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These people, places, and things are often known by multiple different names. We give you one, can you guess the other?
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First submittedAugust 15, 2013
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Orca
Killer whale
The Great War
World War I
Republic of China
Taiwan
The Millennium Wheel
The London Eye
Siddhartha Gautama
Buddha
Myanmar
Burma
Academy Award
Oscar
Islas Malvinas
Falkland Islands
Decompression sickness
The Bends
The Bishop of Rome
The Pope
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Willis Tower
Sears Tower
Asia Minor
Anatolia
The French Open
Roland Garros
Mountain lion
Cougar
Pyrite
Fool's gold
Generation Y
Millennials
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
V. I. Lenin
Antarctic Ocean
Southern Ocean
Blackjack
Twenty-one
Nacre
Mother-of-pearl
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32 Comments
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Level 93
Jan 17, 2014
Please accept "the eye" for the Milennium Wheel.
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Level 34
Jan 25, 2014
Yeah, I wrote "eye of London" and it wasn't accepted either.
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Level 79
Jan 25, 2014
I tried Apottosaurus or something like that
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Level ∞
Jan 25, 2014
"Eye" or "The Eye" will work now.
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Level 47
May 2, 2014
No clue what it's called. And I see it all the time on "Doctor Who."
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Level 62
Jan 25, 2014
For an English-language quiz, the islands should be the Falkland Islands, also known as "Islas Malvinas", not the other way round.
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Level 79
Jan 25, 2014
why?
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Level 79
Jan 25, 2014
Orca also known as blackfish
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Level 95
Nov 15, 2025
By who?
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Level 55
Feb 8, 2026
There's a documentary with that title that I find misleading since many people don't know that orcas are not fish.
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Level 67
Apr 26, 2014
Bwahaha! I didn't have the faintest idea what the clap thing could be, so I thought I thought maybe it had to do with movies and Hollywood - because of filming clapboards. Hot damn was I far from the truth! :-D
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Level 72
Dec 1, 2014
Why did I think the Bends was spelled Benz?
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Level 89
Jun 2, 2018
That only refers to decompression sickness after you accidentally drive your Mercedes into the ocean.
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Level 58
Oct 2, 2018
me too
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Level 76
Nov 14, 2025
Same here. I thought maybe the Radiohead album spelt it that way, but nope. Mandela effect
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Level 63
Apr 28, 2016
I thought Asia Minir what the Middle East…now I know. :)
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Level 80
Nov 14, 2025
It's considered part of the Middle East, but it's not synonymous as the Middle East also includes Egypt, the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iran, and Iraq in addition to Asia Minor.
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Level 63
Apr 28, 2016
*minor, *was
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Level 82
Nov 13, 2025
I think 'First World War' should also be accepted.
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Level ∞
Nov 14, 2025
Okay
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Level 82
Nov 14, 2025
thanks :)
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Level 67
Nov 14, 2025
Nice series of quizzes these QM. Thanks
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Level 87
Nov 14, 2025
I certainly had to look up who or what Roland Garros is. Why would 72% of people know that?
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Level 88
Nov 14, 2025
It's one of the world's most famous sports tournaments?
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Level 89
Nov 15, 2025
I figured is the British tournament was referred to by the location name, maybe the French one would be too. Thankfully, it is.
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Level 95
Nov 15, 2025
Roland Garros was an early aviator, killed in WWI. The stadium was named in his honour
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Level 79
Nov 14, 2025
Fun quiz
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Level 80
Nov 14, 2025
I've been reading too much Raymond Chandler, guessing "sap" first for "blackjack."
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Level 82
Dec 18, 2025
I first tried vingt et un. I'd say that should be accepted, though 21 is a lot faster to type, I'll grant.
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Level 77
Nov 18, 2025
Only someone who did not grow up in Illinois calls it the Willis Tower. Natives will always call it Sears Tower.
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Level 70
Nov 19, 2025
Decompression sickness is also known as divers disease or caisson disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness

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Level 50
Mar 24, 2026
At school we used to call Blackjack pontoon.