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Sure, bad blood and a shared border may be all two teams need to spark a rivalry, but a really bizarre trophy doesn’t hurt, either. Let’s find out how well you know which teams are fighting for giant axes and phones this fall.
Take the Quiz: College Football Trophies

Each photo in this quiz contains two famous actors from one movie. You don’t have to ID the actors, or the characters they played, but you do have to name the movie.
Once you think you’ve got it, type the full name of the movie into the blank box under the photo. And, yes, we know a lot of these look pretty funny, lo-tech, and all that. It’s part of the fun of it! I hope you get as many laughs out of it as I did making it. Truly the most giggles I’ve had putting together one of these quizzes!
Take the Quiz: Movie Actor Mashup Time!


When Lafayette Ronald Hubbard founded Scientology in 1952, he had no idea there would one day be something called Techno music (best done in Germany, of course) let alone a quiz devoted to comparing and contrasting them. Turns out, the two have a lot in common. See if you can tell which word belongs to which camp.

You remember the classic games, but how well do you remember their great tunes? Turn up those speakers and take a nostalgic stroll down Theme Song Lane by naming these 10 classic melodies.
Take the Quiz: Video Game Theme Songs

The Animaniacs was always more than just a great cartoon. It provided some useful learning tools—Wakko singing the 50 states and their capitals certainly helped me on a few geography tests. How well do you remember the Animaniacs’ great songs?
Take the Quiz: Animaniacs’ Greatest Hits

Earlier this year, you proved you know the Clue characters as surely as if Mrs. White was your kindly old granny and Colonel Mustard was your eccentric uncle. But are you as sharp on the rooms Mr. Boddy may have been killed in? As with the characters quiz, we’re talking originals—no rooms from the revamped versions have been included. Good luck!
Take the Quiz: Name the 9 Clue Rooms

Earlier this month, we tested your knowledge of the world’s strangest flags. Now let’s see how you do with some of the striped ones.
Take the Quiz: Flags of the World (The Striped Ones)

Here’s a quiz that would have been more appropriate on November 5th (the day Doc Brown invented time travel). The Back to the Future trilogy made a generation of kids crave hoverboards, roof-hinged car doors, and Huey Lewis cassette tapes. Turn the time circuits on and see how well you remember Hill Valley, circa 1985. (And 1955. And 2015. And 1885.) Perhaps you’ll pick up a few fun facts about the franchise along the way.
Take the Quiz: Back to the Future

Due to our readers’ violent demands (and by violent demands, we mean polite emails)—and for those of you who weren’t allowed to read Judy Blume—we’ve put together the ultimate Beverly Cleary quiz. How much do you remember about Ramona and the kids from Klickitat Street?
Take the Quiz: Beverly Cleary

Everyone knows the asterisk, the pound sign and the “at” symbol, but what about their lesser-known cousins? See how well you fare when you try to match up the obscure and semi-obscure punctuation marks with their names.
Take the Quiz: “$#@!”