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In today’s lunchtime quiz, you’re given a made-up name, and you try to rearrange one word in that name to match the other word in that name. For example, if the clue name was LLOYD HELLO, you can rearrange the letters in LLOYD to come up with DOLLY – as in HELLO, DOLLY. Get it?
Try the quiz and see how well you do. Then return here and let us (and everyone else) know. Good luck!
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that was a fun one!
posted by Ben on 4-23-2008 at 10:48 am
Ah right, I see.
The quiz should have the proviso that it is US american and as such will name check products not seen out side the USA.
I got 90% on the quiz , only marred by not knowing that a “renault alliance” was a car.
A NEUTRAL ALLIANCE seemed like a more feasible option.
Internet does not stop when you run out of ZIP CODE
posted by Pol x on 4-23-2008 at 10:55 am
80%… I, too, thought it was neutral alliance. Missed Rolls Royce too, though… apparently cars aren’t my thing.
posted by Roger on 4-23-2008 at 11:00 am
100%!
It got easier after the first two. Then I got my groove. That one would have maybe been better as a timed quiz. For me, it would have been 100% either way…it was just a matter of how long it took to figure it out.
posted by bre on 4-23-2008 at 11:02 am
I missed both french ones. Go figure.
posted by BassMan on 4-23-2008 at 11:11 am
This is a word puzzle, not a quiz! Booo!
posted by burgeon on 4-23-2008 at 11:22 am
I’d rather not say what I scored. It was BAD.
However, I did have fun with it! :)
posted by Bethany on 4-23-2008 at 11:39 am
6/10
But I should get bonus creativity points for “Light Sorbet” instead of “Strobe Light” ;) Clearly I spend more time dieting than raving. ;)
posted by Ashley on 4-23-2008 at 11:50 am
9 for 10 – I tripped on the Alliance, thinking natural
posted by cybergoober on 4-23-2008 at 11:56 am
What’s a lauro achille?
posted by Ira on 4-23-2008 at 12:05 pm
I don’t see why neutral alliance is not also correct.
posted by Nathan on 4-23-2008 at 12:13 pm
Oh okay, a French cruise ship hijacked by the PLO when I was two and a half. Don’t I feel silly.
posted by Ira on 4-23-2008 at 12:15 pm
I don’t think that a Renault Alliance is really strictly American, is it? I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a Renault here, and I’ve lived here all my life… Maybe they are common on the coasts?
posted by kate on 4-23-2008 at 12:22 pm
i also guessed light sorbet instead of strobe light! and neutral alliance should also be acceptable i think. i have also never heard of lauro achille. i didn’t even guess anything for that one.
posted by lindsay m on 4-23-2008 at 12:24 pm
7 out of 10, but I mispelled Geiger…. the whole ei-ie thing gets me constantly!
posted by Jeffrey on 4-23-2008 at 12:47 pm
Another vote for 90% and missing the renault question.
posted by KJ on 4-23-2008 at 12:54 pm
Okay, okay, I’ve made “neutral alliance” count.
I’m not certain why one would align with a neutral party, but that’s neither here nor there.
posted by Sandy on 4-23-2008 at 12:59 pm
wow i can’t believe how biased this quiz is to america…
Renault – English car company
Rolls Royce – English car company
Achille Lauro – Palestinian terrorists attacked this Italian cruse ship
Geiger Counter – Invented by a German
Lear Jet – Manufactured in Canada
posted by Ben on 4-23-2008 at 1:53 pm
80%. Only missed 7 and 9, neither of which I recognized at all. Turns out I was more concerned with Sesame Street & Mr. Rogers when Renault Alliance and Achille Lauro were in the news.
posted by Mel on 4-23-2008 at 3:13 pm
I think the issue is that there aren’t many two-word phrases that can anagram well, and the ones that can happen to feature consonant-vowel justaposition in ways that aren’t common to the English language and specifically to American words.
posted by Ira on 4-23-2008 at 3:53 pm
LOL @ Ben, I was thinking the same thing.
posted by Johnny Cat on 4-23-2008 at 4:21 pm
Corrections for Ben
Renault is a French car company
Rolls Royce is now a German car company (owned by BMW)
And Leon Klinghoffer – the unfortunate wheelchair bound man murdered on the Achille Lauro – was American.
posted by Nick T on 4-24-2008 at 6:31 am
Ahh, thanks Nick. I blew it on Renault, and didn’t know about the Rolls being a BMW now. 2/5 aint bad!
posted by Ben on 4-24-2008 at 9:10 am
Sandy
“I’m not certain why one would align with a neutral party”
I think it’s called and non aggression pact.
Both parties alliance hinges on not getting into any fights with each other.
Ben
Renault –
Is a FRENCH car company.
But that is neither here nor there, as the point was the actual car the renault alliance, which was only EVER sold in the USA.
Rolls Royce –
Yes an English company, but it is a BRand known the world over.
For 102 years.
Is a century enough?
Achille Lauro –
So world events don’t count now?
Oh right, they only count if they happen to Americans.
And recently.
No Entebe? Munich 1972?
So basically anything that wasn’t September the 11th doesn’t count.
Geiger Counter – Invented by a German
Good god, so was the airship the diesel engine the internal combustion engine, the car, sod it CALCULUS was invented by a german (ok Newton too).
But you couldn’t be expected to know about these things could you?
I mean
furriners did em.
Blimey
only teasing.
posted by Pol x on 4-24-2008 at 10:17 am
Wow you are in a ranting mood today. I’m quite sure you succeeded in proving my lone point that you were off base in deeming this quiz American biased. Shoe-horning in obscure September 11 and calculus references isn’t going to change anybody’s mind. Perhaps you’d like to comment over on the running thread of US Presidents and complain about how the political figures of Ghana haven’t been given their equal due.
posted by Ben on 4-24-2008 at 11:09 am