# Game: Name Five **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/121 "2011-01-18T20:05:43Z")
Saint Cad: > [@](#): > > Does the Potomac go THROUGH Washington DC or merely borders it? It certainly used to, before the Virginia portion seceded. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/122 "2011-01-18T22:24:48Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Saint Cad: > > It certainly used to, before the Virginia portion seceded. But the verb is in present tense, not past. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/123 "2011-01-18T22:34:49Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > …It certainly used to, before the Virginia portion seceded. It didn’t secede, it was retroceded with the consent of all the parties. But I will abide by the OP’s ruling. Just in case, if someone else wants to mention a world capital with a river, knock yourself out. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/124 "2011-01-18T22:55:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It didn’t secede, it was retroceded with the consent of all the parties. > > But I will abide by the OP’s ruling. Just in case, if someone else wants to mention a world capital with a river, knock yourself out. The 5 rivers question was my idea, and I was happy with Potomac. But in case anybody wants to move on… Pssst… there’s this river that rhymes with ‘stiffy" that flows through a city that rhymes with "troublin’." ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/125 "2011-01-18T23:49:03Z")
> [@](#): > > It didn’t secede, it was retroceded with the consent of all the parties. I thought it seceded with Virginia at the onset of the civil war and simply wasn’t demanded back after the union was restored (or re-acknowledged). ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/126 "2011-01-19T01:46:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It didn’t secede, it was retroceded with the consent of all the parties. > > But I will abide by the OP’s ruling. Just in case, if someone else wants to mention a world capital with a river, knock yourself out. astorian’s ruling is good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/127 "2011-01-19T02:27:19Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > I thought it seceded with Virginia at the onset of the civil war and simply wasn’t demanded back after the union was restored (or re-acknowledged). Nope, it happened in 1847, more than a decade before the Civil War began: [District of Columbia retrocession - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocession_%28District_of_Columbia%29) ---
**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 19, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/128 "2011-01-19T03:25:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Name five spaceships from Iain M. Banks’ Culture series Bora Horza Gobuchul Of Course I Still Love You Congenital Optimist I Blame My Mother I Blame Your Mother No, I don’t remember which are GCUs, ROUs etc… Hope that’s good enough. Name five US Marines ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/129 "2011-01-19T04:54:57Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Name five US Marines John Glenn Stephen Decatur Smedley Butler Ted Williams Pappy Boyington Name 5 people for whom major airports have been named. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/130 "2011-01-19T05:00:47Z")
John Kennedy Ronald Reagan Fiorello LaGuadardia Charles DeGaulle O’Hare 5 Lead actors who played a real person ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/131 "2011-01-19T05:02:33Z")
Ronald Reagan George Bush Edward O’Hare Ted Stevens (I didn’t think Wiley Post - Will Rogers Airport would be considered major) William Mines Name 5 cities that used to be, but are no longer, national capitals. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/132 "2011-01-19T05:09:11Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > John Kennedy > Ronald Reagan > Fiorello LaGuadardia > Charles DeGaulle > O’Hare > > 5 Lead actors who played a real person How about two real people Leonardo Di Caprio (Hughes & Abergnale) Charles Laughton (Henry VIII & Bligh) Anthony Hopkins (Treves & Bligh) Paul Muni (Zola & Pasteur) Geoffrey Rush (de Sade & that Shiney McShine guy) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/133 "2011-01-19T05:11:59Z")
Kingston, Canada Philadelphia, United States Austin, Texas Bonn, West Germany Rio de Janiero, Brazil Name five Americans who have won the Nobel Peace Prize but not while they were President. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/134 "2011-01-19T05:24:11Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > [Five U.S. Marines] > > John Glenn > Stephen Decatur > Smedley Butler > Ted Williams > Pappy Boyington Decatur was a U.S. Navy officer, not a Marine. So I’ll add one: former NYC Mayor David Dinkins. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/135 "2011-01-19T15:11:11Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Name five Americans who have won the Nobel Peace Prize but not while they were President. Martin Luther King Jr. Al Gore Jane Addams Ralph Bunche George Marshall Name 5 historical figures mentioned in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/136 "2011-01-19T15:13:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Decatur was a U.S. Navy officer, not a Marine. So I’ll add one: former NYC Mayor David Dinkins. Yeah, I suppose… but since Decatur is regarded as the first hero of the US Marines (when Marines sing about “the shores of Tripoli,” they’re paying tribute to Decatur’s attacks on the Barbary pirates),I thought he rated a mention. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/137 "2011-01-19T15:17:48Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Name 5 historical figures mentioned in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Harry Truman Doris Day Johnnie Ray Walter Winchell Joe DiMaggio Name five Stephen King characters with supernatural abilities ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/138 "2011-01-19T15:22:16Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Name five Stephen King characters with supernatural abilities Randall Flagg Carrie The shopowner in Needful Things The sorcerer in Eyes of the Dragon The kid in The Shining (leaving it open to the judges if that counts as “naming”.) 5 historical figures mentioned in “The End of the World as We Know It” ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/139 "2011-01-23T16:33:17Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > 5 historical figures mentioned in “The End of the World as We Know It” There are only four; [I looked it up](http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/r.e.m./it's_the_end_of_the_world_as_we_know_it_(and_i_feel_fine)/). What should we do now? ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972/140 "2011-01-23T18:24:45Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > There are only four; [I looked it up](http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/r.e.m./it's_the_end_of_the_world_as_we_know_it_(and_i_feel_fine)/). What should we do now? Keep playing! Name 5 Black US Senators. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-name-five/566972.md?page=8)