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? Spiggy Topes Emmanuel Strobes Lord Gnome Sir Basil Nardly-Stoads

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

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? Fred Kelly Bruce Ocker Barry McKenzie Chuck Chunder

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

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

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

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

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

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