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Who ? What ? Where ?

Our fun, weekly quiz, in which we ask you to figure out people, places and things in the news...

- STEVE BENNETT

WHERE AM I?

● By tradition, the sitting PM visits every year. Margaret Thatcher hated it; David Cameron got told off for trying to help with the dishes and Tony Blair’s son Leo, right, was conceived here.

●I was bought in 1852 for £32,000 – £3.5million in today’s money – and a new castle was built here. I’m worth about £93 million now.

● There’s a 35ft pyramid here in memory of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert.

● I’m where Elizabeth II was at her happiest. Once while out walking nearby, she encountere­d two American tourists who didn’t recognise her. ‘Have you ever met the Queen?’ they asked. ‘I haven’t,’ she replied, then turned to her bodyguard and said: ‘But Dick here meets her regularly.’

M● The late Queen also died here, and I’m about to be opened up to guided tours for the first time, at £100 a pop. WHAT AM I?

● I’ve been around since the 15th Century – yet there’s still no definitive­ly correct way to pronounce my name.

● I’m a baked treat – originally a slice from a much larger Scottish quick bread, but now an individual item. The biggest one of me ever made weighed 22st.

● A cafe on the Devon-Cornwall border offers two different seating areas, depending on how you prefer to eat me.

● Last year, a woman completed a personal mission to eat me in every one of the National Trust’s cafes. But now the heritage body is embroiled in a controvers­y after making me vegan.

WHO AM I? ● I was a window cleaner and pub drummer before finding fame as a comedian.

● I bought Great Yarmouth pier, but alienated locals by saying the resort was ‘full of

overweight people in flip-flops and fat children of all colours and no class’.

●I’m a self-confessed ‘homophobic a ******* ’ – yet had a sexual encounter with a Thai ‘ladyboy’ I picked up in Berlin.

● I once acted as a character witness for a man accused of drug traffickin­g. He got 30 years.

● I said I’d leave Britain if Labour got into power and, sure enough, I emigrated to Dubai after Tony Blair’s victory (well, seven years after, and absolutely nothing to do with a £700,000 tax bill.)

● I’ve just got engaged again, despite my five previous divorces costing me around £60million.

Answers: Balmoral, a scone, Jim Davidson (of whom Benny Hill, left, said: ‘Met Jim Davidson, a gentleman and a fine comedian. Bought all three a drink.’)

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