There's a famous TV puppet in England called Basil Brush - A mischievous fox. Ivan Owen was famously the creator and actor of this TV show, if you're looking for an O, appreciate it may be somewhat obscure to those across the pond.
There are a lot of questions in this series and quizzes like it on notable figures, on tennis players. Is tennis popular elsewhere? Because I've met people who watch just about every other sport out there, but I don't think I've ever met a single person who actively pays any attention to tennis.
You Kant believe in hocus-pocus
I'm talking seriously: while many letters are one of two short, "I" is 5 short!!!
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Then at last I learnt I had been wrong all along about his name.
Thanks!