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    Lose just a little bit of that christmas weight.
    Learn a new computer langauge
    Clear the garage out.
    Grow some potatoes
    Learn to cook a proper risotto

    Just for the hell of it.

    Name five different diets
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Atkins
    South Beach
    Zone
    raw food
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    Name five formerly popular medical practices now in disrepute.

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    bleeding
    trepanning
    lobotomy
    electroshock treatment
    not bothering with informed consent

    I suppose there are still some legitimate applications for some of these, but much less than before.

    Name five famous people who did at least some prison time.

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    Mike Tyson
    Martha Stewart
    Michael Vick
    Leadbelly
    G. Gordon Liddy

    Name five famous people who entered their country's military after they were already famous (for something else).
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    Elvis Presley, U.S. Army
    Princess Elizabeth, British Auxiliary Territorial Service, WWII
    Prince Andrew, Royal Navy, Falklands War
    Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, British Army, Boer War
    Jimmy Stewart, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII

    Stewart's service, in particular, was remarkable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_S...litary_service

    Name five popular kinds of soup.

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    Oh, Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorite people. The more you learn about him, the more interviews you read or watch, the cooler he gets.

    menudo
    pho
    minestrone
    Manhattan clam chowder (actually from Rhode Island!)
    Senate Navy Bean Soup, a staple in my parents' house, growing up.

    Name five sports that have only become Olympic sports in the last 50 years.
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    I liked this note from the Wiki article: "After viewing It's a Wonderful Life, President Harry S Truman said, 'If Bess and I had a son we'd want him to be just like Jimmy Stewart.'"

    triathlon
    canoe/kayak
    beach volleyball
    rhythmic gymnastics
    table tennis

    Name five disgraced athletes, and why.

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    Barry Bonds - Steroids abuse and generally poor relations with press
    Jose Canseco - Steroid Abuse and extremely poor relations with humanity
    Lawrence Taylor - Cocaine abuser as player and caught with an underage prostitute in last few years
    Shoeless Joe Jackson - Failed to turn in teammates and gamblers that threw the 1919 World Series.
    Bill Buckner - Poor sap let a ball go through his legs in the 1986 World Series Game 6 and allows the Mets to come back and win and the following day leading to another 17 years without Boston winning the World Series.

    Name five states that became states after the revolution but before the civil war.

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    Vermont
    Maine
    Illinois
    Louisiana
    Texas

    Name five orders of Catholic monks or nuns.
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    Benedictines
    Cistercians
    Trappists
    Jesuits
    Carmelites

    Name five failed U.S. presidential candidates from before 1964.

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    (Who failed, or who failed and never did succeed? I'll go with the latter.)

    William Jennings Bryan
    Henry Clay
    Stephen Douglas
    Strom Thurmond
    Thomas Dewey, who did not defeat Truman after all.

    Name five Presidents who ran unsuccessfully before winning.
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    Not all of these won their party's nomination the first time out, but each "ran unsuccessfully before winning."

    Thomas Jefferson - lost 1796, won 1800
    George H.W. Bush - lost 1980, won 1988
    Ronald Reagan - lost 1968 and 1976, won 1980
    Richard Nixon - lost 1960, won 1968
    Lyndon Johnson - lost 1960, won 1964

    Name five important treaties.
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    North Atlantic Treaty (NATO)
    Treaty of Versailles (Napoleon)
    Treaty of Paris (WWI)
    UN Charter
    Magna Carta (1215 England)

    Name 5 famous formulas.

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    Pythagoras Therom
    Fermat's Last Thereom
    Riemann Hypothesis
    Bernoulli's principle
    Euler's Identity

    Name 5 Buildings older than 2,000 years old.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    the Parthenon
    the Ka'aba
    the Colosseum
    the Great Pyramid at Giza
    the Maison Carrée

    Name five expensive watch brands.

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    Tag Heuer
    Rolex
    Cartier
    Corum
    Turler

    Name five important aristocrats or nobles who never rose to rule their countries.

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    Hugh le Despenser
    John of Gaunt
    Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
    James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Forgot he was a regent for James VI.
    George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
    Madame de Pompadour

    Name 5 popular BBC shows.
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    Doctor Who
    Coupling
    The IT Crowd
    Monty Python's Flying Circus
    Fawlty Towers

    Name 5 Sci-Fi movies from before Star Wars.

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    Logan's Run
    Planet of the Apes
    A Clockwork Orange
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Barbarella


    Name five papal names that have been used by more than three different Popes.
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    Innocent
    Clement
    Boniface
    John
    Benedict

    Name five animals that you consider particularly cool.

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    bears
    turtles
    whales
    lemurs
    magpies

    Name five LotR characters who possessed the One Ring and gave it up without dying in the process.
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    Bilbo
    Sam
    Tom
    Frodo
    Sauron (well he set it aside at one point)

    Gollum lost it and did not choose to give it up.

    Name 5 Yankee legends

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    Babe Ruth
    Lou Gehrig
    Mickey Mantle
    Mariano Rivera
    Derek Jeter

    Name five sports franchises who moved cities and kept their name even though it made no sense in the new location.
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    Memphis Grizzlies
    LA Lakers
    LA Dodgers were the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers
    Utah Jazz
    Braves started as the alliterate Boston Braves

    Name 5 breeds of dogs.

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    Akita
    Siberian Husky
    Cocker Spaniel
    Greyhound
    German Shepherd

    Name 5 breeds of cats.
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    Siamese
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    Brown Tabby
    Manx
    Russian Blue

    Name five species of bird commonly kept as pets.
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    parrot
    cockatoo
    parakeet
    macaw
    myna

    Name five movies you love and wish more people had seen.

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    "Love" might be strong in a few cases here, but these are five that I've quite enjoyed and were either flops or seem largely unknown:

    The Blood of Heroes
    Solarbabies
    Titan A.E.
    Purgatory Flats
    The Scent of Green Papaya

    Name five underappreciated works by famous musicians.
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    Titan A.E. is the only one of those I've seen. My own list would include:

    Breaker Morant
    Limitless
    The Hidden
    Dark City
    Memento


    Hmm. I can't think of five answers to fit your category, so consider it repeated.
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    (after some thinking, I could only come up with four)

    - Robert Plant, Now and Zen. His solo work generally gets short shrift because he's so closely (and rightly) associated with Led Zeppelin, but this really was a very good and surprising rock album.
    - Beethoven's Second Symphony. 5, 6, and 9 seem to get the most play, but I've seen the Second Symphony performed live twice and was absolutely floored both times.
    - Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel of Love. Anything that came right after Born in the U.S.A. was bound to pale in comparison. Props to Bruce for not trying to duplicate his mega-smash. I love this album.
    - Green Day, Insomniac. Sandwiched in between their 10-million-album-selling, MTV dominating phase and their multi-Grammy-winning, adapted for Broadway phase, a dark, underappreciated gem.

    Name five Gilded Age industrial robber barons.
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    To make it five, I'll add the Electric Light Orchestra, A New World Record. One great song after another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_World_Record

    Now then:

    Jay Gould
    Jim Fisk
    Cornelius Vanderbilt
    Andrew Carnegie
    J.P. Morgan

    Name five people from the past hundred years who should have gone to prison, but didn't.
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    O.J. Simpson
    Ken Lay
    Osama bin Laden
    Josef Mengele
    Pol Pot

    Name five non-radioactive elements that are very poisonous to humans.
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    Lead
    Flourine
    Neon
    Argon
    Tungsten

    At least, you wouldn't want to (exclusively) breathe, consume or be injected with these elements, I presume. Am I right?

    Name five elements named after nonmythical human beings.

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    Rutherfordium
    Curium
    Einsteinium
    Bohrium
    Americium (at second hand)

    Name five famous animal actors.
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    Rin Tin Tin
    Benji
    Trigger
    Mr. Ed
    Eddie (Frasier)

    Name five very expensive foods.

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    foie gras
    Kobe beef
    saffron
    caviar
    truffles

    Name five warplanes no longer in use.
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    B-17
    B-32
    F4U Corsair
    F6F- Hellcat
    Sopwith Camel

    Name 5 books about King Arthur or his Knights.

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    Le Morte d'Arthur - Thomas Malory
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anonymous
    The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff
    Firelord - Parke Godwin

    Name 5 knights of the Round Table

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    Percival
    Bors
    Gareth
    Gawain
    Lancelot

    Name 5 of Jesus' apostles.
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    Matthew
    Mark
    Luke
    John
    Judas

    Name five Third World hellholes you hope never to visit.

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    That's hard to say, as the only ones I'd be leery of visiting would be ones that are unsafe because they're war-torn or currently stricken by natural disasters. Here's five for right now:

    Somalia
    Haiti
    Congo
    Iraq
    Afghanistan

    Name five athletes that are Hall of Famers in their chosen sport both as a player and in some other capacity (coach/executive/broadcaster/etc.).
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    OK, so I looked and realized that Mike Ditka is not yet in the HoF as a coach, and therefore I was left with only four:

    Lenny Wilkens (pro basketball)
    Dan Gable (college wrestling)
    John Wooden (college basketball)
    Bill Sharman (pro basketball)

    (Sorry!)

    Name five famously supposedly haunted sites.
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    Tower of London
    Edinburgh Castle
    Winchester Mystery House
    The House of Seven Gables
    The St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans

    Name five famous beaches.

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    Cape Hatteras, N.C.
    Omaha Beach, Normandy
    Atlantic City, N.J.
    Virginia Beach, Va.
    Palm Beach, Fla.

    Name five songs by The Tijuana Brass
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    Wow, a flashback to riding in the car with my dad. Thanks, EH!

    "Spanish Flea"
    "This Guy's In Love With You"
    "A Taste of Honey"
    "Tijuana Taxi"
    "Whipped Cream"

    Name five animals prized for their fur.
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    Mink
    Seal
    Rabbit
    Ermine
    Fox

    And a pox on those that wear fox!

    Name five circus animals.

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    sable
    mink
    chinchilla
    beaver
    fox


    elephants
    lions
    tigers
    horses
    goats dressed up as unicorns

    Name five types of fish kept as pets.
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    betta
    tetra
    koi
    goldfish
    clownfish

    Name five species of animal found in the wild only in Australia.
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    Kangaroo
    Platypus
    Dingo
    Koala
    Emu

    Name five noteworthy Australians.

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    Paul Hogan
    Bon Scott
    Rod Laver
    Steve Irwin
    James Clavell

    Name five famous Japanese baseball players.
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