ stands for Ardwick, Longsight and Levenshulme)

8.

Which 1955 film tells the story of a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favoured brother? Both the film’s lead actor and its director were nominated for Oscars whilst actress Jo Van Fleet won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.

East of Eden

9.

The penguin species of birds of the southern hemisphere was named by European sailors because of their resemblance to the last descendants of the northern hemisphere’s Pinguinus species, which became extinct in Britain around 1850. What were these last descendants called? 

Great auk

10.

Which northern Spanish city derives its current name from its Roman name, Caesaraugusta?

Zaragoza

 

and the celebrity is singer....

George Ezra