Alphabet associations

[Caliban]

What G unites:

1. A water feature named after an old man;
2. Another water feature named after a younger Englishman who first explored it in the early 17th century;
3. A title which lacked the stars of something similar about 40 years later?

[Norfolk Born]

I expect Ofca will nevertheless still be telling us about the rear-ending...

No need - the threat worked!

[Caliban]

No need - the threat worked!

[mercia]

2. Another water feature named after a younger Englishman who first explored it in the early 17th century

Hudson ....Bay ...... River ......?

[Caliban]

Hudson ....Bay ...... River ......?

Good morning, and Bravo, mercia! Drop the word Bay from that answer, and you got No. 2 Hudson River it is.

[Norfolk Born]

George (Hudson, Bartholomew)?

[Angle]

Henry Hudson, surely. George was the Railway King.

And with that, I disappear to search for free wi-fi in and around Marble Arch.

ADB

Oh, #3: 40 years later or precisely 32 ?

[Caliban]

Henry Hudson, surely. George was the Railway King.

And with that, I disappear to search for free wi-fi in and around Marble Arch.

ADB

Oh, #3: 40 years later or precisely 32 ?

Mercia was right about 2.

As for 3. - no, not 32 years. Not exactly 40 either - maybe 41 or 42 years, depending on which reference work you look at.

Marble Arch? Why you're about 1 mile east of me! If you shout the answer I might hear it

I thought you were coming to London later today - were you here yesterday for all the matrimonial shennanigans?

[mercia]

Lake Mead was named after Elwood Mead who was 78 by the time the lake was formed by the building of the Hoover Dam (I think)

[Caliban]

Lake Mead was named after Elwood Mead who was 78 by the time the lake was formed by the building of the Hoover Dam (I think)

There's a slight trick aspect to Part 1....

Think about it slightly differently.