Manipulative
Self Centred
Uncaring
Lazy
Dismissive
And those are just my good points.
Name 5 things no office should ever be without
Manipulative
Self Centred
Uncaring
Lazy
Dismissive
And those are just my good points.
Name 5 things no office should ever be without
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
coffee maker
refrigerator
backup power supply
sticky notes
pens
Name brands of candy or gum that are no longer produced.
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CIAS, those are shortcomings more than "nicknames," don't you think?
Reset!
Name five ancient tribes/nations native to South or Central America.
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Olmec
Aztec
Maya
Inca
Moche
Name five tribes/nations native to North America.
How about the Five Civilized Tribes Five Nations That Didn't Actively (and deservedly, in most cases) Loathe Us And Even Learned Some English?
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Creek
Seminole
Name five places where gambling is legal.
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Atlantic City
Las Vegas
Monte Carlo
Detroit
Cleveland (our first casino to open next week!)
Name five characters in The Avengers.
Thor
Tony Stark
Nick Fury
Steve Rogers
Bruce Banner
Name Five Characters from the Alien Films
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Ellen Ripley
Newt
Bishop
Vasquez
... Bill Paxton? (Private William Hudson, apparently)
Name 5 movies with Ron Perlman in the cast.
Quest for Fire
The City of Lost Children
Hellboy
Alien Resurrection
Star Trek Nemesis
Name five movie bad guys of the past 20 years.
Loki (The Avengers)
Guy of Lusignan (Kingdom of Heaven)
Col. Nathan Jessup (A Few Good Men)
Cal Hockley (Titanic)
Bill (Kill Bill, Vols. 1 & 2)
Name five courtroom drama films.
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Breaker Morant
Inherit the Wind
Presumed Innocent
Runaway Jury
A Time to Kill
The first is my favorite.
Name five military movies that don't focus on actual battlefield action.
Private Benjamin
Sgt. Bilko
Good Morning, Vietnam
A Few Good Men
Men of Honor
Name five classic sports movies.
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Field of Dreams
Friday Night Lights
Bull Durham
The Mighty Ducks
A League of Their Own
Name 5 Michael Bay movies.
How fast can I type while holding my nose? Let's see:
Transformers
Armageddon
Bad Boys
Pearl Harbor
The Rock
OK, palate cleanser: Name 5 really awesome movies that not enough people saw.
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The Hidden
Breaker Morant
Memento
The Package
Limitless
The last is my favorite movie of all last year - shut out of the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc., alas.
Name five overrated actors (not actresses).
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Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Hugh Laurie
Patrick Stewart
Al Pacino
Name five underrated actors (not actresses).
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Stanley Tucci
Mark Strong
Andrew Lincoln
Anthony LaPaglia
John Mahoney
Name five overrated actresses (not actors).
Renee Zellweger
Angelina Jolie
ZOOEY DESCHANEL
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Julia Roberts
Name five underrated actresses (not actors).
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Diane Lane
Glenne Headly
Keira Knightley
Louise Fletcher
Frances McDormand
Name five pop songs that make you lunge to change the radio station.
Ack...most of the ones I jump to change, I don't know the names of!
Neon Trees, "Everybody Talks"
Neon Trees, "Animal"
Foster the People, "Pumped up Kicks"
Mumford & Sons, "Sigh no More"
anything by Adele
Name five movies that, if you catch them in the middle of the film while flipping channels, you're pretty much hooked in until the end.
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I really like "Animal," and several songs of Adele's. The rest I'm meh about. Oh, well!
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Trading Places
True Lies
The Hidden
Casablanca
Name five especially talented film directors.
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Luc Besson
Quentin Tarantino
Alfonso Cuaron
Name five crummy film directors.
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Harold P. Warren (Manos: Hands of Fate)
Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky)
Willard Huyck (Howard the Duck)
Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth)
Name five movies you want to see this summer.
Snow White and the Huntsman
The Dark Knight Rises
Prometheus
Brave
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
(Also Spiderman)
Name 5 cartoons you watched as a child.
He-Man
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Voltron
Name five foods you loved as a kid, but not so much now.
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(Orual, those are all on my to-see list, too!)
Fish with my mom's famous glaze - seems incredibly salty to me now
Strawberry milk - too sweet for me nowadays, pretty much
Hostess fruit pies - 'way too much fat
Bubble gum - too much sugar; uncouth
Waffles - just don't enjoy them as much; hard to say why
I have to say, though, that I've retained most of my childhood tastes for food.
Name five memorable movie villains.
Darth Vader
Hannibal Lecter
The Joker (give me the Heath Ledger version)
Principal Ed Rooney
Lord Voldemort
Name five movies with amazing special effects (now, or for their era).
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Star Wars - well, everything
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - the UFOs
Titanic - pretty much everything, too
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - the liquid-metal assassin
The Abyss - the aliens; the pseudopod
Name five of your relatives' first names.
Michael
Elizabeth
Gabriel
Adam
Abigail
(Those are my kids.)
Name five names that could easily be for a man or a woman.
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Jordan
Devin
Kendall
Grayson
Robin
Name five Doctor Seuss characters.
Bartholomew Cubbins (!)
The Lorax
The Cat in the Hat
Thing 1
Thing 2
Name 5 television shows with rabid fan bases.
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Star Trek
Firefly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lost
American Idol
Name five TV shows you regret were cancelled.
Sledge Hammer
Transformers (the 80s version)
Six Feet Under (I only watched it years afterwards on DVD, but I was sad when it ended.)
Bizarre (it was the naughty, after-the-parents-were-asleep guilty pleasure of my childhood)
The Joker's Wild (My favorite TV game show of my parents' era...)
Name five "comic relief" characters from popular fiction.
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Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation
The argumentative Italian and French officers in Casablanca
Dets. Thompson and Thompson in Tintin
Bill Murray in Tootsie
The nerdy accountant in Ghostbusters
Name five more-or-less serious characters in a popular comedy (book, film or TV).
The mayor in Ghostbusters
The receptionist on Veep
K in Men in Black
Jeeves in the Jeeves & Wooster stories
Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H
Name five great roles of your favorite actor.
General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove
Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
General George S. Patton in Patton
Bert Gordon in The Hustler
John Rainbird in Firestarter
Name five great roles of your favorite actress.
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Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth
Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings
Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
Marissa Wiegler in Hanna
Sheba Hart in Notes on a Scandal
Name five video games you enjoy playing.
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Final Fantasy VII
Tomb Raider
Sly II
Ratchet and Clank
Okami
Name 5 video game heroes
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Cloud Strife
Pac-Man
Max Payne
Kratos
Sonic
Name 5 video game villains or end bosses.
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Nemesis
Pyramid Head
Doc Oc
The Joker
Bowser
Name five famous horses.
Trigger
Secretariat
Cigar
Seattle Slew
Mr. Ed
Name five famous people who emigrated to the United States since 1900.
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Albert Einstein
Jennifer Granholm
Madeline Albright
Ahnuld
Golda Meir
Name five notable prime ministers from five different countries.
Julia Gillard
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Pierre Trudeau
Indira Gandhi
Name 5 classic comic strip authors
Bill Watterson
Gary Larson
Charles Schulz
Jim Davis
Bil Keane
Name five famous comic strips that are now defunct.
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Calvin and Hobbes
The Yellow Kid
Agatha Crumm
Dondi
Tim Tyler's Luck
Name five famous comic strips that really ought to be defunct.
I picked up a copy of the newspaper, and once I did, it was hard to limit myself to five. Man, comic strips suck.
The Family Circus
Cathy
Tank McNamara
Pearls Before Swine
The Lockhorns
Name five really great moments in your life.
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Getting an acceptance letter from my first-choice college.
Stepping off the plane in Micronesia, knowing I was about to start a tropical island adventure.
The birth of my son.
Pulling off a very successful and clever 50th birthday party for my husband.
A day at George's Island off the coast of Boston - much too complicated a story to explain in a single phrase, but a day of wonderful adventure and unexpected bonding
I feel like my wedding should be on the list, but as much as I adore my husband, the wedding itself was a drag - my mother, possibly the only person in the universe to take the "Preppy Handbook" as an actual guide for how to lead one's life, planned and executed the whole thing. My husband and I dutifully endured it. Perhaps "going to Burger King at midnight together after the wedding was over" should be on my list; we both remember our relief and happiness at that moment very fondly.
Name five TV sitcom nerds, from five different shows. For purposes of this thread, I shall define "TV sitcom nerd" as "a character who is so intelligent that their brains interfere with their social functioning, and that's a running gag of the show."
Abed Nadir, Community
Steve Urkel, Family Matters
Maurice Moss, The IT Crowd
Martin Prince, The Simpsons
Phil & Lem, Better Off Ted
Name 5 well-known/popular/cultish TV shows that you just have never been able to get into.
Dr. Who
Lost
Blackadder
Dallas
Survivor
Name five movies you know you ought to see but just never have.