Can you name the words or terms below with 'Black' in the name?

Clue	Guess
Beginning of the traditional (U.S.) Christmas shopping season
A dark form of sorcery
Anna Sewell's famous horse
To extort money from someone
A disgrace or embarrassment to a family or group
When an individual or business is profitable
A system of buying and selling officially controlled goods illegally.
Wireless handheld device
Popular game in Las Vegas
British heavy metal band that sings 'Iron Man'
To exclude or ostracize someone
Astronomy theoretical celestial object
Someone who works with iron with a forge
Country artist who sang 'Killin' Time'
Canadian whisky brand

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The Black Quiz

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Published: November 28th, 2008
Category: Language
Plays: 329,339

Tags: quiz, term, black, guess, clue

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	Kr!s:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 19:52 GMT	1 point
	12/15. I missed the one about the horse, country singer, and whiskey. I'm not typing answers...sorry! =]

	Tom:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 19:58 GMT	18 points
	I missed the whiskey. That's what I get for being a teetotaler.

	yankeessuck8991:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 20:00 GMT	0 points
	is it really necessary to type in 'black' each time?

	Tim Allen:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 20:30 GMT	8 points
	@Tom: I missed the whiskey for the same reason. 14/15.

	firenzie:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 20:43 GMT	11 points
	I love these kinds of Sporcle games! But I missed the country artist & whiskey. Also, I expected Lewis Black and the Black Eyed Peas to be on here. Maybe even Black Death/Plague, black humor, Black Adder and Black & Decker.

	jwalker27:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 21:27 GMT	9 points
	Completely missed the magic one. I kept typing black arts.

	HollywoodLeo:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 21:27 GMT	5 points
	Missed 3, the same 3 Kris missed. Jack Black should have been an answer

	HollywoodLeo:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 21:28 GMT	7 points
	@yankeessuck, not all the answers start with Black, and others are compound words with "Black" being part of it, so I think it's necessary.

	Bethannie:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 22:13 GMT	2 points
	12/15 I missed the whisky too!and the country singer, and Christmas ones

	Trevor:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 22:19 GMT	20 points
	Shouldn't the first one specify that it's the American Christmas season? Because there's sure as hell no such thing as that anywhere else in the world.

	Nezu_Chiza:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 22:26 GMT	4 points
	13/15. Didn't get the country singer or the whiskey. Nice short quiz though.

	lyttmabatr:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 22:29 GMT	5 points
	I missed the last 2, was so impressed with myself up to that point. Especially on the christmas thing since i read it on a blog for the first time today! Would it not be better to note in the instructions that it is necc to type the "black" into the answer. Good quiz though.

	SillyStokey92:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 22:39 GMT	3 points
	I missed the country singer, whiskey, profitable business and exclusion of a person. I kept trying to put black book.

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	Googs:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 22:41 GMT	-2 points
	Good quiz, however, I thought it could have been a bit more challenging, as evidenced by the percentage of people who got 11 answers or more.

	rahv:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 23:22 GMT	5 points
	I kinda missed "blackout", especially since that is what happened to me after about two thirds of the quiz :)

	ElDavo:	Nov 28th, 2008 at 23:52 GMT	3 points
	10/15. I knew what companies having positive profit margins for the year was, I just didn't know what the phrase they were looking for was.

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	chrispaz:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 00:22 GMT	1 point
	@Leo, I have to agree with yankeessuck, it really isn't necessary to type in 'black' each time. Only two of the answers do not start with the word 'black', and one of those is a name. I think it should be amended.

	HollywoodLeo:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 00:47 GMT	14 points
	I like how "black ball" is accepted for "black list"

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: November 28th, 2008
Category: Language
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	Vernon Gonsalves:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 02:19 GMT	3 points
	Got all. Would have missed Black Friday if I wasn't shopping on Amazon just an hour ago.

	HollywoodLeo:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 02:48 GMT	5 points
	@Chris, following that logic you shouldn't have to type in "Pro" in the "Pro" quiz.

	Father_Time:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 05:59 GMT	4 points
	I copied black and just hit control v all the time, saved me a lot of trouble. Anyway I too missed the whiskey (I don't drink), the country singer (again don't listen to countrty), and I didn't know the horse. I kept thinking it was black stallion for some reason. If you're going to make a second black quiz you should definitely include a certain rolling stones song as one of the answers.

	davidr:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 08:40 GMT	2 points
	@Leo: You're absolutely right: having to type 'pro' each time in the 'pro' quiz is tedious, too, and shouldn't be required.

	C_W_Browne:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 10:24 GMT	4 points
	missed whiskey and country guy

	Justin:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 14:05 GMT	3 points
	I was expecting Blackbeard and Black Label. Got 18/20. Missed the country singer, and the profitable business thing.

	Catherine_F:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 16:51 GMT	1 point
	I missed the singer and the whisky along with everyone else. But I only heard of Black Friday the other day myself. It is not well known anywhere outside North America.

	MickeyM2:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 19:02 GMT	8 points
	I feel like a drunk after reading the comments. I had no problem with the whisky. ;)

	radish:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 21:21 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz, but I thought it'd be about the tracks on the AC/DC album, that'd be great too.

	HamanKarn:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 02:23 GMT	2 points
	What about Blackheart, the Marvel villain? That's a possible entry.

	beckleyman:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 04:46 GMT	2 points
	nailed them all. the only one that gave me a real problem was the horse one, i kept wanting to go with black stallion. i guessed the whiskey on a whim, believe i drank some of it in my wilder days.

	MrEnglishman:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 06:49 GMT	2 points
	Got 19/20, but "Black Friday" means nothing to us in the UK. Nor indeed does Black Velvet. We prefer the Scottish and Irish stuff :)

	bag_a_chips:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 17:02 GMT	2 points
	i was all excited cuz this game is also the same title of the ac/dc album so i was hoping the game would've been to name all the songs from that record.

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	topoisamouse:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 19:47 GMT	-3 points
	I was solid until the last two. Perhaps those should be omitted? otherwise a satisfactory game.

	getahaircut91:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 19:50 GMT	3 points
	i have to disagree, i think that they should be left on, so its not too easy. but maybe use ones that would have a wider audience.

	Catherine_F:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 22:14 GMT	0 points
	lakers22: Why?

	DerKomissar:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 02:37 GMT	3 points
	What about the Stones' song Paint It Black or the great AC/DC album Back In Black????

	davidr:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	3 points
	@various: Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving so it's an exclusively US thing. I wouldn't have known it myself if I hadn't been visiting the US for Thanksgiving.