Ok, who's ready for another stab at identifying some famous-type people from some very misleading pictures of their more youthful selves?

Apologies if one or two maybe popped up in previous quizzes using different baby pics, but the rest are certainly brand spanking new (can one say that in relation to minors these days?).

As usual there is an audio clue accompanying each picture just to confuse everyone further ... (will of course add some more as time goes on if people are struggling)

Correct answers will be acknowledged as the thread goes on, along with up to date images of the poor sods, etc etc ...



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Number 36 (two for the price of one - can you name them both?)

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Woo hoo ... we like these, and so a big thankyou in advance of my even attempting to guess any of them. But with its composition, I take it that you are now finally feeling somewhat better ... yes?

I'll stick my head above the parapet and have a try.

Number 36, the music (for her) is the theme to Two Mules for Sister Sara so I'd guess that is Shirley McLaine and little brother Warren Beatty.

1. Angela Merkel?

Number 24, Kaiser Wilhelm II

Number 33, sounds like Patrick Stewart on the audio.

6. Jo Johnson?

28. Jacob Rees-Mogg?

35 looks like a young Travolta

Even without the audio clue - Number 21 is So Graham Norton.

The all-grown-up picture you've posted in answer to No.24 is actually the Kaiser's son, 'Little Willy'.

I think No. 4 would be the recent Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Number 18 obviously predates the invention of photography and by the sound of the audio clue, have a try at King George III as in The Madness of King George III.
US audiences still waiting for the two prequels.

No. 3 - might be Barbara Windsor, certainly an Eastenders' long-serving trooper though she didn't start that young.

No. 6 - isn't Alexander de Piffle-Paffle Watermelon-Smile Letterbox Spaffer Johnson is it? it's the hair, plus "I don't know what I'm doing" that rather gives him away.

I'm wondering if no. 20 is Kate Moss though I'm not sure because KM may have fuller lips.

No. 9 - "Farewell Angelina" must be Brad Pitt.
No. 8 - has a look of Nichola Sturgeon about her, no?

And No. 11 ... a cab driver hence 'Taxi Driver' thus Robert de Niro?

Is number 30 Travolta's co-star in Grease, Olivia Newton John.??

32. Victoria Beckham ??

Is the Number 7, Apeman, better known as a robot? Arnie "I'll be back" Schwarzenegger.

I'll have another try at 7...........David Attenborough ??

Nope, 7 as Arnie or Attenborough, 20 as Kate Moss, and 8 as Sturgeon are (so far) incorrect guesses ...

Struggling with 7.

37. The audio clue "Dear John", so would that be Yoko Ono. and 2 the lad himself, John Winston Lennon??

I'll need to sign off now otherwise I'll be here all day.

No. 16 - "I am a rock, I am an island" ... hence Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson?

And now back to planting out my tomatoes (fingers crossed it's not too early) and weeding my carrots.

I'll guess that Number 19 is Gary Lineker because it looks a bit like him and the audio clue might be a reference to those ubiquitous 2000s adverts for potato crisps in which he featured.

I hardly recognise these as adults let alone children! Especially Robert De Niro and Warren Beatty. But I showed them briefly to my son, aged 37, and he said, "Is that (no 6) Boris Johnson?" and was very proud when I said it was. "Something about the gormless expression." I didn't understand the reference to the song, (oh now I have heard the words more "I don't know what I'm doing more than half of the time"), but it is beautiful, and I haven't heard it for so long. My son thought it was lovely too.

No27   Andrea Bocelli?

... or James Dean, perhaps?

No. 2 - The govenor of California, Arnie "I'll be back" Schwarzenegger?

Please Sir, can we have some more? What I mean is please could you say what the music is also with each pic once guessed? A few of  us being less wordly, experienced, conservative and  possibly God fearing don't know much of your more catholic musical knowledge of such stuff...…. and actually may even like it.

P.S. And thank you for going to all the trouble to do this kind of thing, anyway.

Maybe at the end I'll list the audio credits etc all together in one post? It's complicated enough editing the "answers" post each time as things stand.

PS: the guesses for 27 were incorrect ...

PPS: That's 19 correct so far, so now just over halfway through!

Is number 31 Valentina Tereshkova ??

Apologies, Trike and everyone who may have wasted time on that lassie! The pic for 31 is disputed elsewhere, I've just discovered, so I've replaced it with one that I know for sure is accurate. Should be easier now ....

nordmann wrote:

Should be easier now ....

I'm still just guessing. Stick with female astronauts and try Helen Sharman

'fraid not. I'm adding in extra audio clues at the moment so I'll do 31 too ...

Trike's suggestion (and the new picture) have helped. It's not a real astronaut Trike - it's Sigourney Weaver.

I see it now Vizzer. Another Dinosaur brain malfunction.

Number 14, the audio clues are a song about Reggie and a song which references Rocketman, so I will hazard a guess at Elton John.

13, "I got stoned and I missed it"...........................Mick Jagger??

Number 27, "Leader of the Pack" in French.......Emmanuel Macron

Going by audio clue one for Number 17 then I'll guess that it's Lady Gugu's twin sister Gaga.

Number 5, audio clue 2 is about someone called Bernie, I'll try Bernie Sanders

With audio clue one being a high-tempo, bluegrass ballad about Titanic, and thus almost the musical antithesis of her lugubrious movie theme song, and with audio clue two being a hilariously frightful (Muppet?) rendition of the Canadian anthem, then Number 8 can only be Celine Dion.

No. 7 - not an apeman but the good homo sapien from the original 'Planet of the Apes': Charleton Heston?

No.22 - for a "brown-eyed handsome man" ... as a complete guess, how about George Clooney?

No.23, with 'Politics of Dancing' and Paul Lincke's 'Folies Bergère March', it's just got to be Josephine Baker, no?

Number 34, audio clue 2 mentions Madonna, is it Ms Ciccone??

Apologies Trike - I feel guilty because I keep standing on your shoulders after you've done all the heavy lifting. It's not Madonna but rather her ex. I think Number 34 is Sean Penn. Audio clue one 'Poison Pen' seems to clinch that. Slightly unfair as a clue, perhaps, because he shed his former 'bad boy' image many years ago.

No. 10 - Thanks yet again to the musical clues: a 'rat' and 'the dean', rather suggests to me that it's Dean Martin, no?

Well done Meles for getting Number 10. That was probably the most cryptic one so far.

In the same vein I can't decide if Number 12 is Sven-Göran Eriksson or Dominic Cummings or someone else entirely. I'll go for Dominic Cummings.

Looks like just six left now. Numbers 13, 15, 20, 25, 26 & 29.

Number 13,going by audio clue 1, I'm sure it's one of the Stones. I think it's Keith Richards.

I'm hopeless at this but something about 20's clue made me think of a model or maybe a model who has become an actress.  There aren't as many actresses/models who have darkened their hair as there are dark haired actresses/models who have reached for the hydrogen peroxide.  I wondered about French Bond girl/possessor of a dodgy English accent Eva Green but I'll take a stab with nordmann's countrywoman, Katie McGrath.  (Though somehow I don't see nordmann watching either 'Merlin' or 'Supergirl').