Glee's English Quiz

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It's St George's day, and the nation's flag manufacturers and brewing conglomerates want us to celebrate by making every pub a living hell of burgundy-faced cretins in red and white furry hats bellowing the wrong words to Jerusalem, like St Patrick's day redesigned by the White Stripes.

So what better way could there be to toast Turkish mercenary St George, than raising a glass to some true English heroes?

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    Which English film icon was born in South Africa as Joel Solomon Cohen where he was a top ladies' hairdresser?

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    Which classic English fantasist was born in the Orange Free State to a pair of German Baptists?

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    Which wartime favourite did their patriotic duty by boasting Italian citizenship?

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    What nationality was England's wet-footed monarch King Canute?

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    Wildly uneven toff actor Richard E. Grant not only pretends to be drunk on film, he pretends to be English. Where was he born?

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    Spot the quintessentially English humourist of Hungarian Jewish descent.

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    Because being born in Wolverhampton or Basildon wouldn't have been nearly flamboyant enough, where did monarch of English pop Freddie Mercury arrange to be born?

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