King Arthur
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
Sherlock Holmes
Dracula
Name five famous pre-19th Century painters without a ninja turtle named after them.
King Arthur
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
Sherlock Holmes
Dracula
Name five famous pre-19th Century painters without a ninja turtle named after them.
da Vinci
Botticelli
Vermeer
Bruegel
Eworth
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.
Last edited by Elendil's Heir; 23 Nov 2011 at 12:01 AM.
Cool, thanks! And since I appear to have stumped us, let's let the turtles in:
Name five famous pre-19th Century painters.
Last edited by OneCentStamp; 23 Nov 2011 at 12:05 AM.
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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
Newton
Einstein
Niels Bohr
Heisenberg
Erwin Schrödinger
Name 5 proto-types for the Mad Scientist concept:
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.
Mars
Snickers
Picnic
Boost
KitKat
Name 5 types of cloud.
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.
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.
I'll substitute Christmas instead: Sleep, Watch TV, Read a book, Go for a Walk, Play Video Games.
Name 5 things that are sticky
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
glue
blood
chewing gum
tree sap
a stick
Name five famous cross dressers.
Ru Paul
Billy Tipton
Ed Wood
Joan of Arc
John Lithgow
Name five books that have been banned somewhere.
Candide
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher in the Rye
The Satanic Verses
Lolita
Name five famous real-world spies.
Kim Philby
Donald Maclean
Guy Burgess
Anthony Blunt
John Cairncross.
Name five giant mutant creatures
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Godzilla
Them! (giant ants)
Mothra
King Ghidorah
Yao Ming
Name five non-famous siblings of famous people
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.
Um...mercy? I have "The Dark Lady," then bupkes. Want to dunk your own rebound, Elendil's Heir?
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.
(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
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Wensleydale
Cheddar
Caerphilly
Stinking Bishop
Stilton
Name 5 English or Scottish Castles.
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.
(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.
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.
(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).
Sandy Hook Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Redd Pond
Name 5 cities you've been to.
(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.
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.
James Dean
Aaliyah
Amy Winehouse
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Name 5 films with a number in the title.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
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.
(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.
Elizabeth Taylor
Henry VIII
Jane Seymour
Emperor Claudius
Charlie Chaplin
Name 5 people who have played Sherlock Holmes
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Jeremy Brett (still the best, IMHO)
Robert Downey Jr.
Stewart Granger
Nikolay Volkov
Matt Frewer
Name five decommissioned or lost U.S. submarines
USS Scorpion
USS Thresher
USS Hi, Buckeye!
(uncle?)
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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.
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.
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.
Menorah
Latkes
Matzoh
Dreidel
Lame gifts (or so I am told)
Name five types of cloud.
Last edited by RabbitMage; 20 Dec 2011 at 10:40 PM.
Cumulonimbus
Cirrus
Cumulus
Altostratus
Cirrostratus
Name 5 brands of watch.
Well, the OP said "no Googling." I took that as a blanket proscription of online help.
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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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
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