Can you answer the Teesside celebrities questions from Pointless?

BBC teatime game show Pointless asked contestants if they could identify 12 Teesside and County Durham celebrities in Tuesday night’s episode, January 31. Can you do better than the contestants?

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Q1: Football manager who won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest (BC)

Q2: Director of the films Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator (RS)

Q3: Comedian and actor who appeared alongside Paul Whitehouse on the TV series Gone Fishing (BM)

Q4: Poet who wrote The Cry of the Children which decried the child labour practices of her time (EBB)

Q5: Singer songwriter who won The X Factor in 2012 and had a UK number one hit with Impossible (JA)

Q6: Actor who played Mavis Wilton in Coronation Street from 1971 to 1997 (TB)

Q7: Magician who performed alongside Debbie McGee on his TV series which ran from 1979 to 1994 (PD)

Q8: Naval captain who explored the islands now known as New Zealand on his ship Endeavour (JC)

Q9: Former presenter on BBC Breakfast, she began hosting her own programme on Channel 4 in 2020 (SM)

Q10: Politician who resigned as Prime Minister during the Suez crisis in the 1950s (AE)

Q11: Comedian known by the stage name Lost Voice Guy who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2018 (LR)

Q12: Singer and guitarist who had a UK top 10 single with The Road To Hell (Part 2) (CR)

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