h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's really great, thanks you're taking so much of your time to do it . Where did you get te idea from ?

I can't honestly remember, Bel. I was posting them on BBCi Messageboards for a year or so before I came here. There are a couple of others lurking around on other h2g2 quiz threads - I can't re-use them here as the answers have been posted. Let me know if you want links to them.

Icy (aka. Eagle Eye)

4. Dr Goebbels

10. Dr Finley

14- Holliday

Hi Chips,

You can have 10. FINLAY, but not 4. GOEBBELS, as there's only one B in the clue. I am looking for someone very evil, though, if that helps.

Bel, 14. Doc HOLLIDAY is correct.

Icy (aka. Eagle Eye)

11 - Jenner

Oh bother ! I had Doc. Holiday spelt with just one L and the web agreed with me the first day I looked at it... I see it also agrees with the two L version, but I was looking under seven letter words...

Well done Bel.

Hi Bel,

11. JENNER is correct, of course.

Icy

15 - Murphy ?

No idea whether he was a doctor, just know 'Murphy's law'

Ok... How's about :

02 = HARVEY

( The US Pet food brand)

Popa

I don't know how I missed this one, I've looked for him a few times.

04 = FU MANCHU

Hi Bel,

Murphy's law came from Edward A. Murphy, an American engineer

But you can have that one, as there were plenty of famous Dr. Murphys:

William Parry Murphy - nobel prize winner in 1934 (anaemia),
John Benjamin Murphy, US surgeon, inventor of the Murphy drip, and
Joseph Edward Murphy - another Nobel prize winner (first kidney transplant)

Oddly, I had another answer - a very famous British surgeon (for no extra points).


Popa, 4. FU MANCHU is correct.

2. HARVEY is also correct, but I was thinking of William Harvey, who discovered blood circulation.

It pays to consider pet-food brands though - you will tend to win a lot.

Icy (aka. Eagle Eye)

Waggalot too...

A couple of clues to clear up numbers 18, 20 and 25...

In no particular order, I am looking for:

* a supervillain;
* the author of a 1972 best-seller;
* a bandleader, who presides over mayhem.

Hope this helps,

Icy (aka Eagle Eye)

18 = COMFORT

25 = TEETH

Hopefully, that only leaves No. 20.

I was trying to squeeze Lex Luthor (or just stretch Luthor) into one of those, but I guess that'll not work, the letters aren't even there:

That's me for tonight.

Popa

I wonder if I've finally found (hopefully) the last Doctor, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s character in the 2002 film Spiderman.

20 = OCTOPUS

You certainly have, Popa. Dr Octopus, the Marvel comics supervillain.

Congratulations!

That concludes Eagle Eye Challenge #5. A few spices still going in EE3, and I'll be back next week with a new challenge.

Icy (aka Eagle Eye)

Hey, thanks for doing that quiz.

Why, it was almost fun ()

Seriously, it was very good !