Robert Q. Lewis was an American radio and television entertainer, comedian, game show host and actor. Lewis added the middle initial "Q" to his name accidentally on the air in 1942. He was thinking of radio comedian F. Chase Taylor's character Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle, and "when I signed off, I declared 'This is Robert Q. Lewis.' I don't know why but that got lots of good reaction." He decided to retain the initial, telling interviewers it stood for "Quizzical."

The Name's the Same is an American game show produced by Goodson-Todman for the ABC television network from December 5, 1951 to August 31, 1954, followed by a run from October 25, 1954 to October 7, 1955. The premise was for contestants to guess the names of persons whose actual name corresponded to a famous person, celebrity, a place, common object or action.