Private Eye

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1. Among the founding fathers of “Private Eye” were Richard Ingrams, Christopher Booker, Willie Rushton and Paul Foot. Where did they first meet? They were at school together at Shrewsbury They were all members of the “Footlights” troupe at Cambridge University They did their national service together in Germany They worked together on the staff of “Punch”

2. Who is the supposed proprietor of the magazine? Emmanuel Strobes Lord Gnome Sir Basil Nardly-Stoads Spiggy Topes

3. Which politician was satirized as “Baillie Vass” in “Private Eye” during the 1960s? Harold Macmillan George Brown Harold Wilson Sir Alec Douglas-Home

4. Barry Humphries and Nicholas Garland contributed a comic strip to the “Eye” from 1963 to 1974. What was the name of its Australian hero? Barry McKenzie Chuck Chunder Bruce Ocker Fred Kelly

5. What did the Labour MP Tom Driberg contribute to the magazine, using the pseudonym Tiresias? parliamentary gossip the crossword literary criticism cartoons

6. Mrs Wilson’s Diary, Heathco, Dear Bill, The Secret Diary of John Major, ___________. What comes next in this series? The Daily Torygraph Funny Old World The Nursery Times St Albion’s Parish News

7. What is the “HP Sauce” column concerned with? Readers’ letters Celebrity gossip Parliament and politics Food and drink

8. Who is the Eye’s resident poet? E. J. Thribb Dave Spart Ron Knee Sid Bonkers

9. Who is regularly referred to in “Private Eye” as “Brenda”? Queen Elizabeth II Margaret Thatcher Cherie Blair Victoria Beckham

10. Who is credited with penning such romantic serials as “Heir of Sorrows” and “Love in the Saddle”? Barbara Carthorse Rose Garden Millie Boon Sylvie Krin