Just a bit of fun: Names quiz

DON YOUR thinking cap to tackle these questions from successful quiz team The Diggle and Delph Donkeys.

See if you can work out who these people are – they all have a place in their name:

  1. Former England cricket captain who played for Lancashire
  2. English actress who was married to David McCullum and Charles Bronson
  3. Chirpy actress of screen/tv best known for Carry On films
  4. The first U.S. President to be assassinated
  5. U.S. actress of the 1930s known as the Blonde Bombshell
  6. One half of a well- loved comedy duo
  7. Famous admiral who lost an eye and arm in battle
  8. Small northern comic famous for long running Radio show
  9. One of the female presenters of Rip Off Britain
  10. English comedian off tv/radio who broadcast continually for over 50 years

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Answers

  1. Mike Atherton
  2. Jill Ireland
  3. Barbara Windsor
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Jean Harlow
  6. Eric Morecombe
  7. Horatio Nelson
  8. Jimmy Clitheroe
  9. Angela Rippon
  10. Charlie Chester