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1. Montana Senator Jon Tester won the senate seat for the Democrats in 2007, and has retained it ever since. In his youth he suffered an accident that throws up a bizarre image resembling an episode in the movie Fargo. What happened to him?
2. Our next character is fictional; not surprisingly, since Edward Lear invented him. In fact I'm not really sure WHAT Lear intended him to be, but we know that he had an Aunt Jobiska, and that he lost this body part in a swimming accident. Can you be more specific as to who Lear was talking about?
3. You all remember the Three Blind Mice, and the Farmer's Wife, who cut off their tails. By contrast John Wayne Bobbitt suffered a more painful accident at the hands of his wife. I'm not going to ask you what she did, but can you remember her name?
4. You'd think that you would need both your feet to operate pretty well if you were going to a top-level cricketer. However this spin bowler for England continued to play for his country when a speed-boat accident while he was swimming led to the loss of four of his toes. Who was this player, whose heyday was the 1960's?
5. Evander Holyfield is one of the great boxing champions, but he is missing a small part of his anatomy. Do you remember what are the circumstances that led to the loss?
6. Somehow you would expect an astronomer and alchemist to be a man of thought not actions. But while still young, an alcohol-fuelled duel led to a world famous scientist losing a body part; in this case his nose! Which person was the unfortunate victim?
7. Almost everybody would be able to identify the character who lost his hand to a crocodile. Peter Pan had cut it off and fed it to a crocodile, who had developed such a taste for him that it pursued him as avidly as Hook was chasing Pan. So let's focus on something else; what was the name of the actor who played Hook opposite Robin Williams' adult Peter Pan?
8. I recently saw a play called 'The Cost of Living' starring a sensational young woman named Katy Sullivan was born a bilateral, transfemoral amputee. She has appeared on 'My Name is Earl' and many other roles. Katy , but she has achieved fame as an actress and also as what?
9. An almost-90 year old bridge player was selected to play bridge in the 2017 world championships for Italy -- making him comfortably the oldest player to have competed at this level. 40 years ago he would have been one of the very top rated players in the world, but he does have an unusual missing body part -- a finger from an accident. Who is he?
10. In the movie 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' King Arthur comes to a bridge which he is forbidden to cross. He is forced to fight a duel and cuts off more and more parts of his opponent's body, while his rival claims 'Tis but a scratch!' Who was his opponent?
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