Ayyyy! Puzzle corner

January 26, 2009 in Ayyyy! with 15 Comments

This week we invite you to cinch up your corsets and swoon for the theme “British Actors in Period Costume”. Have a ponder over the montage below and identify the dashing gentlemen in question.

Answers will be put up on Wednesday morning. In the meantime I will be partaking in a very civilised tea party at my sprawling garden estate.

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15 Responses to “Ayyyy! Puzzle corner”

  1. Bernie January 26, 2009 at 11:27 am #

    Finally something I can sink my teeth into…not literally, of course.

    1. Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess
    2. Ian Gruffuld, Amazing Grace
    3. Clive Owen, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    4. Colin Firth, Pride & Prejudice (BBC Version)
    5. Hugh Grant, Sense & Sensibility
    6. Matthew Macfadyen, Pride & Prejudice (Focus Films)
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    10. James McAvoy, Becoming Jane

  2. Sarah January 26, 2009 at 11:39 am #

    Trick question… they’re ALL Colin Firth. ;)

  3. raincoaster January 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm #

    8 is Alan Rickman, in I don’t know what but he’d better take it off and get over here IMMEDIATELY!

    No hunky Sean Bean? He looked so good in that Sharpe uniform, but I don’t think I see it here.

  4. Dazie January 26, 2009 at 8:16 pm #

    Sarah- you took my answer. :)

  5. Altissima January 26, 2009 at 10:58 pm #

    Is one them Adam Ant? Oh, that’s a shame.

  6. Atari January 27, 2009 at 2:31 am #

    1) Ralph Fiennes in The Duchess
    2) Ioan Gruffudd (omg I love him) in Amazing Grace
    3) Clive Owen in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    4) Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy v. 1.0
    5) Hugh Grant in Sense and Sensibility
    6) Matthew McFadyen as Mr. Darcy v. 2.0
    7) James McAvoy in Becoming Jane
    8) Alan Rickman in Sense and Sensibility
    9) James Purefoy in Vanity Fair
    10) I dunno

  7. Cognac80 January 27, 2009 at 4:10 am #

    # 9 is James Purefoy, Vanity Fair

  8. Cognac80 January 27, 2009 at 4:12 am #

    # 9 is James Purefoy in Vanity Fair (2004) – sorry if this comment shows up more than once.

  9. angela Cox January 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm #

    Okay so my daughter and I will have to hand in our British passports. The hours we spend watching costume dramas ..for the women’s clothes . We couldn’t get one but Alan Rickman must be there and Colin Firth .

  10. MomCat January 27, 2009 at 3:45 pm #

    Delurking to say the only one I got was Alan Rickman in “Sense and Sensibility.” And, for Raincoaster, to reference the picture of Alan Rickman from his role as Valmont in the stage production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” (1987, I think)

    http://rickmanesque.over-blog.com/archive-05-2006.html

    A stunning cad all in white. *swoon*

  11. la vache espagnole January 27, 2009 at 10:54 pm #

    7 is Jeremy Northam – Emma

  12. Gracie08 January 28, 2009 at 5:11 am #

    1 Ralph Fiennes The duches
    2 ian gruffuld out of amazing grace
    3 Clive Owen
    4 Colin Firth
    5 Hugh Grant
    6 Matthew Macfadyen Pride & Prejudice
    7Jeremy Northam Emma
    8 Alan Rickman Sense & Sensibility
    9 James Purefoy
    10 Only 1 I can’t get

  13. raincoaster January 29, 2009 at 5:02 pm #

    Alan Rickman on stage? I think I just fainted!

    I was thinking the picture might have been from Mesmer; the most awful costume drama schlock, but dear god that man is a sexy bitch!

    Seen his tango?

  14. agirl January 30, 2009 at 8:09 pm #

    That is Ioan Gruffudd, but the pic is from the Horatio Hornblower miniseries, from about 10 years ago.

  15. StevieT January 31, 2009 at 5:48 pm #

    No, the pic of Ioan is definitely from Amazing Grace 2007. Horatio never got that old, nor stood upon the deck of a slave ship! ;-)