# List Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 8, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503 "2004-01-08T20:47:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/41 "2004-01-09T18:56:48Z")

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Pole  
Fat  
Black  
Top  
Tom

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**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/42 "2004-01-09T19:00:29Z")

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Ender Characters?

Pennsylviana  
West Virginia  
Maryland  
Tennessee  
Nevada  
California

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**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/43 "2004-01-09T19:03:50Z")

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To **Bippy’s** last list: Cats

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/44 "2004-01-09T19:16:20Z")

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U.S. States, duh! 😉  
(I guess there is something more, …)

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/45 "2004-01-09T19:48:32Z")

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to **bippy** (krummhorn gedackt etc.): close; they’re common organ stops

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**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/46 "2004-01-09T19:59:29Z")

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Bean  
Limpet  
Tibbs  
Chips  
Roarke  
Mouth

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/47 "2004-01-09T20:18:42Z")

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**Mr.**  
Palatium  
Capitolium  
Aventinium  
Esquilinium  
Viminal  
Caelean  
Quirinial

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/48 "2004-01-09T21:16:18Z")

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The Seven Hills of Rome

Jim Henson  
Paul McCartney  
George Bush  
Bill Clinton  
M.C. Escher  
Leonardo da Vinci  
Sandy Koufax  
Larry Bird  
Lewis Carroll  
Mark Twain  
Queen Victoria  
Uri Geller  
John Dillinger

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/49 "2004-01-09T21:31:24Z")

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**Famous left-handers**

Balakirev  
Cui  
Borodin  
Rimsky-Korsakov  
Mussorgsky

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**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/50 "2004-01-09T21:38:45Z")

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Russian Composers

Vincent Persichetti  
Leo Ornstein  
Ralph Shapey  
Melinda Wagner  
Samuel Barber

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/51 "2004-01-09T21:48:27Z")

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[Nitpicky]More specifically, **Meros** , they form a group known as the “Mighty Five” or the “Kutchka”. But yes, they are Russian composers.[/Nitpicky]

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**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/52 "2004-01-09T21:56:06Z")

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Laverne and Shirley  
The Jeffersons  
Three’s a Crowd  
Daria  
Lou Grant

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**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/53 "2004-01-09T22:22:27Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Kizarvexius \*  
> \*\*[Nitpicky]More specifically, **Meros** , they form a group known as the “Mighty Five” or the “Kutchka”. But yes, they are Russian composers.[/Nitpicky] \*\*

Quite the valuable factoid, and certainly one I did not know. Thank you for the enlightenment 🙂

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**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/54 "2004-01-09T22:26:09Z")

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Yeah **Bippy** , there was more.

The names of US Battleships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor and were refloated/repaired to see service during the war.

American composers?

Fairey Delta  
Tiger Shark  
Valkyrie  
Mixmaster  
Cheyenne

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/55 "2004-01-10T01:31:39Z")

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**Chastain** ’s list – good one! – all spin-off TV shows.

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**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/56 "2004-01-10T05:51:43Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by xayoz306 \*  
> \*\*I can’t get any off the previous list, but I have one of my own:
> 
> Moose Jaw  
> Esqualmuit (sp?)  
> Alert  
> Cold Lake  
> London  
> Edmonton  
> Shilo \*\*

No one was able to come up with any of these, but the answer is they are all Canadian Armed Forces bases.

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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/57 "2004-01-10T05:54:24Z")

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Oops… my response was meant to be for **Meros** ’ list of Macs. I should really invest in a faster computer sometime…

That said, who wants to guess at my list? I’ll even repost it for ya:

Jimmy  
Maggie  
Margie  
Mary Anne  
Mary Catherine  
I really have no idea about **Da Toad** ’s list… maybe household appliance brand names?

F\_X

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/58 "2004-01-10T05:57:53Z")

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**Sternvogel** , you were right about the redheads!

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**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/59 "2004-01-10T11:27:42Z")

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\*\* Da Toad \*\*, how about military aircrafts? and how about maybe very fast ones (I don’t know them all, so it’s a guess).

My list:

Frogs  
Snails  
Goose liver  
Pigs feet  
Cow Tripes  
Maggots-plagued and Grape-leaves-wrapped goat cheese

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-game/223503/60 "2004-01-10T11:37:03Z")

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_French_ delicacies

Baroness Rothschild  
Lady Hillingdon  
Colonel Oswald Fitzgerald  
President Wilson  
Commandant L. Bartre

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