Name 5.

[Oliveloaf]

rotini
spaghetti
angel hair
penne
ziti

Name five Michael Jackson albums

[OneCentStamp]

Off The Wall
Thriller
Bad
Dangerous
HIStory

Name five commonly eaten mushroom varieties.

[What Exit?]

portobellos
button
porcini
shiitake
truffle

Name 5 bridges in NY

[Elendil's Heir]

Verrazano Narrows
George Washington
Brooklyn
Livingston Avenue*
Kosciusko Bridge**

*over the Hudson River, connecting Albany and Rensselaer
**also near Albany

Name five Spielberg movies

[What Exit?]

1941
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List


Name 5 Kevin Smith movies

[OneCentStamp]

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Clerks 2
Dogma

Name five serif fonts.

[Zuul]

With all the typesetting I've done I kind of feel like I'm cheating...

Times New Roman
Book Antiqua
Bookman Old Style
Courier
Century

Name 5 Asian desserts

[Oliveloaf]

(Can they be fake Asian desserts, like PF Chang's Great Wall of Fudge? )

[Zuul]

(I will accept that.)

[OneCentStamp]

With all the being Asian I've done, I kind of feel like I'm cheating.

sticky rice w/mango (Thailand)
sticky rice w/mung bean and sugar (Vietnam)
lychee nuts in syrup
coconut rice cake (Vietnam)
candied ginger

Name five fruits that are habitually eaten unripe.

[Elendil's Heir]

bananas
peaches
apples
pears
strawberries

Name five beautiful actresses.

[What Exit?]

Audrey Hepburn
Ava Gardner
Michelle Pfeiffer
Halle Berry
Jennifer Connelly

Name 5 dog breeds known for their intelligence

[OtakuLoki]

Schipperke
Otterhound
German Shepherd Dog
Australian Sheepdog
Irish Setter (Known for their complete and utter lack of intelligence.)

Name five breeds of sheep

[Trojan Man]

Aussiedown
Merino
Bovska
Columbia
MEATMASTER

Name 5 German desserts.

[Zuul]

Bienenstich
Rumtopf
Lebkuchen
Streuselkuchen
Kaesekuchen

(Yes, I just started tacking words onto -kuchen for those last two, but I'm pretty sure those are the real names.)

Name 5 cities in Florida

[What Exit?]

Orlando
Miami
West Palm
Tampa Bay
Fort Meyers

Name 5 Mellophant posters with over 1000 posts.

[Oliveloaf]

That cute Jim Rockford guy.
What Exit?
Zuul
Sarahfeena
One Cent Stamp

Name 5 historic drives. (That you can drive along to this day.)

[OneCentStamp]

Pacific Coast Highway (US 101)
Historic Route 66
Historic Route 50
US Route 1 (Maine to Florida, baby!)
Lincoln Highway

Name 5 actors/actresses who were nominated for an Oscar before age 30.

[Peeta Mellark]

Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
James Dean - East of Eden
Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry

Name 5 directors who were nominated for an Oscar after the age of 50

[OneCentStamp]

Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down
Steven Spielberg, Munich
Robert Redford, Quiz Show

Name 5 members of the Brat Pack.

[Peeta Mellark]

I started giving the Rat Pack. I was on the third one before I realized my mistake.

Molly Ringwald
Emilio Estevez
Judd Nelson
Andrew McCarthy
Anthony Michael Hall

Name 5 members of the Rat Pack

[Sarahfeena]

Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Joey Bishop (who?)
Peter Lawford.

Name 5 species of dinosaur.

[Trojan Man]

Stegosaurus
Plattosaurus
Tricerotops
Pterodactyl
Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Name 5 songs with the word 'blue' in the title.

[OneCentStamp]

New Order, "Blue Monday"
LeeAnn Rimes, "Blue"
George Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue"
B.B. King, "How Blue Can You Get?"
The Marcels, "Blue Moon"

Name 5 breeds of dog that commonly weigh over 100 lbs.

[Peeta Mellark]

English Mastiff
Irish Wolfhound
Newfoundland
Saint Bernard
Akita

Name 5 peoples of the Pacific Islands

[What Exit?]

...
Joey Bishop (who?)
...

Wait, we're not suppose to look these up. Joey Bishop was a comedian. Frequent guest and guest host on the Tonight Show. Someone my father liked.

St Bernard
Newfy
King Shepherds
Bull Mastiff
Irish Wolfhound

Name 5 comedians that had HBO specials

[Elendil's Heir]

Gilbert Gottfried
Jerry Seinfeld
Richard Belzer
George Carlin
Bill Maher

Repeating: Name 5 peoples of the Pacific Islands.

[Trojan Man]

Maori
Tahitians
Fijians
Tongans
Samoans.

Name 5 varieties of apple.

[Oliveloaf]

Golden Delicious
Granny Smith
Crab
Macintosh (sp?)
Fuji

Name 5 types of (traditional British) pudding.

[Zuul]

The British formula for pudding: Take an adjective. Stick it in front of the name "pudding." What the hell does it taste like? Doesn't matter. It's got pudding in the name!

Yorkshire Pudding
Summer Pudding
Christmas Pudding
Black Pudding
White Pudding

Name 5 brands of bottled water

[OneCentStamp]

Evian
Volvic
Dasani
Ozarka
Aquafina

Name five formerly common medical practices that are no longer in common use.

[Elendil's Heir]

bleeding (as a therapy)
lobotomy
electroshock therapy
amputation for gunshot wounds
trepanning

Name five commonly-emailed urban legends.

[Zuul]

Facebook is shutting down this March!!!!!
Beware old ladies in parking lots, for they might actually be disguised rapists
Man wants a divorce, but his wife is secretly dying of cancer and croaks without ever telling anyone
For every person who forwards this email, Bill Gates will donate a penny to charity
Barack Obama was sworn into office on a copy of the Koran

Name 5 of the seven deadly sins

[OneCentStamp]

Gluttony
Greed
Pride
Sloth
Wrath

(Harder): name five of the seven virtues.

[Peeta Mellark]

Lust
Wrath
Pride
Envy
Gluttony

Name 5 admirals

[Elendil's Heir]

James T. Kirk
William "Bull" Halsey
Hiehachiro Togo
Horatio, Lord Nelson
François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse

(Harder): name five of the seven virtues.

[OneCentStamp]

Faith
Hope
Charity
Prudence
Temperance

(nothing like dunking your own rebound!)

Name five famous authors who published primarily under an alias.

[Elendil's Heir]

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
A Lady (Jane Austen)
George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin)
Joe Hill (Joseph Hillstrom King, Stephen's son)

Name five movies not to be seen on a first date.

[Oliveloaf]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Schindler's List
Porky's II
Robocop III
Lost in America (uncut version)

Name five ingredients that are commonly found in recipes that folks rarely have at home.

[OneCentStamp]

vanilla bean
shallot
buttermilk
fresh ginger
anchovy

Name five foods/beverages that are place name restricted (i.e. bourbon whiskey must come from a particular part of Kentucky):

[Elendil's Heir]

Champagne, France
Roquefort cheese, France
Kobe beef, Japan
Burning River Pale Ale, Cleveland, Ohio
Philly cheesesteak, Philadelphia, Pa.

Or so say the purists, at least.

Name five U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury.

[What Exit?]

Paul O'Neil
Henry Paulson
Mr. Geithner
Alexander Hamilton
James Baker

Name 5 Books about WWI

[Ramses]

The First World War by John Keegan
The First World War by Gerard Groot
The First World War by H. H. Herwig
The First World War by Hew Strachan
The First World War by Martin Gilbert

Name 5 famous confidence tricks in history (aside from the foundation of religions)

[Elendil's Heir]

Ponzi Schemes
South Sea Bubble
Who is Keyser Soze?
Bait-and-switch
Deposed Nigerian princess

Name five internal organs, the purpose of which you're not quite sure of

[What Exit?]

Appendix
Uvula (if that counts as an organ and for that matter an internal one)
Gall Bladder
Spleen
pancreas (Well I know it produces insulin but I don't know what else it does)

Name 5 types of Bears

[OneCentStamp]

Polar
Sun
Brown
Black
Panda (It's a bear again, right? For a while wasn't it classified a big raccoon or some shit?)

Name five people who should be in the Baseball HoF, but never/probably never will. Or, if you're an exclusionist, name five guys who are in there or probably will be once they retire, but shouldn't be.

[What Exit?]

The Great Panda is indeed classed as a Bear and the Red Panda is in its own class and considered close to a raccoon now but not a raccoon.

[OneCentStamp]

The Great Panda is indeed classed as a Bear and the Red Panda is in its own class and considered close to a raccoon now but not a raccoon.

OK, thanks! Now will you answer the next question? It was practically gift-wrapped with your name on it.

[What Exit?]

OK, thanks! Now will you answer the next question? It was practically gift-wrapped with your name on it.

Honestly I can't think of 5 in either direction. But to avoid confusion: I repost it.

Name five people who should be in the Baseball HoF, but never/probably never will. Or, if you're an exclusionist, name five guys who are in there or probably will be once they retire, but shouldn't be.

[OneCentStamp]

OK, since I appear to have killed the thread, let me throw out a new one:

Name five famous works of art/fiction/film/music/whatever that were either completed after the author's death, or left unfinished by the author's death.