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

This is an interactive game, in which you have to identify the famous person from the "doppelganger" name.

When you solve it, you post another doppelganger for someone else to solve.

So how do you create a doppelganger? It's easy-ish, just follow these steps:

1. Think of a famous person (say "Julie Andrews")

2. Think of two more famous people, one who shares the person's first name (say "Julie Christie") and one who shares the person's second name (say "Eamonn Andrews").

3. The doppelganger name is the new first name and the new second name ("Eamonn Christie")

So I post "Eamonn Christie" and you have to work out the answer "Julie Andrews".

Still with me? Never mind, you'll soon pick it up.

Let's get cracking with an easy one:


Lionel Curtis

Tony Curtis and Lionel Blair = Tony Blair,yeah!

I'll let someone else have a go at posting one Icy, could take me a while to think of one!?

I was stuck with Lionel Richie - glad you solved it, Arty

Come on Arty, I didn't expect to have to convene the Rules and Ethics Committee so soon.

I'll post one, but I do expect solvers to be ready with a new doppelganger of their own

I forgot to mention in post 1, that speeling is not important, so long as the name sounds similar.


Ray Naseem Hamed

Well, I'm probably wrong, but I think it's Prince Charles

(Ray Charles, Prince Naseem Hamid)

The good news is: Price Charles is correct, Bel.

The bad news is: it's your turn

I'll post an easy one while we're waiting, Bel:

Denzel Clooney

I'm owed a turn Icy so I'll post in B'elanas absence. I hope I've got this right!
John Coltrane

Denzel Washington and George Clooney= George Washington
John Coltrane

Robbie Williams

David Dodd

Daryl Hannah ?

just in case I'm right


Martin Chaplin

Hi Bel,

No it wasn't Daryl Hannah. It's a well-known UK politician. To be honest, I've never heard of Daryl Dodd or David Hannah either

Is yours "Charlie Sheen"?

Yes, Charlie Sheen is right. To be honest, I've never haerd of anybody named Dodd before, so I googled it, and I got a few Dodds to choose from. It looks, as if my choice was wrong
Too tired right now to try again, though.

Ken Livingstone

Norah Baker

Tom Jones.

Zandra Kemp

Gary Rhodes

Ronnie Lawley

Sue Barker

Arnold Powell

Robert Palmer

Victoria Hassellhoff

David Beckham (if I've worked this game out...)

So I should have

Graham Regina.