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

The title "Icy Top Gear" is an anagram of two related words (both 5 letters).

When you've solved it, your challenge is to solve 20 similar anagrams:

1. A noble tribune
2. A pudgy sunbather
3. An easy name
4. Date human plank
5. Desirable barge
6. Drake lasagne
7. Engineer obtains auras
8. Have moan in it
9. I await pantie
10. Ich bin GI Jane
11. Lie in headwind
12. Mislaid a pasta bank
13. Mr Unkissable
14. National sieve
15. National tinsel
16. On a rainy bike
17. Return a kayak
18. Royal swoon
19. Royal time
20. Who named a bikini


And I'm sure there are online tools which will solve these. Go ahead if you need to, but if you do, please don't share your search results here

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And if you're not into anagrams, then an alternative challenge is to use as many of them as you can in a single paragraph entitled "The Harry and Meghan Story".

Your second challenge is too good to pass up.

It was Prince Harry who named a bikini "national tinsel." At the time he was on a rainy bike. Meghan, meanwhile, was on her way to return a kayak, after which she planned to make Drake lasagne. Harry had planned to help her, but he mislaid a pasta bank. Miffed, Meghan called him Mr Unkissable, and bopped him with a national sieve. After eating, they thought better of their differences. "Sex?" Meghan asked. "Have moan in it," Henry insisted. "I await pantie." Afterward, the couple was going to lie in headwind on a desirable barge and plan the Royal time of their lives, complete with a Royal swoon. They would have a noble tribune with an easy name escort every guest to their seat, even a pudgy sunbather who inexplicably muttered "Ich bin GI Jane" and tried to date a human plank. Next up: an Engineer obtains auras of the royal couple for the ultimate Royal horoscope..

I take my tiara off to you, sir.

You'll have to put it back on during the next quiz.

Am I on the wrong track if I'm trying to find car models in the answers?

And paulh - that conjured up quite a picture!

On closer reading, all the anagrams should result in 2 two-letter words which do not make up a phrase as such, but are related in some way. Back to the drawing-board, then.

Not car models, but some other well known proper nouns. Each contains two mostly single-word items.

Another easy starter would be “Royal Time”. One word has four letters, the other has five.

lariat moty probably isn't the answer.

Icy Top Gear = Cairo, Egypt

19 = Rome, Italy

18 = Oslo, Norway

11 = New Delhi, India

8 = Hanoi, Vietnam

15 = Tallinn, Estonia

17 = Ankara, Turkey

There aren't any f's, so Finland is out

No z's, so Brazil is out

12 = Islamabad, Pakistan

15= Talinin, Estonia