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1. Which H.E. Bates novel (and its sequels) inspired a 1990s British TV comedy drama series set in Kent starring David Jason and Catherine Zeta-Jones?
2. Russell Thorndike wrote about which character, also known as Captain Clegg and "The Scarecrow"?
3. Which actress lived at Smallhythe Place near Tenterden in Kent during the early twentieth century?
4. Which journalist, presenter and satirist, renowned for his series of interviews with former US president Richard Nixon, was born in Tenterden in Kent?
5. Which Irish singer and political activist bought Davington Priory, on the outskirts of Faversham in Kent, during the 1980s?
6. Which surreal British comedian used the title "Me:Moir" for the first volume of his memoirs, published while he was living in Kent?
7. The poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her author and diplomat husband Harold Nicolson created which garden in Kent, now looked after by the National Trust?
8. Which television and radio presenter, originally from Northern Ireland, has lived in Sevenoaks in Kent for many years and set up a cancer charity after the death of her daughter Caron Keating?
9. Which member of the Eurovision Song Contest winning group "Bucks Fizz" was born Rita Maria Crudgington and lived in Ightham in Kent for many years?
10. Which major English novelist died at Gads Hill Place in Higham near Rochester on the anniversary of a railway accident he had been involved in at Staplehurst, also in Kent?
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