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.
1. English playwright whose plays include Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It.
Shakespeare
2. US computer scientist and businessman who, in 1975, founded Microsoft Corporation with Paul Allen.
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.
Clinton
4. British poet (1770-1850) who wrote "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills".
Hmm, Yates or Wordsworth, I imagine, but which? I will say Yates.
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.
Penn, and is this not kind of a gimme?
7. American musician whose recordings of "Rock Around the Clock" and "Shake, Rattle & Roll" were among the earliest rock ’n’ roll hits.
Haley
8. English reformer who was instrumental in abolishing slavery in the British Empire.
Hmm, I should know this; IIRC Gladstone was anti-slavery, but I am pretty sure you are thinking of an earlier figure.
9. Pianist and band leader, nicknamed "Count", who formed his own jazz band in 1935.
Basey
10. English printer who in 1474-75 printed the first book in English.
Tyndale
Fie on number four. My biggest conclusion from this quiz is that there have been too many people named William.
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Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Williams
- 10/02/2012 01:38:53 PM
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7; should have been 8. 
- 10/02/2012 04:40:48 PM
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- 10/02/2012 04:40:48 PM
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I got the first eight. Then they started becoming extremely obscure. Evidently. *NM*
- 10/02/2012 06:22:45 PM
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*NM*
- 10/02/2012 06:22:45 PM
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