Can you name the things Sporcle taught me how to spell? by wilsonhubbell

Obvious Clue	Answer	Category
The largest city in New Mexico and home to the Isotopes		Geography
The first thing you typed without reading any of the clues		Sporclese
Antonie who improved the microscope and established microbiology		Science
Dan who is the voice of Homer Simpson and many other characters		TV
Jake and Maggie who are successful sibling actors		Movies
The party game where you list many things with the same letter		Games
Arnold who is the one and only Governator of Cahleefonyah		Politics
Ben who has won the Super Bowl twice as a QB for the Steelers		Sports
Chuck who wrote Fight Club and Choke, among others		Literature
Christina who has had five platinum full-length albums		Music

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Things Sporcle Taught Me How To Spell Quiz

by wilsonhubbell

Created Jul 28, 2010 in Miscellaneous
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	Cyruscosis:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 16:04 GMT	95 points
	I loved 'The first thing you typed without reading any of the clues'. It's what I was thinking as soon as I saw the title.

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	wilsonhubbell:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 16:54 GMT	36 points
	It's actually Antonie VAN Leeuwenhoek. (And it accepts that.)

	like_a_flower:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 17:43 GMT	5 points
	@wilsonhubbell: Nice comment! Nice quiz! I took this quiz just to see if the last item was actually going to be here (: I still can't spell the last name of that quarterback though... Back to the drawing board with that one! Or spelling bee?!...

	rgottfried:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT	28 points
	krzyzewski?

	Tahnan:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 19:55 GMT	13 points
	rogttfried: Nope. Sporcle still hasn't taught me how to spell that one. (Maybe Yasztremski. If I even got that right, which I doubt.)

	briskt:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 20:14 GMT	3 points
	sporcle taught me Mount Kosciuszko

	Hejman:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 21:07 GMT	16 points
	Yastrzemski? Seriously though, this is already a very fun quiz, but could be a great one if it was expanded a bit more.

	mrpotwtf69:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 21:28 GMT	52 points
	Maybe add Reykjavik the Iceland capital.

	leppyfresh:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 21:53 GMT	27 points
	You can also add Ouagadougou (capital of Burkina Faso) and Yamoussoukro (capital of Cote d'Ivoire). Good quiz.

	peanut4:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 00:19 GMT	3 points
	You could add another capital - Antananarivo. Though I'm still unsure how to spell it, so Sporcle hasn't finished its lesson!

	wilsonhubbell:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 00:32 GMT	10 points
	Yeah, there are tons of geography possibilities I could add to expand the quiz; but I wanted the category balance. Keep suggestions coming, but try to branch outside of geography. That barrel has too many fish.

	confused:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:38 GMT	5 points
	Love the game!! I happen to have trouble with Ecclesiastes and Appomattox (Religion and History), but I may be particularly inept. Yastrzemski is good suggestion, but was used on a similar, already published quiz.

	leppyfresh:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 02:15 GMT	5 points
	@wilsonhubbell: King Tutankhamun (History), Exodus and Deuteronomy (Religion), Praseodymium (Science), and Mike Krzyzewski (Sports). Those are the only ones I can think of for each topic on the top of my head. I can't think of anything for movies, politics, TV, and literature, sorry.

	diverted:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 02:49 GMT	12 points
	hahahahaha thats amazing...i actually typed kyrgyzstan the second i pressed the green button to start, and then i read the clue!! those are the little nuances that make us love sporcle so much!! :D

	miko:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 03:25 GMT	11 points
	good quiz, but scattergories seems straightforward to me.

	Golden:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 03:53 GMT	4 points
	I second Praseodymium as a good addition! On other note, apparently Sporcle has of yet failed to teach me how to spell Pahlaniuk... pahaluniak... oh, whatever

	Golden:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 03:56 GMT	4 points
	Actually, I second lots og these - Deuteronomy and Coach K are great additions that shouldn't upset the balance too badly. I feel the easiest on here by a long way are Aguilera and Scattergories (meanwhile, calling scattergories a 'party game' misled me completely so I didn't get it from the clue, despite not having any spelling issues with it). All in all, however, 5 orcles (6 if i could!)

	yggdrasil:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 04:26 GMT	8 points
	Sporcle has also taught me how to spell dan aykroyd (TV) and wally szczerbiak (sports) correctly.

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	teh_DR:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT	5 points
	haha, i love the kyrgyzstan "clue"

	Cheezzy0:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:01 GMT	3 points
	If you hover around NHL quizzes, you could add Nieuwendyk and Vanbeisbrouck...

	kyll:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:59 GMT	3 points
	holy crap, this is so true!!!

	Sqwerty:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 07:26 GMT	3 points
	Totally agree to get rid of Scattergories (virtually all the rest are not Phonetic) and please add a few (two for each category ?), maybe use some of the ones that are being voted up on 'User Comments' My offering is Szyslak. As a final thought, the first spelling Sporcle ever taught me and you ! was 'Sporcle'.

	akbackstreetgirl:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 08:53 GMT	2 points
	When I first got to this page the "thing you typed without reading any of the clues" clue was listed first, which just felt right. Unfortunately, I had to do something else which required me to leave and come back so my time didn't run out and show all the answers, and that clue went to third from the bottom. :( Also, in the same vein as Sqwerty's suggestion of Szyslak - perhaps Apu's last name?

	mailman:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 11:05 GMT	-2 points
	Nowitzki, Olajuwon and Schrempf

	JeevesJenkins:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 11:32 GMT	5 points
	Needs more Wally Szczerbiak

	jackster608:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 13:05 GMT	2 points
	@ akbackstreetgirl Nahasapeemapetilon. I think that is Apu's last name. But definitely should be in the quiz, although it would then have 2 simpsons questions.

	wilsonhubbell:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 13:11 GMT	5 points
	Thanks for all the ideas. I am sure I will either make a sequel or double the size of this one. I haven't decided yet.

	wilsonhubbell:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 13:14 GMT	2 points
	...and if I can be a bit strategic about all of this Sporcle traffic today, please indulge me in telling you about the one quiz that I have made that I think has gone most unappreciated. If you have the spare time, please Ctrl+C Ctrl+V your way over: http://www.sporcle.com/games/wilsonhubbell/FruityMovieQuotes Thanks!

	kinga3:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 13:14 GMT	2 points
	how about baseball quizzes? yastrzemski?

	XCBoss:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 14:34 GMT	3 points
	What about Coach K?

	ibmartin:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 15:34 GMT	2 points
	It actually took me longer to learn Kazakhstan than Kyrgyzstan, but a good quiz nonetheless.

	sevorak:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 16:48 GMT	2 points
	@Cheezzy0: I think half the players in the NHL could go on this list.

	kidcanada:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 17:19 GMT	2 points
	You should all make sure to see the governator's new hit comedy smash movie JINGLEALLTHEWAY!!!

	yimababwe:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 17:50 GMT	0 points
	Jingle All the Way is actually kind of old (I've had it on VHS for a number of years), but by all means, go watch it people! We love the Governator! 5 globes for this quiz because the Kyrgyzstan clue read my mind.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 18:13 GMT	2 points
	The first thing I typed without reading any of the clues was Kyrgyzstan.

	quizzler11:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 18:28 GMT	3 points
	Scattergories should stay because if you look at any quiz where it is an answer there is one idiot making the comment "it did't take scattagories". People don't actually know how to say it. Once you do, it is, i agree, phonetic.

	winner:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT	2 points
	carl yastrzemski

	Pit_trout:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 18:58 GMT	2 points
	@quizzler11: in most non-US and some US accents, the "r" before a consonant isn't pronounced, so "scattergories" and "scattagories" would sound exactly the same. So yes, it's phonetic, but (for most accents) there are about half a dozen other phonetic ways you could spell it as well.