What links?

[mindylou]

Doing a quiz and one round asks what links certain people or words?
1) What links destructive sea wave & sleeping sickness & Russian Imperial Title?
2)What links Mrs Hudson & Dr Who & Dr Who & R2-D2?
3) what links Naughtie & Portillo & Davies & Lee & Sutherland & Smith & Carey?
4) What links Spanish & Polish & Austrian & Bavarian?

[auntflo]

1 words beginning "ts" (tsunami, tsetse fly & tsar)

[chelle7272]

3. All have been judges for the Man Booker Prize

[bibblebub]

2) Baker? Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Kenny Baker - can't think who Mrs Hudson is?

[auntflo]

is she sherlock holmes' housekeeper? in which case baker street?

[bibblebub]

^^^ doh, of course

[bibblebub]

4) Birthplaces of the last 4 non-Italian popes ????

Bavaria - Benedict XVI
Poland - John Paul II
Austria - Pius X
Spain - Alexander VI

but Adrian VI (Dutch) would be in there somewhere ? so maybe a red herring