This brainteaser is about people whose first name is William, some of whom are best known as Bill. Try to identify them all.
Yes, I know it's a quiz and not a brainteaser! I don't make these up!
1. English playwright whose plays include Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It.
William Shakespeare
2. US computer scientist and businessman who, in 1975, founded Microsoft Corporation with Paul Allen.
Bill Gates
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.
Bill Clinton
4. British poet (1770-1850) who wrote "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills".
William Wordsworth
5. What was the nickname given to William Cody, an American who managed the travelling Wild West Show?
Buffalo Bill
6. English Quaker (1644-1718 ) and believer in religious toleration, who founded the American colony of Pennsylvania.
William Penn
7. American musician whose recordings of "Rock Around the Clock" and "Shake, Rattle & Roll" were among the earliest rock ’n’ roll hits.
Bill Haley
8. English reformer who was instrumental in abolishing slavery in the British Empire.
William Wilberforce
9. Pianist and band leader, nicknamed "Count", who formed his own jazz band in 1935.
Count Basie (William Basie)
10. English printer who in 1474-75 printed the first book in English.
William Caxton
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- 10/02/2012 01:38:53 PM
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- 10/02/2012 01:42:55 PM
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I got the first eight. Then they started becoming extremely obscure. Evidently. 
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- 10/02/2012 06:22:45 PM
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- 10/02/2012 06:22:45 PM
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