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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Think you can recognize celebs when you see them? Wait, are you sure? See if you can pick the imposters out of the crowd by taking our Celebrity Look-alike quiz. Oh, and be sure to come back and report your scores in the comments below.
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elton john and diana ross were the hardest for me to distinguish
leo is wearing a pittsburgh hat – that’s where i go to school :)
posted by laurel on 10-31-2007 at 10:23 am
87%. I got Beckham and Affleck wrong.
posted by Trevor on 10-31-2007 at 10:24 am
93%. I got Robert Redford wrong.
posted by Erin on 10-31-2007 at 10:32 am
93%. I missed Affleck.
posted by Mej on 10-31-2007 at 10:45 am
Woohoo 93%
posted by Joseph F. on 10-31-2007 at 10:53 am
87% i also got affleck and beckham wrong. darn sunglasses!! and i thought no guy but beckham would have hair that rediculous.
posted by lindsay m on 10-31-2007 at 10:56 am
100% HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
posted by TACU2 on 10-31-2007 at 11:04 am
80% (12 out of 15) I missed David Beckham, Jeremy Piven, and Diana Ross! BOO!
posted by Kelly on 10-31-2007 at 11:15 am
100%–that was an easy one.
posted by CA on 10-31-2007 at 11:18 am
Score: 100% (15 out of 15)
posted by Nikole on 10-31-2007 at 11:21 am
13/15. I failed on Beckham cause I dont have a clue what he looks like and the Ozzy look-alike (who was awesome)
posted by Ack on 10-31-2007 at 11:30 am
If I had gone with my first instinct I would have had 100% but… (the proverbial BUT) at the last second I went back and changed my Affleck choice – 93% (14 out of 15)
posted by Steve S on 10-31-2007 at 11:35 am
80%
Affleck, Beckham (I also don’t know what he looks like)…
and DiCaprio ’cause I didn’t think his head was that round!
posted by RosiePerez on 10-31-2007 at 11:36 am
Celebrity Look-alikes
Score: 87% (13 out of 15)
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 10-31-2007 at 11:39 am
87% because I don’t know who John Madden is and Affleck really fooled me…
posted by FromPortugal on 10-31-2007 at 11:51 am
80%, I missed Hugh Grant, Diana Ross, and Jeremy Piven. These are some great look-alikes!
posted by Rachel on 10-31-2007 at 12:04 pm
I scored 100%… not sure if I should be really proud of really disappointed in myself!
posted by Ellen on 10-31-2007 at 12:27 pm
87%…Missed Diana Ross and Ozzy, both great look-alikes!
posted by Neal on 10-31-2007 at 12:31 pm
13/15 Sting’s teeth are really that bad? ick.
posted by Lebetho on 10-31-2007 at 12:33 pm
15/15 — fun quiz!
posted by Cins on 10-31-2007 at 12:53 pm
Perfect score, baby! Wasn’t quite sure about Becks, but most of them were pretty obvious.
posted by Mudi-B on 10-31-2007 at 1:13 pm
13/15. I’m a little proud and a little embarrassed that I did that well. If you did “pick the world leaders”, I would fail miserably!
posted by Julie on 10-31-2007 at 1:34 pm
Missed Ozzy and Diana.
The Ozzy one seems more obvious when i go back, but I would still swear on the Diana one.
posted by Dusty on 10-31-2007 at 1:38 pm
13 of 15 (87%) Missed Beckham (who the heck is he again?) and Piven (the twisted face pose threw me off)
posted by Helen on 10-31-2007 at 1:55 pm
93% – I missed the Ozzy look-alike
posted by tej on 10-31-2007 at 1:58 pm
87% Missed Diana Ross and Beckham, dont know either of them well enough. this is a great quiz because it tests a very specific part of the brain called something like the fusiforum (learned it in an elective some years back). i saw a study once about a kid that had a very weak fusiform and he had a hard time recognizing his parents day to day. strange, isn’t it?
posted by Kenny D. on 10-31-2007 at 2:08 pm
I got Beckham and Affleck wrong…everyone else was right…so what’s that, 87%? I’m cool with that…
posted by donner on 10-31-2007 at 2:27 pm
13/15 — I got Diana Ross and Ben Affleck wrong
posted by obibonkenobi on 10-31-2007 at 2:46 pm
13/15. Am I the only one who didn’t know that that wasn’t Meg Ryan???
posted by Anonymouse on 10-31-2007 at 4:07 pm
100% Yeah me!
posted by natlynn on 10-31-2007 at 4:30 pm
I got 93%, missed Affleck.
posted by Labbie on 10-31-2007 at 7:22 pm
12 out of 15.
Leo looks a bit round.
posted by Trish Mangesh on 10-31-2007 at 7:44 pm
I got 73% on the quiz. Has anyone looked at the webbsite splitting images where some of the pictures were taken from? OH my. . . some of these celeb “look-a-likes” are more like clones gone terribly wrong! Check out Madonna’s look-a-like. Scary.
posted by Dani on 10-31-2007 at 9:03 pm
93%. Missed Affleck (who was the bomb in Phantoms, yo)
posted by Mike on 10-31-2007 at 9:27 pm
100% correct. While some were very good look a likes in a “hire them for your corporate event” way or “well off the Vegas strip” sort, there is no excusing any incorrect guesses regarding Elton John, Robert Redford and Meg Ryan. Those were obvious imposters. Come on people. If you got those three incorrect you should be ashamed. Ashamed you’re not as sad and pathetically familiar with celebrity bone structure as I. And as for the “Danny DeVito” in the quiz…while the guy may look a bit like him, the real tip off is the fact that he seems to be standing in my dead Aunt Gertrude’s parlor.
posted by DL Menzel on 10-31-2007 at 10:44 pm
I missed the Meg Ryan and the John Madden questions. I’m kicking myself for the Madden mistake. The “Danny DeVito” made me think of (the late) Vic Tayback.
Diana Ross was “iffy” because… (UM?)… she’s a fan of Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeon. (haha)
posted by Tdave on 10-31-2007 at 11:30 pm
73%. Who is Jeremy Piven?
posted by Miss Cellania on 10-31-2007 at 11:42 pm
Lol I had also 73% :p
posted by Zopa on 4-24-2008 at 3:46 pm