Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - Celeb - 30/09/19

Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
30/09/2019	I'm a Celebrity....	10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity. The celebrity's surname is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers.	Questions without Answers
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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?	Occam’s razor
2.	What identical word is used to mean the largest part of the hip bone and also what the Greeks called Troy?	Ilium
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.	Leyton Orient
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)	Rupert Everett
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”?	Nighthawks (by Edward Hopper)
6.	Which is the only landlocked country in South East Asia?	Laos
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.	Asda
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”?	You’re Beautiful (by James Blunt)
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?	Guacamole (‘avocado’ is derived from the Aztec word for ‘testicle’)
10.	By population size which is the smallest capital city in the whole of the North, Central and South American landmass?	Belmopan (in Belize with 16,451)
and the celebrity is the Labour MP... (Rebecca) Long-Bailey