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Williams nossy Send a noteboard - 10/02/2012 01:38:53 PM
This brainteaser is about people whose first name is William, some of whom are best known as Bill. Try to identify them all.

1. English playwright whose plays include Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It.

2. US computer scientist and businessman who, in 1975, founded Microsoft Corporation with Paul Allen.

3. The forty-second president of the United States, the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to serve two full terms in the White House.

4. British poet (1770-1850) who wrote "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills".

5. What was the nickname given to William Cody, an American who managed the travelling Wild West Show?

6. English Quaker (1644-1718 ) and believer in religious toleration, who founded the American colony of Pennsylvania.

7. American musician whose recordings of "Rock Around the Clock" and "Shake, Rattle & Roll" were among the earliest rock ’n’ roll hits.

8. English reformer who was instrumental in abolishing slavery in the British Empire.

9. Pianist and band leader, nicknamed "Count", who formed his own jazz band in 1935.

10. English printer who in 1474-75 printed the first book in English.
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Williams - 10/02/2012 01:38:53 PM 747 Views
Answers - 10/02/2012 01:42:55 PM 415 Views
My answers - 8 - 10/02/2012 02:05:46 PM 401 Views
10 - 10/02/2012 02:38:13 PM 578 Views
I knew the first six. - 10/02/2012 03:38:10 PM 381 Views
All but the last three *NM* - 10/02/2012 04:04:09 PM 174 Views
7; should have been 8. - 10/02/2012 04:40:48 PM 463 Views
I thought this was about the Formula 1 team. (8/10) - 11/02/2012 09:57:23 AM 484 Views
9, though I shall argue the incorrectness of number six. - 11/02/2012 02:03:20 PM 372 Views
It was however a colony located in America. - 11/02/2012 03:16:53 PM 387 Views

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