Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

I'm beginning to think I haven't - I only have a US and Irish connection my Polish and Italian researches have come to nought!

[amateur51]

I DO hope it's harder than your last question - I can then start to really enjoy my new status as a gawping bystander.

likewise I'm sure

[Flay]

Trying to look for an answer when I found this:

What's the difference between a viola and an onion?
No one cries when you chop up an viola.

(Actually it said oboe but I thought that too cruel).

[Anna]

I'm beginning to think I haven't - I only have a US and Irish connection my Polish and Italian researches have come to nought!

Polish? Where did you get Polish from, Arthur B. Rubenstein was born in Brooklyn!
Edit: I thnk there are two people with the same name ........ the Arthur I was looking at scores film music!

[Lateralthinking1]

Galileo........is the right answer.

(Glass - Galileo Galilei; Rubinstein - Symphonic Encounters from Galileo to the Space Age; O'Rourke - the song Galileo)

It is over to you antongould.

[antongould]

the right answer for all the wrong reasons!!!

I'll try an H!

[antongould]

To, hopefully, swiftly fulfill my h'obligation

An H that connects

Kent to Gloucester takes a while?
Means Southern California is a desert?
Karlheinz's second microphonic effect

[Lateralthinking1]

The first bit suggests King Lear. Can't see anything there. Albert Hammond sang "It never rains in Southern California". Is the third a Hammond organ effect?

[antongould]

off and running lat and there is a clue in there.......................

[Lateralthinking1]

Hexham

[antongould]

where I went to school but no another sport

[amateur51]

where I went to school but no another sport

Wally Hammond, English batting great, was born in Kent and began his career at Gloucestershire in 1920, but he was required to wait until 1923 before he could play full time, after his qualification to play for Gloucestershire was challenged.

[antongould]

awesome am as ever

[amateur51]

awesome am as ever

Yay! Good ol' wiki & cricinfo. England have just lost to Pakistan, btw and thus have lost the series

Were Lat's answers correct too, anton?

[antongould]

dear Albert was correct but as it's Saturday I may look for something more exact on the 3rd....