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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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_RevengeQuote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
So I'll add: HMS Pinafore (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Name five brands of candy bar.
Cool, thanks! And since I appear to have stumped us, let's let the turtles in:
Name five famous pre-19th Century painters. :)
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.)
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
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
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." :P
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.
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? :D
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.
Arwen
Galadriel
Eonwe
Rosie Cotton
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
Name 5 different English Cheeses
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?) :P
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).
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 :mad:
"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.
"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.
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
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?)
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. :P
Name 5 Jewish holidays.
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.
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. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Nonsense! My gift from artifex last night, the first night of Hanukkah, was a set of Glencairns! :DQuote:
Originally posted by RabbitMage
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.
Clearly, I spend too much time in big box retailers. :fail:
Tommy Hilfiger
Mossimo
Calvin Klein
Isaac Mizrahi
Elio Fiorucci
Anyone want to throw out the next one?
Name 5 things you would throw off a shipQuote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
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.
spasibo
gracias
merci
danke
thanks
Name five things you'd (realistically) like to do in 2012
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Siamese
Maine Coon
Brown Tabby
Manx
Russian Blue
Name five species of bird commonly kept as pets.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
O.J. Simpson
Ken Lay
Osama bin Laden
Josef Mengele
Pol Pot
Name five non-radioactive elements that are very poisonous to humans.
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.
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.
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.
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.).
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.
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
Wow, a flashback to riding in the car with my dad. Thanks, EH! :D
"Spanish Flea"
"This Guy's In Love With You"
"A Taste of Honey"
"Tijuana Taxi"
"Whipped Cream"
Name five animals prized for their fur.
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.
betta
tetra
koi
goldfish
clownfish
Name five species of animal found in the wild only in Australia.
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.
Minoru Murayama
Sadaharu Oh
Wally Kaname Yonamine
Tadashi Sugiura
Victor Starffin
Yes, he should be on the list, too, even with a name like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Starffin
Name five movies that always make you laugh.
(Wow, without even naming any of the recent Japanese MLB stars!)
Airplane!
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Plains, Trains and Automobiles
The Hangover
Spaceballs
Name 5 famous B-movies.
The Terror of Tiny Town
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Cat People
Reefer Madness
The Tingler
Don't be too impressed by my Japanese baseball acumen. Once again, I had to resort to Wiki.
Name five famous diplomats.
Benjamin Franklin
Jimmy Carter
Henry Kissinger
the Dalai Lama
John Negroponte
Name five famous long-term romantic couples who never legally wed.
Kissinger
Theodore Roosevelt
Madeleine Albright
Boutros Boutros Gali
John Adams
Japanese players
Hideki Matsui
Hiroki Kuroda
Yu Darvish
Ichiro
Hideki Irabu
Name 5 Famous actresses of the 30s
Ninja'd, What Exit, you've been ninja'd. :D
Greta Garbo
Shirley Temple
Olivia de Havilland
Judy Garland
Myrna Loy
Name five famous long-term romantic couples who never legally wed.
Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Louis XV and Madame Pompadour
Edward VII and Alice Keppel
Name five marriages that lasted less than a year.
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra
Britney Spears and that dude from her hometown that she married for like a weekend.
Name five wars that took place mostly or entirely in the Middle East.
Yom Kippur War
Six-Day War
Israeli War of Independence
Iran-Iraq War
Gulf War I
Name five irritating sounds.
Celine Dion
That Geico pig going WEEEEEEEEeeeeee!
Fingernails on chalkboard
Celine Dion (I know I said her twice but she is that irritating)
Seaman Pinder (seriously he was like that over-the-top squeeky voice guy Eddie Deezen that played nothing but geeks in the 70s & 80s but Pinder was even higher pitched and annoying)
Name 5 actors with more then 5 movie roles from SNL
(Hell, I'll give you "more than ten.") :)
Adam Sandler
Mike Myers
Dana Carvey
Eddie Murphy
Steve Martin
Name five political parties that have put a candidate (President or VP) in the White House.
Republicans
Democrats
Whigs
Federalist
Democratic-Republican
:sci:Steve Martin was not actually a member of SNL. So how about Dan Aykroyd instead..
Name 5 members of Clinton's cabinet.
Henry Cisneros, HUD
Lloyd Bentsen, Treasury
William Perry, Defense
Madeleine Albright, State
Janet Reno, Justice
Name five political thrillers.
Interface, Neal Stephenson
The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon
The Brethren, John Grisham
Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy
Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey
Name five musical artists who have (or will have, by next Monday) played a Super Bowl halftime show.
Black Eyed Peas
U2
Rolling Stones
Janet Jackson
Paul McCartney
Name five movies that should have every copy hunted down and destroyed.
This is hard, because a lot of really bad movies are so-bad-they're-funny, and I'd hate to lose them. Here are five that are just plain bad:
Double Impact
Freddy Got Fingered
Son of the Mask
Dungeons & Dragons (& Wayans?!)
Jack Frost
Name five notoriously edgy comedians.
Sam Kinison
Bobcat Goldthwait
Andrew Dice Clay
Richard Pryor
Richard Schimmel
Name five styles of hats.
fedora
stetson
porkpie
pillbox
beret
Name five famous real-life gangsters.
Al Capone
Lucky Luciano
John Gotti
Santo Traficante
Billy Bulger (why should the Italians have all the fun?)
Name five famous Irish (not Irish-American) people.
Paul "Bono Vox" Hewson
Sinead O'Connor
James Joyce
Bobby Sands
Liam Neeson
Name five famous living people born in Africa.
Alek Wek
Djimon Hounsou
Desmond Tutu
Nelson Mandela
Charlize Theron
Name five female comedians.
Minnie Pearl
Margaret Cho
Carol Burnett
Chelsea Handler
Sarah Silverman
Name five attempted genocides.
Rwanda
The Holocaust
Bosnia
Carthage
Turkey v. Armenians
Name five notable peacemakers.
Henry Kissinger
David Lloyd-George
Pope John Paul II
Dag Hammarskjöld
Colt Revolver
Name 5 Famous Cats
Morris
Felix
Sylvester
Baby (as in Bringing Up ...)
Leo (MGM lion)
Name 5 movie studios
Universal
Miramax
Disney
Dreamworks
Paramount
Name five defunct computer manufacturers.
Wang
EMachines
Qume
Compaq
Zeos
Name five Aztec gods.
Quetzalcoatl
Huitzilopochtli
Tlaloc
Coatlicue
Atlaua
Name five comic strips that were, or have been, in print for over 10 years.
Foxtrot
Bloom County
The Far Side
Calvin and Hobbs
Peanuts
Name 5 sitcoms from before 1990.
What's Happening
The Jeffersons
Good Times
Sanford & Son
Diff'rent Strokes
Name five people who survived assassination attempts.
Teddy Roosevelt!
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
Gerald Ford
Nixon
Name 5 classic board games
Monopoly
Risk
Life
Stratego
Candy Land
Name five popular card games.
Uno
Texas Hold 'Em
Bridge
Go Fish
Magic: The Gathering
Name five great songs of Whitney Houston (in memoriam; her death was just reported tonight).
Holy crap, she wasn't even 50 yet. :(
The Greatest Love of All
Saving All My Love for You
How Will I Know
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Name 5 performers that died before turning 50.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Gilda Radner
Tupac Shakur
Heath Ledger
Jimi Hendrix
Name five people who were executed.
Harry "Breaker" Morant
Nathan Hale
John Andre
Mary Surratt
Julius Rosenberg
Name five people who were acquitted.
O.J. Simpson
Lorena Bobbitt
Casey Anthony
Michael Jackson
R. Kelly
Name five birthstones.
Sapphire
Ruby
Topaz
Emerald
Diamond
Name five famous birthplaces.
in the USA (Bruce Springsteen)
a mountaintop in Tennessee (Davy Crockett)
back seat of a Greyhound bus drivin' down Hwy 41 (a Ramblin' Man)
a small town (John Mellencamp; specifically, Seymour, Indiana)
in a crossfire hurricane (Jumpin' Jack Flash)
Name five brands of candy your grandparents would have recognized as children.
Neeco Brand wafers
Tootsie roll
Clark bar
Candy sticks
Butterscotch candies
Name 5 good diet foods.
1) unbuttered popcorn (shaken with a small spritz of canola oil and a hearty shake of chili powder is nice)
2) low fat string cheese/mozzarella sticks
3) edamame (!!!!)
4) tuna salad, dressed with mustard or homemade vinaigrette instead of mayo
5) broccoli, roasted in the oven with salt and red pepper flake
Name five famous hurricanes.
Camille, 1969
Andrew, 1992
Carter, 1999*
Katrina, 2005
Ike, 2008
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurricane_(1999_film)
Name five tools you really need.
Band Saw
Hammer
Cordless Drill
Square
Sander
Name 5 tools you don't need.
Jackhammer
Cherrypicker
Sledgehammer
Sonic screwdriver
Magnaspanner
Name five terrible names for a cat.
Mr Obedient
Lil' Puppy
Lassie
Mr Ed
spitz :p
Name 5 names parents should never have called their kids.
All-celeb edition!
Kal-El (Nicolas Cage's son)
Bear Blu (Alicia Silverstone's son)
Moroccan (Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's son)
Zuma Nesta Rock (Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale's daughter)
Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee's son)
Name 5 practices that used to be considered healthy, but have fallen into disfavor.
Smoking
Bleeding (medical treatment)
Eating steak and eggs
Drinking whole milk
Electroshock treatment
Name five failed politicians from before 1950.
I can't speak for the rest of the gang, but I have tried this one a couple of times and bogged down each time. :fail:
OK, I'll do it:
John Nance Garner
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
Aaron Burr
George McClellan
Name five failed politicians since 1950.
Hell, I could name that many just from this GOP campaign, if I wanted! :P
Ross Perot
Walter Mondale
Rod Blagojevich
Ralph Nader
Jerry Springer
Name five famous natural disasters.
Hurricane Katrina
Mount Saint Helens
Pompeii
Tunguska
The Perfect Storm
Name five famous naturalists or conservationists.
Rachel Carson
John James Audubon
Charles Darwin
Jane Goodall
Gregor Mendel
Name five famous televangelists who have not (yet, if you're a cynic) been utterly disgraced.
Billy Graham
Franklin Graham
Jack Van Impe
Mother Angelica
Pat Robertson
Name 5 scientists with TV shows.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Bill Nye
Carl Sagan
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
Alton Brown :D
Name 5 people who had talk shows after already being famous for something else.
Well, as for Pat Robertson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_rob...and_criticisms
Dr. Phil
Ellen DeGeneres
Charles Grodin
Chevy Chase
Wayne Brady
Name five terrible actors (not actresses).
Steven Seagal
Chris Tucker
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Carrot Top
Marlon Wayans
Name 5 great actors who are/were never leading man material.
Jeff Daniels
Claude Rains
John Cazale
David Hyde Pierce
James Doohan
Name 5 great actresses who are/were never leading woman material.
Kathy Bates
Angela Lansbury
Frances McDormand
Anjelica Huston
Cloris Leachman
Name five obsolete sports strategies or techniques (e.g. two handed set shots in basketball).
Maybe you'd better try another, OCS.
Sure, but let me take a stab at my own, first:
The T formation (football)
The Single Wing (football)
The "palms-up" boxing stance (picture a white, mustachioed bare-knuckle fighter from 1905 and you know what I mean)
The forkball (baseball, pretty much completely supplanted by the change-up, the four-seam, and the split-finger fastball)
OK, that was unexpectedly hard. :fail:
Name five flowers people commonly grow in their home gardens.
Rose
Pansy
Busy Lizzies
Lobelia
Dahlia
Couple of extra obsolete sports ones:
Cricket: Underarm bowling
High Jump: Hurdle technique
Sprint Atheletics: Standing start
Name 5 sandwich fillings
(Ooh, nice, hurdle technique, rendered instantly obsolete by the Fosbury flop.)
cheese
peanut butter
Marmite
falafel
meat
Name 5 wine varieties not native to France or Italy.
Another toughie....
Riesling (Germany)
Liebraumilch (Germany)
Rioja (Spain)
Sherry (Spain)
Madeira (Portugal)
Name five species of rodent.
field mice
black rats
red squirrels
porcupines
Capybara
Name five aquatic mammals.
dolphin
orca
sperm whale
blue whale
narwhal
Name five amphibians.
poison arrow frog
red-spotted newt
hellbender salamander <--- awesome name
Bullfrog
Axolotl <--- even awesomer name
Name five animals from Medieval bestiaries.
(Child's play! I'm a D&D guy.) :hist:
leucrotta
catoblepas
amphisbaena
manticore
phoenix
Name five sports that involve the use of a bicycle.
...Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Show off.
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Time trials
BMX
Mountain biking
Track cycling
Name 5 'extreme' sports that are events in the Olympic Games.
Snowboarding
BMX
Beach volleyball
Triathlon
Skeleton
Name five Olympic gold medal winners of the past decade other than from the U.S., Soviet Union, Russia or China.
Denise Lewis
Chris Hoy
Victoria Pendleton
Rebecca Adlington
Kelly Holmes
Hey the Brits have won a few too you know. :D
Name 5 sports no longer included in the olympics
polo
golf
rugby
lacrosse
croquet
Name five very endangered (but not extinct) animals.
Cheetah
Panda
Axolotl
California Condor
Red Wolf
Name five titles of religious officials.
Pope
Dalai Lama
Ayatollah
Rabbi
President (Mormonism)
Name five theocratic governments, past or present.
Deseret
Iran
Vatican City
Kingdom of Israel
Tibet
Name five key dates in world history, and explain why.
June 15, 1215: King John signs the Magna Carta, setting forth in writing for the first time in Western history (that I'm aware of; I'm certainly nervous laying this out for EH's scrutiny) the idea that a monarch's power is not absolute, but is subject to the rule of law, even if they are laws of the monarch's own making.
September 11, 2001: The deadliest foreign attack ever on United States soil touched off two wars that are still being fought, caused sweeping changes in American law, and generally set the tone of international relations from that day to the present.
April 5, 1930: Gandhi takes a pinch of salt from the shore of the Indian Ocean, setting in motion the (largely) nonviolent struggle for independence of the world's second most populous country. He was right about pretty much everything.
November 9, 1989: Protestors begin openly hammering on the Berlin Wall and walking unopposed through the Brandenburg Gate. Marked the beginning of the end of Eastern European communism.
May or June, 313: Constantine issues the Edict of Milan, allowing Christianity to turn from a phenomenally successful underground movement into the de facto official religion of the Roman Empire. Changed...pretty much everything since.
Name five once-great or important cities that are not so much anymore.
All arguable, of course:
Damascus
Carthage
Rome
Kyoto
Richmond, Va.
Name five things you wished you'd done for St. Patrick's Day.
drunk less
eaten less
given more hugs
visited Ireland
worn green
...but in my defense, I do congratulate myself on staying safely at home tonight. St. Paddy's, NYE, and July 4th are three days I religiously do not drive at night.
Name five words or expressions you find yourself overusing.
"Don't do that to the dog."
"We can't afford it."
"Because I'm your father."
"Keira, I'm sorry, but...."
"Mr. President, I would suggest...."
OK, only three of those. I'll leave you to figure out which three.
Name five islands you'd like to visit.
Britain
Ireland
Cuba
Hong Kong
Manhattan
Name five comic books that have not been adapted into a feature film.
A Contract with God
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
He Done Her Wrong
It Rhymes With Lust
Bloodstar
Name five books, never yet made into movies, that you'd love to see filmed.
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Name five notable healers.
(I, Robot has been made into a movie, just a terrible one.)
Padre Pio
Jesus Christ
Florence Nightingale
Ed Cayce
Harry Edwards
Name five famous stage magicians.
I know, I know. But the Will Smith movie is different enough I don't even really consider it to be Asimov's I, Robot.
Harry Houdini
The Amazing Kreskin
Dr. Strange
Mandrake the Magician
Penn and Teller
Name five famous hoaxes.
The Loch Ness Monster
The Shroud of Turin
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Piltdown Man
The Cardiff Giant
Name five famous entertainers who use(d) a stage name, and their original given names.
Well, the jury's still out on the Shroud of Turin, isn't it?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_turin
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch)
Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm)
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.)
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson)
Mary Pickford (born Gladys Marie Smith)
Name five roles of Lee Marvin.
the guy who picked and led The Dirty Dozen
Liberty Valance
the old sergeant in The Big Red One
the gunfighter in Cat Ballou
the other gunfighter in Cat Ballou
Name five actors who always seem to play bad guys/gals.
Of course there have been exceptions in their careers, but...
John Malkovich
Anthony Hopkins
Tony Perkins
Maximilian Schell
Mae West
Name five books that really ought to never have been made into films.
First Blood
The Adjustment Bureau
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Twice! If you can't handle the ending, don't make the goddamn movie.)
Dune (I love the book, but too much of it takes place inside the people's heads.)
The Stand (Stephen King should require a $100M deposit before signing away the rights again, just to ensure production values.)
Name five professions/industries that have either been endangered, or rendered completely obsolete, by the advent of the internet.
Travel agent
Research librarian
Ticket clerk
Cartographer
Personal shopper
Name five people who ought to appear on currency (but don't now), and in which country.
Theodore Roosevelt (USA)
Nikola Tesla (Croatia)
Leon Trotsky (Russia)
Bob Marley (Jamaica)
Mohandas Gandhi (India)
Name five species of shark.
Great White
Whale
Tiger
Lemon
MEGALODON :madsci:
Name five species of canid.
Grey Wolf
Arctic Fox
Japanese Raccoon Dog
Coyote
Golden Jackal
Name five species of bear.
Brown
Grizzly
Black
Cave
Sugar
OneCentStamp, check it out: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...3-2l2l0.frgbld.
Name five kinds of big cats.
Gah, there's Ben Kingsley all over my rupees!Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Tiger
Lion
Cheetah
Leopard
Ocelot
Name five famous rock stars who died of non-substance abuse-related (not directly related, at least) causes.
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ritchie Valens
Buddy Holly
Hank Ballard
Name five notable classical musicians living today.
Yo-Yo Ma
Jennifer Koh
Lang Lang
Angelin Chang
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Name five politicians who died of natural causes in the last thirty years.
Ronald Reagan
Pierre Trudeau
Francois Mitterrand
Harold Wilson
P.W. Botha
Name five nicknames that might sort of fit you, but that you would rather not have.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way, influenced the music industry through the genre of rock music. The museum is part of the city's redeveloped North Coast Harbor.
I think you posted in the wrong thread, einfopedia.