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Right guys I need some help from all of you ~~~ Please be honest....

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:43

Please tell me if you know whose name these are when they were babies?

Please do it honestly without www as this is for a quiz I am writing and I need to know if they are too difficult

Thanks

  1. Archibald Alexander Leach =
  1. Terence Alan Patrick Sean Milligan =
  1. Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova =
  1. Maurice Joseph Micklewhite =
  1. David Williams =
  1. Norma Jean Mortensen =
  1. Virginia Katherine McMath =
  1. Sofia Villani Scicolone =
  1. Barbara-Ann Deeks =

  1. Jerome Silberman =

  2. John Christopher Depp II =

  3. Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde =

  4. John Joseph Nicholson =

  5. Richard Walter Jenkins =

  6. Marion Robert Morrison =

  7. David John McDonald =

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Majeika · 02/10/2008 23:44

1 cary grant

Majeika · 02/10/2008 23:45

2 spike milligan

littlelapin · 02/10/2008 23:46

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Plonker · 02/10/2008 23:47
  1. Michael Caine
  1. Marilyn Monroe??
Majeika · 02/10/2008 23:48

9 barbara windsor

NormaStanleyFletcher · 02/10/2008 23:48

LL you name geek!!

Majeika · 02/10/2008 23:49

10 gene wilder

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:49

DEFFO BRILL

Thanks guys

I want average answer to be about 11 or 12 out of 16

When you have googled please don't post corrections on here

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Plonker · 02/10/2008 23:50

LL - i can't compete against that ...

Majeika · 02/10/2008 23:50

16 david tennant

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:52

This is for a team quiz so 8 to 10 people in a team

so do you think the average answer will be between 10 and 12 ?

or are they too hard ?

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mabanana · 02/10/2008 23:52

7 Virginia McKenna? I knew all except 10, 14 and 16

mabanana · 02/10/2008 23:52

7 Virginia McKenna? I knew all except 10, 14 and 16

combustiblelemon · 02/10/2008 23:53

I got 10- same as LL but I missed pesky Helen Mirren.

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:53

no it's not virgina mckenna

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mabanana · 02/10/2008 23:53

Ooh, is 14 Richard thingy who married Liz ? Burton, that's it?

LackaDAISYcal · 02/10/2008 23:55

1 Cary Grant
2 Spike Milligan *
3 ?
4 Michael Caine (?)
5 David Walliams
6 Marilyn Monroe
7 Virginia McKee or Barbara hepburn (?)
8 Sofia Loren *
9 I should know this; I can see her face, but just can't get it!
10 ?
11 Johnny Depp *
12 David Niven *
13 Jack Nicholson *
14 Richard Burton (?)
15 John Wayne
16 ?

the ones marked * are a bit obvious I think.

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:55

yes richard burton

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soph28 · 02/10/2008 23:56

I knew none!

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:57

daisy you have no 7 and 12 wrong

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LackaDAISYcal · 02/10/2008 23:58

although looking at lapins list, maybe david niven not obvious

Majeika · 02/10/2008 23:58

7 GINGER ROGERS

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:58

oh dear soph

do you know any actors actresses with different names that they were born with that are known differently now?

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RTKangaMummy · 02/10/2008 23:59

yes no 7 is ginger rogers

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RTKangaMummy · 03/10/2008 00:01

daisy to be fair to you my DH said the same thing and so it is in there as a sort of decoy/trick question

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