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Can you name the Alphanumeric Things? Enter a thing in the box below Correctly named things will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 6 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 3675 TV Shows (U.S.) 2834 Broadway Opening Lines 2774 You Do Know Jack 1240 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1147 Same Last Name 1003 And more...
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Description	Thing
Lubricant with a thousand uses
A band, a hairstyle or a Boeing aircraft
Vegetable juice made by Campbell's
Steak sauce made by Kraft
British Security Service
Soviet sub about which a 2002 movie was made
MTV competitor
Irish rock band led by Bono
Second highest mountain on Earth
Popular digital audio recording format
First serial number of the Starship Enterprise
Company that makes Post-It notes
Standard paper size...except in the U.S. and Canada

Description	Thing
Another term for police dogs
Computer bug associated with the turn of a century
Legless droid in all 6 Star Wars movies
8 bit Unicode character encoding format
Boat commanded by JFK in WWII
Movie type that attempts to mimic the sense of depth
Band known for the hit 'Red, Red Wine'
Assault rifle developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov
MPAA rating for 'Parents Strongly Cautioned'
Common plastic explosive
George Lucas's movie of 1971
U.S. tax deferred retirement account
Panasonic game console of 1993

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	MovieDynamic:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	14 points
	I've never heard a B-52 be associated with hair before. Huh.

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	melissa:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	9 points
	GR8 random general knowledge quiz! Just one minor suggestion: you may want to accept 403(b) as well as 401(k) for the retirement account (former is for nonprofits & educational institutions; latter is for corporations, but they both fit the definition). TTYL8R...

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	jbear31:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 08:50 GMT	10 points
	U-571 was also a submarine movie

	refwen:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	0 points
	U-571 is about a Nazi sub and MI5 is wrong its MI6

	jawa88:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 08:54 GMT	2 points
	Whoever knows the enterprise's serial number is some kind of fantastic =)

	ZeppoMarxist:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	3 points
	Jawa88 - It's written on the saucer!

	Thalia:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:04 GMT	4 points
	Agreeing with Robert over the confusion with MI5... but I guess technically MI5 is Secret Service and MI6 is Secret Intelligence Service, so it's correct but I was befuddled

	Gordo:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	8 points
	MI6 is the pop culture name for the SIS, MI5 is the Security Service.

	refwen:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:09 GMT	-2 points
	@Shoban: yes MI5 is the SECURITY service, the question says SECRET service

	bondjamesbond:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:13 GMT	1 point
	Yeah...I'm a little confused about the "British Secret Service" question. I mean from what I remember (I'm a big James Bond fan so I like this stuff) MI5 is more of an FBI type organization working internally whereas MI6, like the CIA, works with international intelligence. Maybe it's just me but when I hear "secret service" I think more CIA than FBI (and therefore MI6 rather than MI5).

	conio:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:17 GMT	6 points
	@JD: That is obviously a lie. Everyone knows your digestive system would separate the numbers from letters, then sort them alphabetically. You're not fooling anyone pal.

	Robert Schumacher:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT	11 points
	Minor quibble...R2-D2 had legs. And chronologically (in the Star Trek overall storyline) the Enterprise of Star Trek:Enterprise was set earlier, thus was the first "starship Enterprise"...and was NX-01. Yes, Trek geek... :) Great quiz...

	k3lit0:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:22 GMT	7 points
	Awesome! Was expecting n64 though. :) I like these recent quizzes, very eclectic!

	Zycoolaman:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:22 GMT	-2 points
	What about the N64?

	tucktan:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 09:24 GMT	26 points
	VH1 and MTV are both owned by Viacomm, kinda hard to be competitors when they are the same company

	MetaphysicalMan:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 10:09 GMT	10 points
	Not to mention that MTV doesn't really play videos anymore. Well now that I think about it, I'm not sure VH1 does any more either. How far they have fallen..

	sactoshc:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 10:32 GMT	-3 points
	21 out of 26...that was a good one for me...apparently I like a good alphanumeric...

	Chumley:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 10:46 GMT	9 points
	I have to second R2-D2 having legs.

	bradwell:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 11:07 GMT	24 points
	Kept trying KY Jelly for the first one before I understood the finer details of the quiz

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	GaidinBDJ:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 11:28 GMT	1 point
	Technically the registry number of the first Starship Enterprise was NX-01, the first Federation Starship Enterprise was NCC-1701.

	Joe_Ball:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 11:35 GMT	8 points
	@Nathan: As you would know if you had read the comments before your own, or, I don't know, lived somewhere other than beneath a rock, you would know - sigh - that MI6 are not fictional. For that matter, MI6 and MI5 (MI standing for 'military intelligence') are both branches of our secret service (with lower case 's'). MI5 is domestic while MI6 deals with international matters.

	chambers:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 13:05 GMT	3 points
	there are some weird ones in there...

	lulubelles:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 13:12 GMT	3 points
	A nice mix of us and uk things, and some really weird stuff I would never have got in an hour

	MrEnglishman:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 14:27 GMT	12 points
	K-9 is, of course, Doctor Who's faithful friend.

	RobH:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 14:56 GMT	8 points
	I think the fact that only 30% of people got A4 as the paper size shows that at least 70% of users of this site are from the US or Canada. Interesting.

	Lil:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 15:22 GMT	2 points
	i'm from the US but i work with graphics programs, so while i don't use those paper sizes, i see them all the time in menus :) i just tried 4 + a number til i got the right one

	tinman:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 16:09 GMT	8 points
	only 5.6% knew the enterprise's call numbers? I AM a geek (sigh)

	ShepherdBook:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	2 points
	R2D2 had no legs? This is news to me.

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	BelowZero:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	5 points
	Im probably one of the thousand people that owned a 3DO and I still friggin missed it!

	cls121389:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 17:51 GMT	1 point
	It doesn't really show that 70 percent are from the US. Lots of times I've seen it when selecting printing options from computer programs. Often right below Letter (8.5x11), the next option will be A4, with its size in mm.

	Dummo:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	0 points
	I got M15 only because that's a "MPAA rating for 'Parents Strongly Cautioned'" where I'm from.

	RobH:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	3 points
	@Carlton, that's why I said at least 70%.

	Tessa:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 19:36 GMT	-1 points
	Really hard!

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	davebesag:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	1 point
	@Tinman - Probably a few like me remembered the NCC part but not the number (although I recognised it afterwards)!

	zalagreensbury:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	3 points
	I always wondered what a 401 K was, I know it's for retirement I just didn't know what impact it was having on the economy. I'm 19, so don't think of me of stupid, just if you can explain in terms I can understand cause no one can seem to do that for me lol.