Polls only: No discussion

[markn_1]

Your best friend has disappeared, and the police are asking you for a physical description to help locate them. Which of these characteristics would you be able to describe?

• Hair color
• Eye color
• Height (within 1 inch / 2 cm)
• Weight (within 10 pounds / 5 kg)
• Age (within 2 years)
• I would not be able to describe any of these characteristics

[John_DiFool]

Which of these sports figures do you (pretty much instantly) recognize?

• Burt Hooton
• Jake Scott
• George McGinnis
• Essa Tikkanen
• Bruce Crampton
• Manuel Orantes
• Clay Regazzoni
• Ingemar Stenmark
• Franz Beckenbauer
• Harry Gant
• Danny Ongais

[De_La_Rue]

• Hard-shell tacos
• Soft-shell tacos

• Hard science fiction
• Soft science fiction

• Hard drinks
• Soft drinks

• Hardball
• Softball

[WildaBeast]

Surely some of the names in some of the “names you recognize” polls are just made up, right?

• I agree, and don’t call me Shirley.
• No, they’re all real. Or real fictional characters.

[John_DiFool]

[REDO] Which of these sports figures do you (pretty much instantly) recognize?

• Burt Hooton
• Jake Scott
• George McGinnis
• Essa Tikkanen
• Bruce Crampton
• Manuel Orantes
• Clay Regazzoni
• Ingemar Stenmark
• Franz Beckenbauer
• Harry Gant
• Danny Ongais
• None of the above

[WildaBeast]

If you decorate for Christmas or some other December holiday, which of these comes closest to how much you decorate?

• I do celebrate a holiday in December but I don’t decorate at all
• I put up a tree, or a menorah, or whatever the primary symbol of my holiday is, but nothing else
• I put up a tree/menorah/etc and/or some other decorations inside, and some small decorations outside, such as a wreath on the door.
• I put up some outdoor lights, but nothing too elaborate.
• I go all out – elaborate light displays, a giant inflatable Santa and his reindeer, all that jazz
• I don’t celebrate any holiday in December, but I like voting.

[John_DiFool]

What categories (if any) would you like to see in the next Recognition polls(s)?

• Politicians
• Journalists
• Old timer athletes
• Athletes, more recent ones please
• Actors
• Fictional characters
• Authors
• Movie directors
• Scientists
• Artists (painters/sculptors)
• Musicians
• A category I didn’t list (disclose in the comments thread)
• NO MORE for me thanks, I’m driving

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

Which of these characters from literature do you (pretty much instantly) recognize?
(answers spoilerized at the bottom)

• Atticus Finch
• Dean Moriarty
• Elizabeth Bennet
• Gregor Samsa
• Holden Caulfield
• Ignatius Reilly
• Lennie Small
• Leopold Bloom
• Willy Loman
• Yossarian
• Not a danged one of them

Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dean Moriarty - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gregor Samsa - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Ignatius Reilly - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Lennie Small - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Leopold Bloom - Ulysses by James Joyce
Willy Loman - Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Yossarian - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

[WildaBeast]

My Christmas Tree is:

• A real tree
• Artificial
• I don’t put up a Christmas Tree but I like voting.

[John_DiFool]

How many of these scientists (A-Z) do you recognize, if any?

• Louis Agassiz
• Henri Becquerel
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Paul Dirac
• Arthur Eddington
• Leon Foucault
• Galen
• Hypatia
• Keisuke Ito
• Edward Jenner
• Alfred Kinsey
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Lynn Margulis
• John von Neumann
• Georg Ohm
• Jean Piaget
• Harriet Quimby
• Wilhelm Röntgen
• Leo Szilard
• Clyde Tombaugh
• Harold Urey
• Alessandro Volta
• Alfred Wegener
• [No X that I could find, sorry]
• Chen-Ning Yang
• Ahmed Zewail
• NONE of the above

[Loach]

You bought a new loaf of bread from the grocery store. Not a fresh baked loaf from the bakery, it a commercially mass produced sliced loaf like Wonderbread or Arnold’s. White, wheat, whatever doesn’t matter. What do you do with the heel? I don’t care what you call it. The heel, the crust, the end it doesn’t matter. There are two of them at the beginning and end of the loaf. What do you do with it?

• I eat or otherwise use the end when I open the package and also use the other end when I get to it.
• I throw out those two pieces without using them
• I sometimes throw it out, sometimes I use it
• I don’t throw it out right away. I convince myself I’ll probably use it then I throw out both pieces when I get to the end of the loaf
• I never eat bread but I want to screw up the percentages
• I only eat artisan bread made by Peruvian monks who have taken a vow of silence but I just have to vote in every poll.

[Bashorian]

If I had to live in the TV version of the Swamp I would prefer to live with:

• Hawkeye
• Trapper
• Frank
• Spearchucker
• B.J.
• Charles
• Other

[Velocity]

If paid blood donations were the accepted norm, how much would it take, per donation, to persuade you to give blood once every 2 months?

• More than $200 per donation
• $150-200
• $100-150
• $50-100
• Less than $50 would do
• I don’t need any money, I already am a regular blood donor

[Wheelz]

“Ghosting,” in case you’re not familiar with the term, refers to a situation where, rather than a proper breakup, one party in a romantic (or potentially romantic) relationship simply cuts off all contact with the other.

• I have ghosted and been ghosted
• I have ghosted but have never been ghosted
• I have been ghosted by have never ghosted
• I have neither ghosted nor been ghosted
• Other, because someone always has to pick other

[elfkin477]

Before this sort of poll gets run out of the metaphorical town by villagers with pitchforks and torches, How many of these names do you recognize?

• Connor Temple
• Abby Maitland
• Kenzi Malikov
• Dyson Thornwood
• Simon Holmes
• Claudia Donovan
• Artie Nielsen
• Duke Crocker
• Nathan Wuornos
• Astrid Farnsworth
• Nina Sharp
• Rosalee Calvert
• Adalind Schade
• John Byers
• Melvin Fohike
• Winifred Burkle
• Charles Gunn
• Fiona Phillips
• Annie Thelen
• Georgia Fan
• Bess Marvin
• John Kanin
• Sophia Donner
• Bonnie Bennett
• Tyler Lockwood
• Calvin Theodore
• Cynthia McEachin
• Nicole Haught
• Randy Nedley
• Magnus Bane
• Isabelle Lightwood
• Eliot Waugh
• Margo Hanson

[DCnDC]

You’re walking in the park. A dog appears in your path a little ways up, minding its own business.

How large a dog makes you stop in your tracks?

• Any size dog.
• Chihuahua
• Yorkshire terrier
• Dachshund
• Jack Russell terrier
• Beagle
• Retriever
• Doberman Pinscher
• Rottweiler
• Great Dane
• Mastiff
• I fear no dog
• It depends on more factors than just the size of the dog

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

Which describes you best?

• Introvert
• Somewhat introverted
• Middle-of-the-road-vert
• Somewhat extraverted
• Extravert
• It varies, can be either on any given day
• Wait, is it extravert or extrovert? Intravert or introvert? And which spelling do you (pretty much instantly) recognize?
• Other / something else / I know that you think that I’m lonely I’m not trying to be your homie

[DCnDC]

If you had to pick only one:

• Loose fried shredded potatoes
• Preformed hash brown patties
• Tater crowns
• Tater tots
• Really depends on the context. Is this is a side or a main? Is there dipping sauce?
• I don’t like any of these forms of fried potatoes

[Velocity]

Kamala Harris abruptly announces that she won’t run for VP in 2024. Biden asks you to be his running mate. Do you?

• yes
• no

Rewind back to February 2017. Trump asks you to be his presidential advisor. Assume that he’ll actually listen and take what you say seriously. Do you?

• yes
• no

[RollOutTheBarrel]

Have you ever been a member of a labor union?

• Yes, currently
• Yes, in the past, but not currently
• No, never
• I don’t know or I can’t remember
• I’m a member of United Other Workers of Other