Did we even HAVE this many King Williams? ;)

[hobbitomm]

Who was....

1) The first Duke of St Albans (c 1680)?
2) The only man on either side who could lose the War in an afternoon?
3) Owner of a chain of model shops? Or is coffee preferable to other hot beverages?
4) Hairoun (‘Land of the Blessed’), or the patron of Valencia, vinters and brickmakers?
5) Famously banned from the Bluewater shopping centre, but more popular at Universities.
6) Perhaps Father Christmas to Tom Cruise’s ex?
7) Duck! Oh no. He’s male!
8) Perhaps another duck (1986), or perhaps a comment of surprise at the level of force in a semi cockney?
9) The villain of Much Ado about Nothing. Or perhaps a castle component?
10) Originally synonymous with cake, but asked to be renamed (transliterated?), in order to sound more British.

And what links them?

Comments

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

Ok, Battenberg.
Which is what I meant to say.

Though personally I'd more honestly describe British Royalty in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as Seedy Cake.

Mmmm. Cake. Must go have breakfast...

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Batternberg got changed to Mountbatten. So nyah!

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Quite so.

So... You have

7:Drake
10: Prince Louis Battenberg/Lord Louis Mountbatten or his son, the other Lord Mountbatten (of Burma). As luck would have it, either option works just fine for this quiz :).

Care to try and get anymore based on the link? ;)

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't know. Aparantly Francis changed his name to Drake, so I'm going out on a limb that the link is people who changed their names for all sorts of spurious reasons. Or something.

BTW - Fruitcake (which I am eating right now for breakfast) is equally applicable to my previous statement.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

No. Not the connection. Well. It is for some of them, but it's not the *main* connection ;)