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Analogies #10

Can you fill in the blanks to complete these analogies?
Some questions from Jacktheguy and SirStumptown
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First submittedAugust 26, 2017
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Pebble is to Stone
Rock is to Boulder
PBS is to US
BBC is to UK
Ciao is to Italian
Aloha is to Hawaiian
Scarlett O'Hara is to
Margaret Mitchell
Hermione Granger is to
J.K. Rowling
Dick is to Detective
Spook is to Spy
Pride is to Prejudice
Sense is to Sensibility
> is to Diminuendo
< is to Crescendo
June is to Solstice
March is to Equinox
Prosecco is to Italy
Champagne is to France
H1N1 is to Swine
H5N1 is to Bird
This is to this ...
As ...
♂ is to Testosterone
♀ is to Estrogen
Red Cross is to Christianity
Red Crescent is to Islam
Fructose is to Fruit
Lactose is to Milk
Ranch is to United States
Station is to Australia
6 is to Million
12 is to Trillion
Gandalf is to Magneto
Han Solo is to Indiana Jones
M. Night Shyamalan is to
Plot Twist
Michael Bay is to Explosion
MTWTFSS is to Day
MVEMJSUN is to Planet
Army is to Navy
General is to Admiral
Water is to Ice
Carbon Dioxide is to Dry Ice
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70 Comments
sillie
+7
Level 76
Aug 26, 2017
To accomodate UK usage and spelling both "oestrogen" and "billion" should also be accepted.
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Aug 26, 2017
Oestrogen will work now but long scale numbers are no longer current in the UK.
Jerry928
+8
Level 76
Aug 27, 2017
No longer in the UK as you say, but many countries still use the long-scale form - see this map for the usage of each.
sumguy
+11
Level 85
Dec 4, 2017
Since when does Canada use both scales? I have never heard a Canadian say "thousand million", but hey, I've only lived here my entire life.
TomatosRaafatos
+6
Level 74
Dec 4, 2017
Well technically they would say "a millard" for a thousand million.
TomatosRaafatos
+5
Level 74
Dec 4, 2017
And according to the wikipedia article Jerry gave, French Canadians are the ones who are using the long scale.
Arp2600
+2
Level 87
Dec 4, 2017
Indeed. As far as I know, the long scale is the only one used in French.
gamorro
+1
Level 34
Dec 4, 2017
I think that the countries that have a problem with these two scales are the ones that speak Portuguese, Brazil and Portugal for starters use different scales...
SenileS
+2
Level 48
Dec 4, 2017
long scale makes so much more sense
Tomtrific
+3
Level 82
Dec 4, 2017
6 is to million as 12 is to two million makes more sense, in my opinion. But I guess we're doing analogies, no math.
sulfuratus
+8
Level 67
Dec 5, 2017
@Tomtrific: It's about the number of zeroes that follow the one in the corresponding number.
CardinalSin
+3
Level 79
Oct 28, 2019
Quizmaster, this is highly controversial. Never heard of the term "long scale" before but as SenileS says, it makes much more sense. I don't agree that billion for Million squared is no longer current in UK. I'm British and I use it - so that proves you wrong, n'est-ce pas? Some years ago the BBC decided that they would switch to the American system (traitors!) but since when have they authority to alter the meanings of words in my language? Please accept billion as a valid answer to the question.
communistpanda
+2
Level 58
Jun 9, 2024
I hate almost every change Americans have made to our language. But thousand million is just silly. And no one in any kind of mathematical circle would use it.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Oct 28, 2019
It wasn't just the BBC. The government of the UK adopted the short scale for all official uses in 1974.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 57
Nov 20, 2024
The same objection stands... the government doesn't own the language.
ing
+2
Level 72
Dec 23, 2020
Not to even mention the "billion+" Indians, Pakistanis etc. who use lakh and crore (lakh=100k, crore=10M, so 1 lakh crore = 1 trillion, short scale).
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Aug 27, 2017
Very interesting quiz, and I learned about Italian champagne today.
Carry
+2
Level 63
Aug 28, 2017
I wouldn't call it "Italian champagne". Though it's very much like Champagne, Champagne can only be named so if it's from specific French regions while Prosecco can only be named so if it's from specific Italian regions.
DonTheLamplighter
+13
Level 85
Oct 16, 2017
Station? That's it? Australia has such colorful terminology and nicknames. But station??? Very disappointed.
kalbahamut
+28
Level 81
Dec 4, 2017
Yeah I thought it was going to be a woollerycricker or something like that.
Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Dec 4, 2017
That's what we call the Railway Station!
JamesC79
+3
Level 55
Aug 14, 2018
We call the railway station the Traino
grantdon
+3
Level 74
Mar 2, 2018
It's not really in common usage now - more in the squatter era pre-federation (1901). Most people would say Property or Farm now
blizzrd33
+4
Level 80
Dec 22, 2020
Of course it is still in use today, it's just that there are less and less small ones as the big ones gobble them up and get even bigger.
AnnaMehra
+10
Level 55
Feb 12, 2022
I thought ranch meant the dressing so I kept trying vegemite 😂
mightythor
+8
Level 66
Dec 4, 2017
Two Million should be accepted :p.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Dec 4, 2017
The best relationship between 1 million and 6 that you could come up with is "1 million divided by 166666.666667 almost equals 6?"
wtstoudt
+3
Level 80
Dec 4, 2017
I don't understand that question at all. Holocaust deaths to US debt in 2002?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Dec 4, 2017
Million has 6 zeroes
kenpo17
+2
Level 66
Dec 4, 2017
How many zeroes in the number. It took me a bit to figure out what they were asking for.
luxint
+1
Level 66
Dec 4, 2017
Great quiz. One of your best for a while. Cheers
ginjam
+1
Level 55
Dec 4, 2017
I was trying to figure out how the 6 Million Dollar Man, related to a TV or movie title with 12... "12 Monkeys" "12 Angry Men" "12 Years a Slave"
Lemondance
+1
Level 68
Nov 20, 2024
Knowing the right answer is trillion, I'd love to see a movie called "12 Trillion Monkey Man"...... If they heed him he would be unstoppable
chunderbirdsarego
+25
Level 78
Mar 5, 2019
I kept trying vegemite for australia... think I had the wrong ranch
Moos1005
+2
Level 85
Jun 26, 2020
You were not alone!
blizzrd33
+4
Level 80
Dec 21, 2020
Finally an Australian-centric clue! I was one of the 17% who got this one, easy.
blizzrd33
+10
Level 80
Dec 21, 2020
My geology lecturer would have lost his mind if I'd suggested your Rock / Boulder analogy. The scientific terms are cobble / boulder (both of which are differently sized rocks). We were taught to avoid non-scientific lay terms such as pebble, stone, etc. under threat of failure if we ever used them! Takes me back to my days at uni...
AnnikaKim
+1
Level 64
Nov 20, 2024
Yeah, it would have made geologically more sense to say "pebble is to cobble like cobble is to _______".
sumguy
+5
Level 85
Dec 22, 2020
This is way harder than the first nine. I've never even seen the word diminuendo before. Or Prosecco. Had no idea that a ranch is called a "station" in Australia. I still got 17, but almost all of them were harder than any of the previous nine quizzes, all of which I've taken within the last 24 hours.
phalocrocorax
+2
Level 83
Dec 22, 2020
It might be worth accepting galactose for the sugar one, since it's a monosaccharide (like fructose but unlike lactose). Of course, anyone who knows what galactose is will go for lactose when that doesn't work, so it's unlikely to matter.
mf3
+7
Level 88
Dec 22, 2020
Restore the P in MVEMJSUNP! :)
prs17
+4
Level 75
Dec 23, 2020
To quote Jon Stewart, My Very Excellent Mother Just Said, "Uh-oh, No Pluto."
Djilas
+2
Level 83
Dec 22, 2020
Ironically the name of Prosecco village is originally Slovenian.
cmountenay
+2
Level 87
Mar 21, 2021
The Italians took a lot of Slovene land after WWI, including the city of Trieste.
GerhardE
+1
Level 27
Sep 27, 2021
Well, it was all Austria once..

Ok, the Austro-Hungarian empire.

jm
+10
Level 85
Dec 22, 2020
Army is to Navy as General is to Admiral

Not an analogy - close though. The relationship between the two sets don't match.

Army is to General as Navy is to Admiral (top rank of the the service) would be one way to make it correct.

tyleranwar
+3
Level 78
Dec 23, 2020
damn i thought prosecco was a cheese
dmachine
+4
Level 57
Oct 1, 2021
But if it's not from Prosecco you have to call it "sparkling cheese."
joeythelemur
+6
Level 83
Dec 26, 2020
Tougher than the others for sure, but fun. However, the Gandalf/Magneto/HanSolo one makes no sense to me. It was clear that of the first two, it was the same actor playing both, but there's no real relationship between those characters other than the actor. If that's all it is, then technically the answer could be any other role that was played by Harrison Ford, which really isn't an analogy in my view. I did eventually get it after guessing a few, but this one isn't up to the same standard as the other questions.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 91
Dec 28, 2020
This was one of mine that was borrowed from my Movie Analogies quiz, which admittedly I haven't updated in a while and probably should if I ever get around to it.

Anyway, the analogy here is the most well-known characters that have been played by the same actor. Ian McKellen's best known roles are Gandalf and Magneto, and Harrison Ford's best known roles are Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Hope that clears things up.

Jango
+1
Level 64
Jul 6, 2021
I do, and I'm a big fan of Ian McKellen
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 91
Sep 26, 2021
I guess if you're a big fan, maybe it would make sense if you'd start to think of other movies first. But I'm not convinced that this is the case for everyone.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Sep 26, 2021
the correct person to ask about an actor's "best known" roles would be... everyone. It's not a subjective thing, it's based on general consensus. Though I'll admit I'm not perfectly satisfied with this as an analogy either.
Walacama
+2
Level 82
Sep 26, 2021
They are also recurring roles that both actors played in different franchises. Rocky Balboa is to John Rambo as Agent Smith is to Elrond. Okay, I guess its a bit of a stretch as far as analogies go, but I still like it.
Silverblade
+2
Level 45
Sep 27, 2021
The first time I noticed McKellen was indeed from his Richard III. He was amazing. But it would have made it too hard for most people, not to mention that Gandalf, Magneto, Han Solo and Indiana Jones are all fictional characters.
dmachine
+1
Level 57
Oct 1, 2021
I thought of "good guy and bad guy played by the same actor," which would have been an interesting analogy. But what bad guy did Ford play? Probably Han Solo is the worst guy because he was a smuggler.

And Magneto, though the antagonist, only used evil *means* to achieve his goals. His *motivation* was the same as Charles Xavier's: the acceptance of mutants by non-mutants.

Jacktheguy
+1
Level 91
Oct 3, 2021
Ford was the bad guy in What Lies Beneath. Pretty forgettable movie unfortunately.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 82
Jul 9, 2024
It doesn't make a neat analogy for me.
Silverblade
+3
Level 45
Sep 27, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan is to

Plot Twist

Michael Bay is to ******ion

I laughed hard.

YantheMan
+1
Level 66
Nov 21, 2024
Yeah that one was pretty funny
bolivraga
+1
Level 55
Sep 27, 2021
Monolith is perhaps more correct and more used than Boulder outside the US.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Dec 20, 2021
Hmmm...i'm from the Midwest...when i see Ranch, i think of something quite different...which is why i guessed Vegemite :-)
AbiA
+2
Level 85
Jun 10, 2022
Twist of Plot twist should not have a capital letter: it makes it look like the name of a film.
SpacemanSpiff
+1
Level 65
May 16, 2024
.....as Michael Bay is to jingoism......LOL
Aoto327
+1
Level 75
May 17, 2024
Didn’t know most of them, the most difficult so far.
TrippySaturn
+1
Level 28
May 21, 2024
The number one confused me, as 'biljoen' (the Dutch word for the number with 12 zeros) translates to trillion, and not billion, as I expected
Remster
+1
Level 78
Nov 20, 2024
I got them all except the Gandalf/Magneto/Han Solo one. The answer could have been any other character from kids' films for all I knew.
jonf
+1
Level 70
Nov 20, 2024
...as Michael Bay is to confusovision?
jedgeco
+1
Level 55
Nov 20, 2024
Gandalf is to Magneto :: Han Solo is to Indiana Jones

This analogy does not quite work; Ian McKellen has played Gandalf 6 times and Magneto 5 times, whereas Ford has played both Han Solo and Indy 5 times.

Jacktheguy
+1
Level 91
Nov 20, 2024
That's not what the analogy is. It's the two most well-known characters played by the same person.
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