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1.

What is the name of the fictitious area of countryside rife with witchcraft and superstition that features in a number of Thomas Hardy’s novels – especially The Return of the Native?  Gustav Holst further immortalised it by using it as the title for a tone poem dedicated to Hardy.

2.

What is the name of the nearest racecourse to the centre of Dublin?  It plays host to the Irish Champion Stakes each September?

3.

Who was the lead singer of the band Miami Sound Machine? (surname provides the anagram letter)

4.

What food product used to be advertised with the slogan “It's not for girls!”?

5.

Named after the Duke of Westminster’s Cheshire country house which garden square in London was declared in 2016 the most expensive place to live in Britain with an average property price of £17m?

6.

What was the name of the secret societies organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions?  The men who belonged often disguised themselves as women before they attacked.

7.

In alphabetical sequence of their names which national capital is furthest apart from the country of which it is the capital?

8.

Which product, first made by the French family business, Lacroix, in the 17th century, saw a massive increase in its sales when it started to be made from rice paper in 1865?

9.

Irish playwright, Sean O’Casey, wrote a series of plays called the ‘Dublin Trilogy’.  The Shadow of a Gunman and The Plough and the Stars were two of these. Which was the third?

10.

Hawaii is the largest island in the US. What is the second largest?  It lends its name to one of the largest species of mammal native to the US.

...and now identify the celebrity whose first name and surname makes up an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers