No prizes here. Inspired by the “identify this” trivia thread… how many of these words/phrases/people do you recognize?
a perfect fifth
a pride
A.S.P.C.A.
Absolut
ACLU
Adonai
AIDS
albeit
Alexander Schneider
Allen Greenspan
Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Allen Turing
Alvin Ailey
American Gothic
ampere
Amway
angel dust
annuit cìptis
apartheid
apteryx
AT&SF
Austerlitz
autobahn
Avia
Axel Foley
Baby M
baud
Bausch & Lomb
BBC
Beany & Cecil
bebop
Ben & Jerry
Bernhard Hugo Goetz
big bang theory
bisque
Bix Beiderbecke
Bloomingdale’s
Bob Denver
Bob Marley
bogey
Bols
Brat Pack
brie
Brown vs. Board of Education
Buddy Holly
Bugs Bunny
Busby Berkely
Buzz Aldrin
camcorder
Captain Mark Phillips
caveat emptor
centrifugal force
Chambord
Chanukkah
Charles Dickens
Childe Harold
CHiPs
chord
Clive Barker
Clyfford Still
coracle
Corazon Aquino
Cornwallis
Corvette
couch potato
CPR
Creme brulee
Cream
croissant
CRT
De Kuyper
Dec. 7, 1941
difference between a minor third and a major third
Dolph Lundgren
Dom Perignom
Donald Trump
Donna Rice
Donner party
Dred Scott decision
duvet
Ed Koch
Ed White
Eddie Haskell
Edict of Nantes
Edvard Munch
Ellis Island
emeritus
empanada
Empress of the Blues
en
Epcot Center
ERA
Eric Stanley Gardner
Erik Satie
Fawn Hall
fellatio
femur
feta
Fire Island
Francis Scott Key
I don’t know what the following are:
Adonai
Alexander Schneider
annuit cìptis
apteryx
AT&SF
Avia
Beany & Cecil
Bix Beiderbecke
Bols
A couple sound familiar but I can’t place them.
Cliffy
July 29, 2005, 9:21pm
4
If 93. is supposed to be Erle Stanley Gardner, 85. Otherwise, 84.
–Cliffy
75, off the top of my head. That’s not counting the ones that I’ve heard of, but wouldn’t be able to explain without some research. Most are familiar.
86%
missbunny:
apteryx
As every B.C. reader knows, it’s a wingless bird with hairy feathers.
Zebra
July 29, 2005, 9:30pm
7
76
Though some of my familiarity was limited to things like
That’s some old English dude.
Do you mean the car or the ship class?
Well if it’s just “the word is not completely alien to you,” then I’d have to remove six from my list of “don’t knows” - they sound familiar but I couldn’t write a paragraph of description on what they are. Otherwise you guys are making me feel embarrassingly uninformed.
What’s B.C.? Is that the comic strip? (Add that to my ??? list.)
bouv
July 29, 2005, 9:36pm
9
I know about 75 of them, give or take a few.
That’s the one. The apteryx would make an occasional appearance, always introducing himself with an explaination of what an apteryx was.
87, believe it or not, though a few were more like educated guesses than certain knowledge. Scale it back to 80 or so, if certainty is the criteria.
78, but I had to double check on annuit cìptis. I seem to remember it being spelled annuit coptis.
92 if it’s Erle. otherwise 91.
I feel guilty that I saw “American Gothic” and thought “TV show” first, then had my :smack: moment and went “Oh, and that painting.”
Frank
July 29, 2005, 10:52pm
15
It’s easier to leave the ones I don’t recognize:
a perfect fifth
Alexander Schneider
Allen Stewart Konigsberg
annuit cìptis
AT&SF
Beany & Cecil
Clyfford Still
difference between a minor third and a major third
empanada
Erik Satie
Lsura
July 29, 2005, 11:14pm
16
The ones I don’t recognize:
a perfect fifth
Alexander Schneider
Allen Turing
Alvin Ailey
annuit cìptis
apteryx
Beany & Cecil
Bix Beiderbecke
Busby Berkely
Captain Mark Phillips
Chambord
Childe Harold
Clyfford Still
coracle
De Kuyper
difference between a minor third and a major third
Ed White
Edict of Nantes
Erik Satie
Fawn Hall
So I don’t recognize 20 out of 100
Honestly, - my score is 87. You know what that means?
And if we are going to correct Bricker’s list, I believe the proper spelling isAnnuit Cœptis
Bricker:
Allen Greenspan
Allen Turing
I have no clue who these people are.
Now, Alan Greenspan and Alan Turing I’m familiar with…
With the aforementioned corrections, I think I could identify all but 18 (i.e. 82) of them (and at least a couple of those rang bells).