Name 5.

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.