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I'm a Celeb - 30/09/19 - Questions

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1.

The problem-solving principle that ‘When presented with competing hypotheses that make the same predictions, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions’ is widely known as what?

2.

What identical word is used to mean the largest part of the hip bone and also what the Greeks called Troy?

3.

Which London Football League Club, the second oldest behind Fulham, has spent just one season in the top tier (1962/63)?  Before they adopted their current name they were named after the London district of Clapton.

4.

Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film, Another Country, was loosely based on the early life of the spy Guy Burgess.  Who played Burgess both on stage and screen? (surname provides the anagram letter)

5.

Which famous painting was summarised in the artist’s wife’s notes as “a lunch counter late in the day with 3 figures – one of whom had a beak-shaped nose”?

6.

Which is the only landlocked country in South East Asia?

7.

Which company with their headquarters in Leeds were started by the Asquith family of butchers from Knottingley?  The company’s current (i.e. September 2019) CEO is Roger Burnley.

8.

Which song includes these lyrics: “She smiled at me on the subway / She was with another man / But I won't lose no sleep on that / 'Cause I've got a plan”?

9.

If you mixed lime juice, sea salt and a fruit whose name is derived from the Aztec word for ‘testicle’ what would you get?

10.

By population size which is the smallest capital city in the whole of the North, Central and South American landmass?

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