# Initials Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/initials-game/610260>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 22, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/initials-game/610260 "2012-01-22T00:34:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/initials-game/610260/1 "2012-01-22T00:34:17Z")

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You take the alphabet, and then a random sentence next to it, and then you have exactly 10 minutes to come up with the most names that match the initials. The names have to be “famous” names, meaning at least 50% of the people playing the game would know the name of that famous person without having to Google the name. For example, if you saw the initials DH you could write Deborah Harry or David Hasselhoff or Don Ho (or all three of those names) but probably not Donna Hicken nor Danial Hakimi, etc.

For this version, I picked the random sentence from above: “its taking longer than we thought”.

So, no cheating! Don’t look below to see what others have posted, no fair Googling initials, just list names off the top of your head!

Ready? Cut and paste the initials below into the reply, set your timer and you have ten minutes to come up with as many _famous_ names as you can for each set of initials.

AI  
BT  
CS  
DT  
EA  
FK  
GI  
HN  
IG  
JL  
KO  
LN  
MG  
NE  
OR  
PT  
QH  
RA  
SN  
TW  
UE  
VT  
WH  
XO  
YU  
ZG

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/initials-game/610260/2 "2012-01-22T00:43:48Z")

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I will try my own:

AI  
BT Bonnie Tyler  
CS Charlie Sheen  
DT Dave Thomas (Wendy’s), Donald Trump  
EA Ethan Allen  
FK  
GI  
HN Harry Nilson  
IG Ira Gershwin  
JL Jerry Lewis  
KO  
LN Liam Nielsen  
MG Martha Graham  
NE Nora Ephram  
OR  
PT  
QH  
RA  
SN Stevie Nicks  
TW Thomas Wolfe  
UE  
VT  
WH William Holden  
XO  
YU  
ZG ZsaZsa Gabor

Damn - those ten minutes went fast. Didn’t do as well as I had hoped!