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Ghost Flashcards

1
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Book quoted from at the start of each chapter

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Ghostwriting - Andrew Crofts

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2
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“I am not I; thou are not he or she; they are not they”

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Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

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3
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Previous ghostwriter, now dead

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Mike James McAra

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4
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Where does the Martha’s Vineyard ferry travel between

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Woods Hole and Vineyard Haven

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5
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Car McAra was driving

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tan coloured Ford Escape

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6
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Ford Escape belongs to

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Martin S Rhinehart

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7
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Where was McAra’s body found?

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Lambert’s Cove

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8
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Where was McAra from?

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Balham

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9
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Agent’s name

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Rick Riccardelli

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10
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Name of former PM

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Adam Peter Bennet Lang

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11
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Head of Rhinehart’s publishing company

A

John Maddox

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12
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Lang’s lawyer

A

Sidney Kroll

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13
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Ghost’s editor

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Roy Quigley

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14
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“What sells a book is …”

A

heart

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15
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What is the Ghost mugged for?

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Senator’s manuscript - One Out Of Many

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16
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Lang’s PA

A

Amelia Bly

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17
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Main town on Martha’s Vineyard

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Edgartown

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18
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Hotel in Edgartown

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Lighthouse View

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19
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Operation Tempest

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Four Brits, seized in Peshawar. One (Ashraf) died under interrogation

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20
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First Mrs Rhinehart

A

On the board of MOMA

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21
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Second Mrs Rhinehart

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Bollywood actress

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22
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Lang’s wife

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Ruth Lang, nee Capel

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23
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Vietnemese housekeepers

A

Dep and Duc - Duc is the man

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24
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Test for a novel or film …

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Seaplane test

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25
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Ex-foreign secretary

A

Richard Rycart

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26
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Rock star Lang’s stayed with on Mustique

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Christy Costello

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27
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Jet owned by …

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Hallington

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28
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Song of Costello’s Lang sings

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Once In A Lifetime, 1977

29
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Where was Lang living in London when he met Ruth?

30
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Where was Lang brought up?

31
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Lang’s parents

A

Father a builder, mother a teacher

32
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Lang’s mother’s book

A

A Thing Of Beauty

33
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Title role at 17

A

Marlowe’s Dr Faustus

34
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What did Lang study at Cambridge

35
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Editorial in Times when Lang steps down

A

Kindly Leave The Stage

36
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Word Lang adds to press release

37
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Director of the Adam Lang Archive Centre in Cambridge

A

Dr Julia Crawford-Jones

38
Q

Widow who saw lights in Lambert’s Cove

A

Annabeth Wurmbrand

39
Q

Martha’s Vineyard reminds Ruth of …

40
Q

Barry’s reading

A

Harry Potter

41
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Where was Adam and Ruth’s wedding?

A

Marylebone Registry OfficeAndy Martin - Best man

42
Q

Honeymood

A

Ruth’s parents’ cottage, Hay on Wye

43
Q

Rhinehart’s Vinery

A

Napa Valley

44
Q

First rule of politics

A

Never lose touch with your base

45
Q

Where does the Ford Escape take The Ghost to?

A

Paul Emmett’s house in Belmont

46
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Security firm at Emmett’s

47
Q

Paul Emmett’s President Emeritus of …

A

Arcadia Institution

48
Q

Arcadia reception attended by Lang

49
Q

Where was Emmett on the 11th and 12th of January?

A

Colorado - Aspen Institute

50
Q

Professor Emmett’s posts

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Harvard (Ruth), Howard T Polk III Professor of Foreign relations

51
Q

Hallington’s CEO

A

Arthur Prussia

52
Q

Airbase in Poland

A

Stare Kiejkuty

53
Q

Torture method used on suspects

A

Waterboarding

54
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What agency is Emmett supposed to be a member of

55
Q

What is on the board of the man waiting at La Guardia

A

Mike McAra

56
Q

Pseudonym used by Ghost at hotel

A

Clive Dixon

57
Q

Rycart’s weakness

58
Q

The Member for Michigan

A

Reginald Giffen - gave up his seat for Lang

59
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What is Lang drinking on the plane?

60
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How much is a Gulfstream four?

61
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How many planes does Hallington have?

62
Q

Lang’s assassin

A

George Arthur Boxer

63
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“Who scorns his own life is lord of yours”

64
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Lang’s funeral

A

Westminster Abbey

65
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Ruth Lang’s title

A

Baroness Lang of Calderthorpe

66
Q

Final line of memoirs

A

Ruth and I look forward to the future, whatever it may hold

67
Q

Where is the book launch

A

Banqueting House

68
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How is Rycart killed

A

Car accident, NYC

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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