What links .....

[Malcopool]

.....Clarrie in "The Archers", US female Ambassador to Ghana, Ilium, mathematician who secretly claimed that it still moved and Russian dancer?

[jackthehat]

Just so's were clear;
Clarrie - Grundy married to Eddie;
US female ambassador to Ghana - Shirley Temple Black (most likely);
Ilium - Largest bone of the pelvic girdle; alternative name for Troy;
Mathematician - Galileo;
Russian Dancer - any of these http://en.wikipedia.o...ussian_ballet_dancers

Is there a specific thread or theme to this puzzle ?

[jackthehat]

*we're

[Malcopool]

Thanks. It is from a section from the Bridgnorth African Project current quiz and is just as it was written - "What links Clarrie, etc".
One of the questions in the section that I have answered is "What links Rembrandt, Sir Terry Pratchett and Sarah Waters?" - answer Nightwatch.

[jackthehat]

Okay.........
Grundy
Nijinsky
Galileo
and Troy were Racehorses who won the Irish Derby.
Shirley Temple was in the film The Seabiscuit (1949) which was about the famous depression-era American Horse.

Good enuff............? :o)

[costacurta]

Grundy, Nijinsky, Galileo, Troy and Shirley Heights all won the Epsom derby

[jackthehat]

No cigar for me, then.............? :o(

[Malcopool]

Many thanks to all of you - I like the last one best!