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1. You see 23 Olympic gold medals framed on the wall, and you realise you are the guest of a famous athlete. Who is it?
2. You spot eight photos of different weddings on the wall, all featuring your hostess as the bride. One of the bridegrooms appears in two of the pictures! You realise that your gin-and-tonic is being poured by whom?
3. This one is an al fresco party: guests are sitting about under the trees while a string quartet is playing music by Rossini. Some people are enjoying a fondue and others are nibbling at cheese platters. Everyone is sipping apple juice. Your host has a bow in his hand and a quiverful of bolts over his shoulder. He is trying to persuade some of the guests to let him shoot an apple off their heads. Whose party are you attending?
4. You are handed a glass of Chateau Margaux. You notice a gun cabinet containing shotguns and hunting rifles. On the coffee table are a couple of first editions of his novels, autographed by your host. What name has he written in them?
5. The party is being held in an artist's studio. Your host tells his model, who is wearing a turban, that she can drop the pose and join the party, but asks her to take off his wife's pearl earring and give it to him for safekeeping. You realise you are privileged to be having a Jenever with which artist?
6. Your host removes a golf club from the coffee table to make room for the punch bowl. He casually remarks: "I hit two golf balls on the moon with that club. They're still there!" You realise that you are talking to which astronaut?
7. You are a teetotaller, so you ask if it is possible to have tea instead of a beer. Your host obligingly hands you a cup of Earl Grey. As you add some sugar, you notice that the spoon is bent. You realise that you are a guest of which "magical" entertainer?
8. You notice with some misgiving that your host already seems somewhat glassy-eyed and unsteady on his feet, even though the party has scarcely begun. He tells you he is a painter and proudly shows you a canvas with drips and splashes of paint all over it. He insists on making you a present of the "picture". On the way home, you throw it into a dumpster. Beeeg mistake! You could be a millionaire now if you had only kept whose work?
9. Your hostess notices you looking at a framed Nobel Prize medal and citation hanging on the wall. "I won the prize for discovering this! It's called radium. Isn't it pretty?" she says, taking a glass test tube out of her pocket. In the tube you see a blue-green fluorescent substance. It is indeed very pretty. Who is your distinguished hostess?
10. Your host is wearing one white sequinned glove, and he has a very peculiar way of walking: he seems to be walking forward, but he is actually moving backward, with a gliding motion. A chimpanzee named Bubbles follows him around. You realise that you are the guest of which musical superstar?
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