Who?

1 Who born Pauline Matthews became the first white British singer to sign for the Motown record label?

2 Who was voted The Most Glamorous Woman Ever by the women’s magazine Journal?

3 Who at school was nicknamed Snobby Roberts?

4 Who was the first woman to own her own film studio?

5 He’s the ace, he’s amazing, he’s the strongest, he’s the quickest, he’s the best. Who is he?

6 Who was the high school sweetheart of Clarke Kent in Smallville?

7 Who in a popular sitcom live at 19 Riverbank Road?

8 Penned by Timothy White, who is the subject of the biography Catch A Fire?

9 Who stood down as Leader of the Liberal Party in 1999?

10 Who wore a Chelsea shirt in an infamous bedroom romp with Antonio de Sancha?

11 Who born in Venice in 1725 has been played on film by Tony Curtis, Vincent Price and Donald Sutherland?

12 Who eloped with James de Barge in 1984 and divorced him seven months later?

13 Who flew in a plane called Jason?

14 Who sailed from Genoa in 1860 with 1000 followers known as the Red Shirts?

15 Who was billed as The Lazy Comic early in his entertainment career?

16 Who was described as a bold and merry slut in the diaries of Samuel Pepys?

17 Who penned the autobiography Under No Illusion?

18 Which famed astronomer was asteroid 2602 named after?

19 Who was nicknamed Hollywood’s Dark Prince?

20 Who played DCI Wise in Cracker?

21 Who launched a television career after serving as Mayor of Cincinnati?

22 Who provided lead vocals for the band Them and went on to even greater success in his solo career?

23 Who famously escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965?

24 Who in the Bible lived to the age of 969?

25 Who was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?

26 Who, a former First Lady of the Philippines went on trial for bribery and embezzlement in 1990?

27 Who published his Theory of Relativity in 1916?

28 Who was the first Jamaican singer to top the UK singles charts?

29 Who has a tombstone inscription that reads, The Best is Yet to Come?

30 Who wrote The Saint series of books?

31 Who emphasised a speech at the United Nations conference in 1960 by banging his shoe on the podium?

32 Who created the Polo fashion label?

33 Who was the bride at the first British royal wedding screened on live TV in colour?

34 Who stood trial for the murder of Ronald Goldman?

35 Which entertainer penned the autobiography Laughter In The Rain?

36 Who tipped a bucket of water over John Prescott at the 1998 Brit Awards?

37 Who is the subject of a statue located in front of the British Embassy in Washington DC?

38 Who with the vital statistics of 40-21-35 was born Vera Jayne Palmer?

39 Who played Uncle Fester in the 1991 film version of the Addams Family?

40 Who did Dan Aykroyd play in the film Chaplin?

Answers

1 Kiki Dee

2 Grace Kelly

3 Margaret Thatcher

4 Lucille Ball

5 Dangermouse

6 Lana Lang

7 Victor and Margaret Meldrew

8 Bob Marley

9 Paddy Ashdown

10 David Mellor

11 Casanova

12 Janet Jackson

13 Amy Johnson

14 Giuseppe Garibaldi

15 Max Bygraves

16 Nell Gwynne

17 Paul Daniels

18 Patrick Moore

19 Walt Disney

20 Ricky Tomlinson

21 Jerry Springer

22 Van Morrison

23 Ronnie Biggs

24 Methuselah

25 Harold Pinter

26 Imelda Marcos

27 Albert Einstein

28 Desmond Dekker

29 Frank Sinatra

30 Leslie Charteris

31 Nikita Khrushchev

32 Ralph Lauren

33 Princess Anne

34 OJ Simpson

35 Neil Sedaka

36 Danbert Nobacon

37 Winston Churchill

38 Jayne Mansfield

39 Christopher Lloyd

40 Mack Sennett