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    King Arthur
    Gilgamesh
    Beowulf
    Sherlock Holmes
    Dracula

    Name five famous pre-19th Century painters without a ninja turtle named after them.

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    da Vinci
    Botticelli
    Vermeer
    Bruegel
    Eworth

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    ...Queen Anne's Revenge (Pirates of the Caribbean)
    Not fictitious (although fictionalized in the movie): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne%27s_Revenge

    So I'll add: HMS Pinafore (Gilbert & Sullivan)

    Name five brands of candy bar.
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    Cool, thanks! And since I appear to have stumped us, let's let the turtles in:

    Name five famous pre-19th Century painters.
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    Is it cheating if some of these characters were named above? I hope not, because I need them


    Da Vinci
    Breugel
    Rembrandt
    Bosch
    Michaelangelo

    Name five physicists whose contributions to the field are highly respected

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    Newton
    Einstein
    Niels Bohr
    Heisenberg
    Erwin Schrödinger

    Name 5 proto-types for the Mad Scientist concept:

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    Dr. Frankenstein
    Dr. Jekyll
    Dr. Caligari
    The scientist who just wanted to talk to the alien in the first The Thing movie
    The bald evil scientist from that early Superman cartoon

    Name five brands of candy bar.

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    Mars
    Snickers
    Picnic
    Boost
    KitKat


    Name 5 types of cloud.

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    cirrus
    cumulus
    stratus
    nimbus
    umm, Thunder

    EH, I am sad that no mention of Tesla or Einstein. Tesla as he pretty much was one and Einstein for his hair.


    Name 5 side dishes for a large family meal like Christmas or Thanksgiving.

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    mashed potatoes
    gravy
    stuffing
    sweet potatoes
    corn
    cranberry relish
    string bean casserole
    rolls
    (That's more than 5, but they're all too good to leave off the list.)

    Name 5 US holidays that are now celebrated as "Monday holidays" regardless of the date they fall on (are there 5? I hope so.)
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    Presidents Day
    MLK Birthday
    Columbus Day
    Memorial Day
    Veterans Day

    There are exactly five, as it happens.

    Five things you might do after a big Thanksgiving meal.

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    I'll substitute Christmas instead: Sleep, Watch TV, Read a book, Go for a Walk, Play Video Games.

    Name 5 things that are sticky
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    glue
    blood
    chewing gum
    tree sap
    a stick

    Name five famous cross dressers.

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    Ru Paul
    Billy Tipton
    Ed Wood
    Joan of Arc
    John Lithgow

    Name five books that have been banned somewhere.

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    Candide
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    The Catcher in the Rye
    The Satanic Verses
    Lolita


    Name five famous real-world spies.

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    Kim Philby
    Donald Maclean
    Guy Burgess
    Anthony Blunt
    John Cairncross.

    Name five giant mutant creatures
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    Godzilla
    Them! (giant ants)
    Mothra
    King Ghidorah
    Yao Ming

    Name five non-famous siblings of famous people

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    The best I can seem to do is "less famous."

    Frank Stallone
    Ozzie Canseco
    Bill Ripken
    Charlie Murphy
    Marvin Bush (brother of George W., Jeb, and Neil)

    Name five people who legally changed their name to their stage/professional name.
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    Elton John
    Cary Grant
    Kirk Douglas
    E.G. Marshall
    Groucho Marx

    Name five of Shakespeare's sonnets by common title.

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    Um...mercy? I have "The Dark Lady," then bupkes. Want to dunk your own rebound, Elendil's Heir?

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    As you wish.

    "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day," Sonnet 18
    "A woman's face with nature's own hand painted," Sonnet 20
    "Was it the proud full sail," Sonnet 86
    "From you have I been absent in the spring," Sonnet 98
    "Love is too young," Sonnet 151

    Name five things within arm's reach of you right now.

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    (Way to give me one that has literally zero chance of stumping me unless I'm posting from inside a sensory deprivation tank...)

    my laptop
    a glass of red wine
    a box of artifex's knitting needles
    a fleece blanket
    a mouse (that I'm not using, opting instead for the laptop's track pad)

    Name five female characters in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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    Arwen
    Galadriel
    Eonwe
    Rosie Cotton
    Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

    Name 5 different English Cheeses
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    Wensleydale
    Cheddar
    Caerphilly
    Stinking Bishop
    Stilton

    Name 5 English or Scottish Castles.

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    Windsor
    Tower of London
    Edinburgh
    Doune
    Stalker

    The last two featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doune_C...the_Holy_Grail
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Stalker

    Name five secondary characters from Monty Python movies.

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    (Do the Knights Who Until So Recently Said "Ni!" count as three?)

    Mr. Creosote ("fuck off, I'm full...")
    Jesus Christ
    Zoot (wicked, naughty, bad!)
    Roger, shrubber
    The Black Knight

    Name five famous people who are missing a limb (who are famous for something other than missing the limb).
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    Actual people? That seems very tough.

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    A mix of real and fictitious, then:

    Douglas Bader, legless RAF ace
    Long John Silver, one-legged pirate
    Aron Ralston, cut off his own arm when caught between rocks (127 Hours)
    Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis, missing his forearm (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
    Abigail and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins with just two arms and two legs between them

    Name five Christmas or holiday songs you hate.

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    (Sorry, I threw that out there without thinking very hard about it. I probably could have come up with two at best.)

    "Feliz Navidad," Jose Feliciano <----- #1 by a wide margin
    "All I Want For Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey
    "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), written by Mel Torme, recorded by many
    "Blue Christmas," Elvis Presley
    "Last Christmas," Wham!

    Name five Christmas or holiday songs that you love.
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    "All I Want For Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey (really!)
    "Carol of the Bells," as performed by the Boston Pops
    "We Three Kings," as performed by The Roches (their version has an interesting klezmer/Tex-Mex sound to it)
    "For Unto Us A Child is Born," from Handel's Messiah
    "Arabian Dance," from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

    Actually, I like virtually all of Messiah and Nutcracker, come to think of it. Just some parts more than others.

    Name five bodies of water in which you've gone swimming (or just seen, as a backup option).

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    Sandy Hook Bay
    Gulf of Mexico
    Atlantic Ocean
    Pacific Ocean
    Redd Pond

    Name 5 cities you've been to.

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    (I'll give you five cities I've been to that hosted Civil War battles, how about that?)

    Gettysburg, PA
    Fredericksburg, VA
    Manassas, VA
    Sharpsburg, MD (site of Antietam creek)
    New Market, MD (Small battle, but they re-enact it every year. Lots of fun!)

    Name five people who lived to be 100 years old.

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    The Queen Mother, British royal
    Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese military leader
    Eldred G. Smith, Mormon leader
    Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas and 1936 GOP presidential nominee
    Strom Thurmond, U.S. senator

    Name five famous people who died before age 40.

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    James Dean
    Aaliyah
    Amy Winehouse
    Jimi Hendrix
    Jim Morrison

    Name 5 films with a number in the title.
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    I assume you don't mean like "Rocky V" or God help us "Star Wars III: The Clone Wars"

    Ocean's Eleven
    Seven
    101 Dalmations
    Three Men and a Baby
    12 Angry Men

    Name 5 countries that have changed their names in your lifetime.

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    (Trying to avoid countries that simply broke into pieces, rather than renaming...)

    Burma --> Myanmar
    Democratic Republic of the Congo --> Zaire --> Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Rhodesia --> Zimbabwe
    Cambodia --> Kampuchea --> Cambodia
    South-West Africa --> Namibia

    Name 5 famous people who have had more than three marriages.

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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Henry VIII
    Jane Seymour
    Emperor Claudius
    Charlie Chaplin

    Name 5 people who have played Sherlock Holmes
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    Jeremy Brett (still the best, IMHO)
    Robert Downey Jr.
    Stewart Granger
    Nikolay Volkov
    Matt Frewer

    Name five decommissioned or lost U.S. submarines

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    USS Scorpion
    USS Thresher
    USS Hi, Buckeye!
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    How about:

    USS Scorpion
    USS Thresher
    USS Cusk
    USS Cod
    USS Nautilus

    The last two are now museum ships, in Cleveland and Groton, respectively.

    I'll let someone else name the next category - OneCentStamp, if he's back first.

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    Geez, first the brazen showoffery of naming 5 Holmeses other than Basil Rathbone, and now this. You're a very, very smart man, Elendil's Heir.

    Name 5 Jewish holidays.
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    Not all that smart. We're allowed to consult Wiki, right...?

    Purim
    Hanukkah
    Passover
    Yom Kippur
    Rosh Hashanah

    Name five (relatively) recent movies you want to see, but haven't yet.

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    Mission Imposssible: Jeremy Renner's in it
    Sherlock Holmes 2

    The Tempest w/ Helen Mirren that refuses to be on Netflix
    New Conan the Barbarian
    Shame

    Name 5 things associated with Hanukkah.

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    Menorah
    Latkes
    Matzoh
    Dreidel
    Lame gifts (or so I am told)

    Name five types of cloud.
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    Cumulonimbus
    Cirrus
    Cumulus
    Altostratus
    Cirrostratus

    Name 5 brands of watch.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    Not all that smart. We're allowed to consult Wiki, right...?
    Well, the OP said "no Googling." I took that as a blanket proscription of online help.

    Quote Originally posted by RabbitMage View post
    Lame gifts (or so I am told)
    Nonsense! My gift from artifex last night, the first night of Hanukkah, was a set of Glencairns!

    Rolex
    Tag Heuer
    Movado
    Bulova
    Casio

    Name five formerly top-end clothing designers whose label can now be found in Wal-Mart, Target, or the like.
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    Clearly, I spend too much time in big box retailers.

    Tommy Hilfiger
    Mossimo
    Calvin Klein
    Isaac Mizrahi
    Elio Fiorucci

    Anyone want to throw out the next one?
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    Quote Originally posted by OneCentStamp View post
    Anyone want to throw out the next one?
    Name 5 things you would throw off a ship
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    Confetti, as your ship sets sail
    A life preserver, to save someone who'd fallen overboard
    A corpse, for a burial at sea
    A clay pigeon, for skeet shooting
    Garbage, if you were a jerk who didn't care about the environment

    Name five typical things in your garbage

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    used paper towels
    empty glass bottles (plastic goes into the recycling, but there's usually a wine or liquor bottle in the main trash)
    carefully individually bagged dog poops
    food waste (potato peels, plate scrapings, etc.)
    junk mail

    Name a word or expression you know how to write in five different languages.
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    spasibo
    gracias
    merci
    danke
    thanks

    Name five things you'd (realistically) like to do in 2012

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