# Game: Name Five

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 9, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972 "2011-01-09T13:21:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/21 "2011-01-11T21:45:58Z")

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A Fish Called Wanda  
Time Bandits  
Jabberwocky  
Nuns on the Run  
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone  
Excluding the Sun, name 5 stars (of the celestial kind)

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**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/22 "2011-01-11T21:49:54Z")

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Alpha Centauri  
Alpha Proxima  
Betelgeuse  
Barnard’s Star  
Vega

Name five Operas.

Enjoy,  
Steven

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/23 "2011-01-11T22:02:53Z")

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The Barber of Seville  
Boris Godunov  
Carmen  
La Boheme  
The Magic Flute

Name 5 people who have walked on the moon.

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/24 "2011-01-12T02:56:56Z")

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Armstrong  
Aldrin  
Bean  
Shephard  
Schmidt

Name five people who have never been in my kitchen.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/25 "2011-01-12T03:04:07Z")

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me  
Opal  
Barack Obama  
Sarah Palin  
Joe Biden

name 5 colleges that produced a SB losing QB

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/26 "2011-01-12T04:21:49Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> me  
> Opal  
> Barack Obama  
> Sarah Palin  
> Joe Biden
> 
> name 5 colleges that produced a SB losing QB

Northern Iowa

U of Michigan

U of Miami

Stanford

Maryland

Name five albums by the rock band Queen.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/27 "2011-01-12T05:17:41Z")

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Day at the Races  
Night at the Opera  
Innuendo  
A Kind of Magic  
Queen I  
Name five Norse gods

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/28 "2011-01-12T06:11:31Z")

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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Day at the Races  
> Night at the Opera  
> Innuendo  
> A Kind of Magic  
> Queen I  
> Name five Norse gods

Thor  
Odin  
Balder  
Loki  
Frey

Name 5 title characters who die in Shakespeare’s plays.

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/29 "2011-01-12T06:30:46Z")

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> Name 5 title characters who die in Shakespeare’s plays.

Hamlet  
Macbeth  
Julius Caesar  
Romeo  
Juliet  
Give the full name of 5 people who have an SI unit named after them.

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/30 "2011-01-12T07:01:06Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Name 5 battles the CSA won during the Civil War.

1st Bull Run  
2nd Bull Run  
Fredericksburg  
Chancellorsville  
Chicakamauga

SI unit people:

Isaac Newton  
Heinrich Hertz  
Allesandro Volta  
Frederich Ohm  
Henri Bequerel

New one: Name five drummers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including those in as part of a group.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/31 "2011-01-12T12:26:55Z")

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> [@AppallingGael](#):
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> New one: Name five drummers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including those in as part of a group.

John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)  
Keith Moon (The Who)  
Ringo Starr (Some band from Liverpool)  
Lars Ulrich (Metallica)  
Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)

Name 5 counties of Ireland.

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/32 "2011-01-12T12:40:45Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)  
> Keith Moon (The Who)  
> Ringo Starr (Some band from Liverpool)  
> Lars Ulrich (Metallica)  
> Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
> 
> Name 5 counties of Ireland.

Dublin,  
Derry,  
Cork,  
Kerry,  
Donegal

( I could go on! 🙂 )  
Name 5 counties of England.

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**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/33 "2011-01-12T13:31:59Z")

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Cornwall  
Devon  
Somerset  
Dorset  
Hampshire

(I could also go on)  
Other than sight and vision, name 5 senses.

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/34 "2011-01-12T13:44:44Z")

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Common  
Smell  
Hearing  
Taste  
Touch

Name 5 James Cagney movies.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/35 "2011-01-12T13:47:01Z")

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Sight AND vision ? 🙂 I’m assuming you meant hearing.

Touch  
Smell  
Taste  
Nociception (pain)  
Proprioception (spatial sense of where your limbs are)

There are others, too !

EDIT: ninja’d. Go with **Sigmagirl** ’s five, then.

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**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/36 "2011-01-12T13:48:37Z")

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> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#):
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> Other than sight and vision, name 5 senses.

Meant to say “other than sight and hearing”. :smack: Points for creativity, but “common” isn’t a sense. Humans are reckoned to have at least 10 senses, and some animals have more.

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/37 "2011-01-12T15:25:53Z")

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> [@Sigmagirl](#):
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> Common  
> Smell  
> Hearing  
> Taste  
> Touch
> 
> Name 5 James Cagney movies.

Angels With Dirty Faces  
The Bride Came C.O.D.  
White Heat  
The Roaring Twenties  
The Public Enemy  
Name 5 of the Transformers (ie autobots etc)

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/38 "2011-01-12T15:35:49Z")

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Optimus Prime  
Bumblebee  
Megatron  
Soundwave  
Ironhide  
Name five animals that are known for killing human beings.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/39 "2011-01-12T15:52:46Z")

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Animals known for killing humans? Like, by name? Hm…

Murderous Mary, elephant  
Gustave, crocodile

After that, I come up empty on proper names. But if you’re taking just species:

Elephant  
Crocodile  
Lion  
Hippopotamus  
Sydney funnel web spider

Name 5 Marvel superheroes who wear capes.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/40 "2011-01-12T15:56:58Z")

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Thor  
The Vision  
Nomad (temporary identity of Captain America)  
Dr. Strange  
Scarlet Witch  
Name 5 “third party” US Presidential candidates.

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