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RAV4 Girl | 13:36 Thu 03rd Jul 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Is anyone else doing this quiz? I have everything else answered, right or wrong, (so if anyone wants an answer, please shout), but I just cannot find the answer to 82 - Who was Britains best loved poet who died in his beloved Cornwall in January 1981.

Please help.

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John Betjeman
Ooops sorry he died 1984
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Thanks but according to Wikipedia, John Betjeman died in 19th May 1984......so it can't be, unless the quiz compiler has it wrong...
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Think I'll have to just put something, as I'm exhausted trying to find it....I bet the compilers are looking at this and laughing their heads off.....
this question has been asked before, could be a typing error in the quiz. The answer was given as Sir John Betjeman
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Doubt if it's a typo....I can understand getting the year wrong, but the month as well?
I would go with Betjeman - he was definitely the best loved poet of his time and he loved Cornwall and died there.
So unlikely as it seems the date must be wrong !
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Thanks all....Davethedog, JUNKMAN and shaking. As you all say, I shal just have to go with that and hope I scoop the first prize anyway.

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If you Google it then it comes up with the following:

While on a visit in April 1981, the poet suffered a stroke which ... He died just a month later, on May, 19 at his home in Cornwall with his beloved

However, if you open the link then you realise that where the dots are it goes on to say that he went on with a nurse in attendance, visiting Derbyshire in April 1984....... Possibly the question was set according to this without the person having read the information correctly.

So, am sure it is correct. Hope you win!
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Thanks Tewart.

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