Audio Clue Fifteen contains the lyric "run, girl, run" so I'll guess at Paula Radcliffe because she looks a bit like her.

That's the lady!

Number Fifteen: Paula Radcliffe

(audio clue - "Run, Girl, Run" performed by The Cog Is Dead)

I see we've gone onto a new page in the thread so to save you from hopping back and forth with such a long loading time for the images here are the ten now remaining:






Number Six: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Six:


Number Seven:

Audio Clue Seven:


Number Ten: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Ten:


Number Fourteen: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Fourteen:


Number Sixteen: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Sixteen:


Number Seventeen: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Seventeen:


Number Eighteen: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Eighteen:


Number Nineteen:

Audio Clue Nineteen:


Number Twenty Two: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Twenty Two:


Number Twenty Five: (solved in thread below)

Audio Clue Twenty Five:

After a lot of cogitation over this morning's tea, here are another couple of suggestions:

Number 16 - an academic/philosopher - it's not Bertrand Russell (we've had him before with straw hat and cricket bat), the German ones like Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein are probably all from earlier than that photo, and I don't think you'd have gone for Jean-Paul Sartre or Albert Camus. So I'm gonna plump for Noam Chomsky.

Number 18 - detectives - too early I reckon for the likes of John Thorn or Peter Falk, and anyway what more famous detective is there than Sherlock Holmes? So how about Basil Rathbone?

And now I really need to do some gardening ... but it's cold, I can't find my spade, I broke my pickaxe handle yesterday and anyway the ground's frozen .... so maybe yet another cuppa and just a few more minutes of musing here.

Number 19 - I'm thinking Nobel Peace Prize Laureates ... and the only one, still reasonably well known, that I can think of from about the right era is Woodrow Wilson.

Some good elementary deduction there, MM!  (EDIT: apart from Woodrow Wilson however)

Number Sixteen: Noam Chomsky

(Audio clue: "Smarter Than You" performed by The Undertones)

Number Eighteen: Basil Rathbone

(Audio clue: "We Are Detective" by Thompson Twins)

Audio Clue Nineteen mentions the word 'dream' so I'll try and interpret that as referring to Sigmund Freud.

Not Ziggy Freud, I'm afraid.

No 10, Amy Winehouse?

Sorry, it's the audio clue to number 7 that doesn't work for me so could someone help me out please?

Good to have you back ferv. The audio clue for number 7 is the song Tomorrow from the musical Annie if that helps. It doesn't help me. 

I'll have another wild guess at Number Twenty Two and go for Richard Dawkins.

10 is poor Amy, yes! Well done!



Number Ten: Amy Winehouse

(Audio clue: "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" by The  Dandy Warhols)

Number 7 works with every browser I've tested it on. It's her as a kid (for those who can hear it). No. 22 is not Dawkins. no.

No 22 must be Carl Sagan, he really didn't change that much over the years.

It's odd about no. 7, all the others work, so thanks for the tips folks.

Yes, No. 22 was Carl Sagan - Mr Universe himself!


(Audio clue: Mr Universe by Gerry Rafferty)

No 14, could that be Trudeau junior? i rather fancied his dad back in the day, not something I feel about many politicians.

A palpable it, yet again!

Number fourteen: Justin Trudeau

(Audio clue: "I'm A Lumberjack" by Monty Python)

That leaves two actors, two politicians and one singer ...

(or one actor, two politicians and two singers if you count "Annie" as singing ...)

Number 25 ... "If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen" ... must be therefore be Harry Truman.

Absolutely!

Number Twenty Five: Harry Truman

(Audio clue "If You Can't Stand The Heat" performed by Bucks Fizz)

nordmann wrote:

That leaves two actors, two politicians and one singer ...

(or one actor, two politicians and two singers if you count "Annie" as singing ...)

With Twenty Five (Harry Truman) solved then that leaves an actor, a politician, a singer and an actor/singer. I'm stumped with the audio clues but I'll guess at Number Nineteen as being the politician and go for Winston Churchill because it's about the right era and his mouth and chin look like it could be him.

Not Winnie, though we had him before in his little sailor suit if I recall, bless 'im.

No 17, the young Georgie who didn't kiss the girls and had a thing about chameleons?

Well guessed - young Master O'Dowd it is!

Number 17: Boy George

(Audio clue: "Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl?" by The Barbarians)

Here's a desperate guess at Number Six - is it Anthony Hopkins as in The Silence of the Lambs?

Nil Desperandum! Well guessed from such an admittedly crappy clue!

Number Six: Anthony Hopkins

(Audio clue: "Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Paul McCartney)

So then there were two ...

Number Seven:

Audio Clue Seven:

Number Nineteen:

Audio Clue Nineteen:

Number 19: "A Little Peace", given the aged look of the photo, I'll try Woodrow Wilson, though without any great conviction.

I think he's been suggested already - though you're all on the right lines so far regarding this bloke.

I'll go back a few years and try Theodore Roosevelt.

Wrong direction ...

Just because of facial resemblance and a penchant for the limelight, could no 7 possibly be the all singing, all dancing exMP Anne Widdecombe?

Or with the shoes clue ... is it Treeza, 'shoes means shoes' May?

I'm sorry I ever mentioned shoes now ... (the point of that clue was in the audio, not the content, which is why I replaced it as it was a little too vague). But come to think of it that's actually the point of the new clue too - the voice rather than the words "expressed" (using the term as when it applies to squeezing mother-juice out of a reluctant nipple).

But no, not Widdecombe or May.

nordmann wrote:

Wrong direction ...

Triceratops wrote:

I'll go back a few years and try Theodore Roosevelt.

Then let's try Franklin Delano.

Not FD either ...

nordmann wrote:

That leaves two actors, two politicians and one singer ...

(or one actor, two politicians and two singers if you count "Annie" as singing ...)

I'm trying to think of anyone famous who sang Tomorrow but there aren't that many. The child actors who played Annie (whether it be on stage or on film) never seemed to then make it as adults. There are people, however, who've performed the song in other contexts outside of the musical and so of those I'll go for Reese Witherspoon.

Ah, but one Little Orphan Annie did indeed go on to better things (one could argue they could hardly go on to worse I suppose), though it was't Ms WItherspoon.

I've just worked out that the third person to play Annie in the original Broadway production was Sarah Jessica Parker. If that's not who Number Seven is then this really is a hard knock quiz.

Number 19 : "A little peace .... in our time", perhaps. Is it Neville Chamberlain?

Yes it is, On both counts!  

Number Seven: Sarah Jessica Parker

(Audio Clue: "Tomorrow" sung by Li'l Orphan Parker, aged 14, in the Broadway production of "Annie" that first brought her thespian fame)



Number Nineteen: Neville Chamberlain

(Audio Clue: "A Little Peace" performed by Nicole)


Well done all!

Thanks for doing that quiz Nordmann ... very enjoyable, if at times sometimes maddening. And educational too: I read up all about the Nobel Peace prize and the various Nobel Laureates, the Treaty of Versailles, the formation of the League of Nations ... only for it to suddenly dawn on me that the clue was probably referring to something completely different.

Well done MM for getting Number Nineteen. Who'd have thought that the man of Munich would have started off life as a wee Napoleon.

Good quiz nordmann. I thought it was never going to be completed and yet am now missing it already.