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1. Rumour has it that which English king met a grisly end involving a red-hot poker while he was a prisoner in Berkeley Castle in 1327 thanks to the machinations of his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer?
2. Rumour has it that which Roman emperor planned to appoint his favourite horse, Incitatus, as consul and actually did make him a priest?
3. Rumour has it that which celebrated English explorer, poet and courtier performed an extraordinary act of gallantry when he laid his own cloak over a muddy puddle so that queen Elizabeth I would not have to dirty her shoes by wading through it?
4. Rumour has it that which American founding father was something of a vandal when he was young, willfully attacking a favourite tree belonging to his father?
5. Rumour has it that which political activist deliberately threw herself in front of the king's horse, Amber, during the running of the Epsom Derby in 1913?
6. Rumour has it that famed Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra VII committed suicide with the help of which type of snake?
7. Rumour has it that celebrated playwrite William Shakespeare disliked his wife, Anne Hathaway, so much by the time he died that he almost completely wrote her out of his will, leaving most of his estate to their eldest daughter Susanna and only making one bequest to Anne in his will, consisting of some unspecified furniture and which specific household object?
8. Rumour has it that, following injuries he received in a duel, which Danish astronomer was fitted with a prosthetic nose made of silver or gold?
9. Rumour has it that which comic English writer was a Nazi sympathiser who agreed to record a series of humourous addresses for the German propaganda ministry to be broadcast to Britain in June 1941?
10. Rumour has it that former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, fled to Hawaii with her husband, leaving 7,500 what behind her in Malacanang Palace?
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