Hurricane Katrina
Mount Saint Helens
Pompeii
Tunguska
The Perfect Storm
Name five famous naturalists or conservationists.
Hurricane Katrina
Mount Saint Helens
Pompeii
Tunguska
The Perfect Storm
Name five famous naturalists or conservationists.
Rachel Carson
John James Audubon
Charles Darwin
Jane Goodall
Gregor Mendel
Name five famous televangelists who have not (yet, if you're a cynic) been utterly disgraced.
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Billy Graham
Franklin Graham
Jack Van Impe
Mother Angelica
Pat Robertson
Name 5 scientists with TV shows.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Bill Nye
Carl Sagan
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
Alton Brown
Name 5 people who had talk shows after already being famous for something else.
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Well, as for Pat Robertson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_rob...and_criticisms
Dr. Phil
Ellen DeGeneres
Charles Grodin
Chevy Chase
Wayne Brady
Name five terrible actors (not actresses).
Steven Seagal
Chris Tucker
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Carrot Top
Marlon Wayans
Name 5 great actors who are/were never leading man material.
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Jeff Daniels
Claude Rains
John Cazale
David Hyde Pierce
James Doohan
Name 5 great actresses who are/were never leading woman material.
Kathy Bates
Angela Lansbury
Frances McDormand
Anjelica Huston
Cloris Leachman
Name five obsolete sports strategies or techniques (e.g. two handed set shots in basketball).
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Maybe you'd better try another, OCS.
Sure, but let me take a stab at my own, first:
The T formation (football)
The Single Wing (football)
The "palms-up" boxing stance (picture a white, mustachioed bare-knuckle fighter from 1905 and you know what I mean)
The forkball (baseball, pretty much completely supplanted by the change-up, the four-seam, and the split-finger fastball)
OK, that was unexpectedly hard.
Name five flowers people commonly grow in their home gardens.
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Rose
Pansy
Busy Lizzies
Lobelia
Dahlia
Couple of extra obsolete sports ones:
Cricket: Underarm bowling
High Jump: Hurdle technique
Sprint Atheletics: Standing start
Name 5 sandwich fillings
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
(Ooh, nice, hurdle technique, rendered instantly obsolete by the Fosbury flop.)
cheese
peanut butter
Marmite
falafel
meat
Name 5 wine varieties not native to France or Italy.
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Riesling (Germany)
Liebraumilch (Germany)
Rioja (Spain)
Sherry (Spain)
Madeira (Portugal)
Name five species of rodent.
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field mice
black rats
red squirrels
porcupines
Capybara
Name five aquatic mammals.
dolphin
orca
sperm whale
blue whale
narwhal
Name five amphibians.
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poison arrow frog
red-spotted newt
hellbender salamander <--- awesome name
Bullfrog
Axolotl <--- even awesomer name
Name five animals from Medieval bestiaries.
(Child's play! I'm a D&D guy.)
leucrotta
catoblepas
amphisbaena
manticore
phoenix
Name five sports that involve the use of a bicycle.
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Snowboarding
BMX
Beach volleyball
Triathlon
Skeleton
Name five Olympic gold medal winners of the past decade other than from the U.S., Soviet Union, Russia or China.
Denise Lewis
Chris Hoy
Victoria Pendleton
Rebecca Adlington
Kelly Holmes
Hey the Brits have won a few too you know.
Name 5 sports no longer included in the olympics
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
polo
golf
rugby
lacrosse
croquet
Name five very endangered (but not extinct) animals.
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Cheetah
Panda
Axolotl
California Condor
Red Wolf
Name five titles of religious officials.
Pope
Dalai Lama
Ayatollah
Rabbi
President (Mormonism)
Name five theocratic governments, past or present.
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Deseret
Iran
Vatican City
Kingdom of Israel
Tibet
Name five key dates in world history, and explain why.
June 15, 1215: King John signs the Magna Carta, setting forth in writing for the first time in Western history (that I'm aware of; I'm certainly nervous laying this out for EH's scrutiny) the idea that a monarch's power is not absolute, but is subject to the rule of law, even if they are laws of the monarch's own making.
September 11, 2001: The deadliest foreign attack ever on United States soil touched off two wars that are still being fought, caused sweeping changes in American law, and generally set the tone of international relations from that day to the present.
April 5, 1930: Gandhi takes a pinch of salt from the shore of the Indian Ocean, setting in motion the (largely) nonviolent struggle for independence of the world's second most populous country. He was right about pretty much everything.
November 9, 1989: Protestors begin openly hammering on the Berlin Wall and walking unopposed through the Brandenburg Gate. Marked the beginning of the end of Eastern European communism.
May or June, 313: Constantine issues the Edict of Milan, allowing Christianity to turn from a phenomenally successful underground movement into the de facto official religion of the Roman Empire. Changed...pretty much everything since.
Name five once-great or important cities that are not so much anymore.
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All arguable, of course:
Damascus
Carthage
Rome
Kyoto
Richmond, Va.
Name five things you wished you'd done for St. Patrick's Day.
drunk less
eaten less
given more hugs
visited Ireland
worn green
...but in my defense, I do congratulate myself on staying safely at home tonight. St. Paddy's, NYE, and July 4th are three days I religiously do not drive at night.
Name five words or expressions you find yourself overusing.
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"Don't do that to the dog."
"We can't afford it."
"Because I'm your father."
"Keira, I'm sorry, but...."
"Mr. President, I would suggest...."
OK, only three of those. I'll leave you to figure out which three.
Name five islands you'd like to visit.
Britain
Ireland
Cuba
Hong Kong
Manhattan
Name five comic books that have not been adapted into a feature film.
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A Contract with God
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
He Done Her Wrong
It Rhymes With Lust
Bloodstar
Name five books, never yet made into movies, that you'd love to see filmed.
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Name five notable healers.
I know, I know. But the Will Smith movie is different enough I don't even really consider it to be Asimov's I, Robot.
Harry Houdini
The Amazing Kreskin
Dr. Strange
Mandrake the Magician
Penn and Teller
Name five famous hoaxes.
The Loch Ness Monster
The Shroud of Turin
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Piltdown Man
The Cardiff Giant
Name five famous entertainers who use(d) a stage name, and their original given names.
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Well, the jury's still out on the Shroud of Turin, isn't it?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_turin
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch)
Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm)
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.)
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson)
Mary Pickford (born Gladys Marie Smith)
Name five roles of Lee Marvin.
the guy who picked and led The Dirty Dozen
Liberty Valance
the old sergeant in The Big Red One
the gunfighter in Cat Ballou
the other gunfighter in Cat Ballou
Name five actors who always seem to play bad guys/gals.
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Of course there have been exceptions in their careers, but...
John Malkovich
Anthony Hopkins
Tony Perkins
Maximilian Schell
Mae West
Name five books that really ought to never have been made into films.
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First Blood
The Adjustment Bureau
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Twice! If you can't handle the ending, don't make the goddamn movie.)
Dune (I love the book, but too much of it takes place inside the people's heads.)
The Stand (Stephen King should require a $100M deposit before signing away the rights again, just to ensure production values.)
Name five professions/industries that have either been endangered, or rendered completely obsolete, by the advent of the internet.
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Travel agent
Research librarian
Ticket clerk
Cartographer
Personal shopper
Name five people who ought to appear on currency (but don't now), and in which country.
Theodore Roosevelt (USA)
Nikola Tesla (Croatia)
Leon Trotsky (Russia)
Bob Marley (Jamaica)
Mohandas Gandhi (India)
Name five species of shark.
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Great White
Whale
Tiger
Lemon
MEGALODON
Name five species of canid.
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
Grey Wolf
Arctic Fox
Japanese Raccoon Dog
Coyote
Golden Jackal
Name five species of bear.
Brown
Grizzly
Black
Cave
Sugar
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Name five kinds of big cats.
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John Lennon
George Harrison
Ritchie Valens
Buddy Holly
Hank Ballard
Name five notable classical musicians living today.
Yo-Yo Ma
Jennifer Koh
Lang Lang
Angelin Chang
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Name five politicians who died of natural causes in the last thirty years.
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
Ronald Reagan
Pierre Trudeau
Francois Mitterrand
Harold Wilson
P.W. Botha
Name five nicknames that might sort of fit you, but that you would rather not have.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way, influenced the music industry through the genre of rock music. The museum is part of the city's redeveloped North Coast Harbor.
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