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
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.
Atkins
South Beach
Zone
raw food
Paleo
Name five formerly popular medical practices now in disrepute.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
the Parthenon
the Ka'aba
the Colosseum
the Great Pyramid at Giza
the Maison Carrée
Name five expensive watch brands.
Tag Heuer
Rolex
Cartier
Corum
Turler
Name five important aristocrats or nobles who never rose to rule their countries.
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.
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.
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
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.
Akita
Siberian Husky
Cocker Spaniel
Greyhound
German Shepherd
Name 5 breeds of cats.
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Siamese
Maine Coon
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paul Hogan
Bon Scott
Rod Laver
Steve Irwin
James Clavell
Name five famous Japanese baseball players.
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