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Famous professors, real & fictional

Can you name these famous real & fictional professors from the clues?

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Last updated: July 2, 2016

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Real Professors
Scottish scientist who patented the first telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
British paleopathologist and presenter of 'Ice Age Giants'	Alice Roberts
US secretary of state 1997-2001	Madeleine Albright
Wrote 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'	Maya Angelou
Wrote 'Ragtime', 'Billy Bathgate' and 'The March'	E. L. Doctorow
Biologist and outspokien atheist	Richard Dawkins
Theoretical physicist born in Ulm	Albert Einstein
Reductionist philosopher who wrote 'What's It Like To Be A Bat?'	Thomas Nagel
Co-creator of Multi-User Dungeon or MUD1	Richard Bartle
US Supreme Court's 112th justice	Elena Kagan
Developed the 'Big bang' theory	Stephen Hawking

Fictional Professors
Oracular avian bookend in 'Bagpuss'	Professor Yaffle
Simpsons character who'll 'make you laugh, and make you think'	Professor Frink
Character of series of books that Norman Hunt wrote over 50 years	Professor Theophilus Branestawm
He bet he could train Eliza Doolittle to pass as a duchess	Professor Henry Higgins
He did it in the library with the dagger	Professor Plum
Leader of the X-Men	Professor Charles Xavier
Goes round St Mystere solving puzzles	Professor Layton
Indiana Jones' dad	Professor Henry Jones Sr.
Sci-fi rom-com professor portrayed by both Jerry Lewis and Eddie Murphy	The Nutty Professor
Fry's great great great great grandnephew in Futurama	Hubert Farnsworth
And his rival	Wornstrom
Oldest of the professors in Pokémon named after a tree	Professor Oak