Bifurcated Trivia

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

(I was asked for this. Don't hate. Also, I would appreciate if respondents would be good enough not to insert their own trivia questions.)

This one is in two parts. Questions 1-5 are about groups of things. In questions 6-10, I will give a description of a well-known fictional character to be guessed.

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1. What do the following words have in common? diamond, checkers, socks, pumpkin, lump.

2.  What do the following actors have in common? Stephen Fry, Danny Trejo, Mark Wahlberg, Nick Nolte, Robert Mitchum.

3.  Canada has had 12 of these, the UK 8, New Zealand 5, and the USA 4. What are they?

4.  Where can you find a man, a rabbit, a witch, a toad, and a tree that aren't really there?

5.  What do the following male names have in common?  Christian, George, Bernard, Charles, Leonard.

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6. Father of a flower girl, he's a common dustman and has been described as 'the most original moralist in England'.

7.  'His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under he left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird.  He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham - plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling.'  

8. '...stumping along with great yellow boots on his thick legs, and charging through grass and rushes like a cow going down to drink. He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright and his face was as red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.'

9.  '...a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long, white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot without a single speck of colour about him anywhere...with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere.'

10. 'Certainly good looking. That black hair falling over the right eyebrow. But there is something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold.' Also scarred on the right cheek and the back of the right hand.

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Boru
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Edit: Web-searching is not only allowed but encouraged. If you come up with the correct answers via Googling (or using any other search engine), you will NOT be accused of cheating.

Still working on the first 5 - 

6.  Arthur Doolittle from Pygmalion

7.  Long John Silver from Treasure Island

8.  Tom Bombadil of left out of the LOTR movies fame.

9.  Bram Stoker's Dracula

10.  Ian Fleming's James Bond

That was a damned good start!

Boru