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hobbitomm ([personal profile] hobbitomm) wrote2006-12-03 10:41 am

Answers!

Who or what…. And what links them?

1:said…. “How is Worcestershire? Is it still the same between us? Do you still use television, to make you fall asleep?"
A: Clifford T Ward, 'Home thoughts from Abroad'

2: said.. “Just cos she dances go-go, don’t make her a ho.”
A: Wyclef Jean, 'Perfect Gentleman'

3: was the Oxford Don, and protégé of John of Gaunt partially responsible for the First Bible in English.
A: John Wycliffe, 14th Century Theologian and Heretic

4: … was the fictional head of the Cornish CID?
A: Det. Chief Superintendant Wycliffe (fictional sleuth)

5: ..was a bachelor boy?
A: Cliff Richards, 60's pin up, tennis freak, and embarressing crumbly

6: was the posthumous ‘overarching’ masterpiece of the I. Kingdom?
A: Okay, this was the cryptic one. Clifton Suspension Bridge. Build posthumously, designed by Isembard Kingdom Brunel, it is, effectively, an arch OVER a bridge ;)

7: … was the Boston Postman who was next to the Norm?
A:Cliff Clavin. Character in 'Cheers'. He sat perpetually next to 'Norm'

8:… ‘The Grinder’ who was the first to televisisual 147?
A: Cliff Thorburn. Snooker Player, first to compile a televised maximum break

9… ‘The Fair Rosamund’?
A: Rosamund Clifford, Mistress of Henry II

10… is a village just outside Durham, with a church, St Mary’s, which is a daughter church of the parish of St Oswald?
A: Shincliffe