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Analogies #6

Fill the blanks in these analogies.
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First submittedJune 5, 2013
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Fe is to Iron
H is to Hydrogen
Closet is to Clothes
Vase is to Flowers
Danke is to German
Gracias is to Spanish
Warsaw is to Poland
Baghdad is to Iraq
Moo is to Cow
Quack is to Duck
Romaine is to Lettuce
Hass is to Avocado
Tanner is to Leather
Cobbler is to Shoes
Brunei is to Borneo
Haiti is to Hispaniola
Catcher in the Rye
is to Salinger
Grapes of Wrath
is to Steinbeck
100 is to Celsius
212 is to Fahrenheit
This is to this ...
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Aubergine is to Eggplant
Courgette is to Zucchini
Puck is to Ice Hockey
Shuttlecock is to Badminton
Batman is to Gotham City
Superman is to Metropolis
Sherlock Holmes is to Violin
Ravi Shankar is to Sitar
Mexico is to the United States
Sudan is to Egypt
Duke is to Duchess
Fraternity is to Sorority
Astronaut is to USA
Cosmonaut is to USSR
Clavicle is to Patella
Collar Bone is to Kneecap
AC is to Alternating
DC is to Direct
Franklin is to Eleanor
Bill is to Hillary
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83 Comments
BlendedCow
+4
Level 44
Jun 25, 2013
Fascinating.
buck1017
+12
Level 78
Jun 25, 2013
You know how there are certain people that you can NEVER remember, no matter how many quizzes you take? Mine are Steve Buscemi and John Steinbeck. Crap.
tschutzer
+1
Level 91
Jun 25, 2013
I can believe you about John Steinbeck, but you clearly have learned Steve Buscemi's name, or you would have said "that guy from Boardwalk Empire and Ghost World" instead. :P
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Jun 25, 2013
maybe he just quickly opened up IMDb and typed in Con Air to find out what his name was.
Malbaby
+4
Level 70
Nov 29, 2014
Terrific in FARGO!
interopia
+2
Level 85
Apr 14, 2017
Terrific in Billy Madison
Jacktheguy
+5
Level 90
Apr 14, 2017
I just remember him as Mr. Pink.
Queefola
+3
Level 40
Jul 6, 2021
Spy Kids 2?!? Come on!...
FolgoreCZ
+1
Level 59
Aug 28, 2021
Let's rephrase the question. Is there a film he is NOT terrific in?
xTigeRx
+2
Level 63
Aug 28, 2024
Reservoir dogs mate
duckwantbread
+1
Level 65
Nov 29, 2014
I had Beck in my head and couldn't link it somehow.
cyninoregon
+1
Level 36
Dec 3, 2014
Read Steinbeck! I cannot believe you could forget The Grapes Of Wrath or who wrote it if you sat down and read it--they are not long books. And so relevant to live in the post Bush/Cheney world.
samiamco
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Level 69
Oct 12, 2015
I could only come up with "John S—" in the heat of the moment, but I absolutely loved Grapes of Wrath. I am ashamed.
Sterref10
+3
Level 53
Apr 14, 2017
Anyone else remembering their GCSE English when you hear Steinbeck? Good old Of Mice and Men
zaba2048
+2
Level 72
Apr 14, 2017
We didn't do it for gcse but in the front covers of every copy people had written "***** dies" (unlike them I'm not one for spoilers)
Magarara
+1
Level 54
Apr 15, 2017
Yep
stylus
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Level 77
Jul 4, 2021
now there’s a stupid rule that you can only learn about British writers at GCSE, in case the Americans steal our literature. no more steinbeck for them
Maladroit
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Level 51
Apr 14, 2017
Ah, Steinbeck. How did I know Hispaniola and yet forget him?
RabidPony
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Level 38
Apr 16, 2017
For me it's countries. I always forget about Turkey and the Philippines unless there's a map.
Arron321
+1
Level 27
Jun 25, 2013
can anyone expain the Haiti one to me please?
BlackLab
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Level 66
Feb 2, 2019
It is the same analogy as what we call north America. North America is the USA and Canada. The combination of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are called Hispaniola.
pweent
+24
Level 88
Feb 2, 2019
No, that's not right at all. The analogy is simply country : island. Haiti is on the island of Hispaniola, Brunei is on Borneo.
Blaidd
+10
Level 51
Sep 13, 2019
North America is made up of 23 countries.
xTigeRx
+1
Level 63
Aug 28, 2024
Lemme guess, you re American?
12
+2
Level 24
Mar 18, 2020
Pweent is right. Brunei is on the island of Borneo and Haiti is on the island of Hispaniola.
plattitude
+18
Level 92
Sep 17, 2014
For some reason the clavicle one seems odd. Not wrong, but for some reason I would've expected the clue to be Clavicle : Collar Bone :: Patella : _____.
dasims45
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Level 81
Sep 19, 2014
I thought the same thing. That would be a more direct analogy. Took me a second.
joeythelemur
+2
Level 83
Oct 11, 2014
Right! I couldn't figure out the relation between Clavicle and Patella???
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
May 2, 2021
whatever relationship that exists between a clavicle and a patella, the same relationship must exist between a collar bone and a kneecap.
Ferbin
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Level 76
Jul 5, 2021
Except there's no (evident) relationship between them like there is between all the other cases. While the answer is still discernible, it's nevertheless poorly constructed. The problem is the very structure is different for this one. The rest are "A related to B, as C related to D", whereas this one is "A related to C, as B is related to D", meaning clavicle (technical term) to collar bone (colloquial term) like patella to kneecap. Pairing the technical terms on one side and the colloquial ones on the other doesn't make much sense, as it implies a different relation between them than the already existing one of their names; and also it diverges from the pattern that all other entries follow.
jennywren21
+3
Level 62
Jul 5, 2021
I kept typing "knee" and couldn't understand why it wasn't correct.
jm
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Level 85
Jul 5, 2021
Analogies are basically definitions. That's why this doesn't work. You would never have both clavicle/collarbone and patella in the same definition. This should be changed. Clavicle is to collarbone as patella is to ____.
DracoPotens
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Level 36
Nov 29, 2014
I always enjoyed these analogy quizzes since they really test your mental ability to relate things. I've been pronouncing badminton wrong my whole life. I never knew there was another in the middle of it. Learn something new everyday.
MegB
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Level 46
Feb 20, 2015
How did so little people get zucchini?
Susie222
+2
Level 59
Jul 6, 2015
I had never heard zucchini called "courgette" ("a courgette"?) until Jet Punk. I think it is mostly an European term for the vegetable.
Djilas
+7
Level 83
Apr 9, 2017
Both are European, French/Italian.
CardinalSin
+4
Level 78
Feb 2, 2019
and I've rarely heard a courgette called a zucchini!
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 85
Apr 14, 2017
http://byucougars.com/spirit-squad/cougarettes
kirk0097
+3
Level 76
Oct 19, 2015
Clavicle is to Patella as Collar Bone is to Kneecap

Should be

Clavicle is to Collar Bone as Patella is to Kneecap.

Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Jul 22, 2016
The analogy is as intended. It's meant to exercise your mind in a different way.
ander217
+3
Level 75
Apr 14, 2017
It might be fun to do an entire analogy quiz that way.
OfficerDibble
+4
Level 81
Feb 16, 2018
Hmm. I got the answer without difficulty, but it's the only one that works like that, and I think it's fair to say it doesn't really follow the logic of how the question is phrased ("a is to b as x is to y").
partdavid
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Level 72
Aug 28, 2024
You didn't like it in History Analogies #1 when a user complained about the relationship between the comparators in two limbs of an analogy (Bard : Shakespeare :: Iron Lady : Thatcher--"How could you liken Shakespeare to Thatcher?!"). I agreed with you, because it's a bad analogy to be required to analogize the (irrelevant) comparators, and I said why in the comments on this quiz. What is important in an analogy is to apply the mapping from one comparator to another.

How would you, in words, articulate the mapping from clavicle to patella? To do so in a way that means that only the patella is so related to the clavicle (and not, say, another posterior bone) results in a tortured and inelegant statement (bone count? distance?). That's why it's a less entertaining analogy. I don't see why a bears a different relationship to the collarbone than does the kneecap, for example.

roleybob
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Level 75
Dec 18, 2015
the Sherlock Holmes / Ravi Shankar one is a bit weird - a fictional detective who happens to play violin and a real living musician
roleybob
+2
Level 75
Dec 18, 2015
... oh, apparently Ravi is dead now. Still a weird analogy though
CardinalSin
+8
Level 78
Feb 2, 2019
Quite ridiculous to equate Holmes' ability to play the violin with Shankar who was a genius on the Sitar. Why pick Holmes when there are so many non-fictional great violinists that you could have chosen?
InterAlia
+1
Level 76
Dec 25, 2020
Yes! Itzhak Perlman, to offer perhaps the most obvious of many possibilities.
Jarl5
+1
Level 68
Apr 14, 2017
Please accept "knee" for kneecap
RabidPony
+1
Level 38
Apr 16, 2017
Not specific enough. That's like asking "please accept shoulder" for collarbone
akbadry
+2
Level 51
Apr 14, 2017
How can you not accept "knee" for kneecap??
DeusCaritasEst
+3
Level 55
Apr 14, 2017
Because the kneecap/patella is part of the knee, not the whole thing.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Apr 15, 2017
Bad Mitten. Bad Miton. Bad Minton. Got me on a technicality.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 19, 2020
Those will work now.
Morpioniste
+2
Level 67
Dec 26, 2021
Why would you make wrong answers work though - it's not like they are simple typos (Bad Minton could be I suppose)
fluence51
+2
Level 35
Apr 15, 2017
Can you accept Spanish name for Hispaniola? Kept trying all variants of Española and felt cheated.
Malbaby
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Level 70
Apr 15, 2017
And also the Chinese name for Hispaniola, I tried and also felt cheated.
Sifhraven
+4
Level 72
May 8, 2019
You are a very bitter person arent you?
RabidPony
+1
Level 38
Apr 16, 2017
So THAT's what the little badminton thingy is called... The more you know. It's a funny name, I like it.
Clarkie96
+2
Level 70
Jul 4, 2021
In New Zealand, so many sports teams are named for the colour black (All Blacks = rugby, Tall Blacks = basketball, Black Caps = cricket), the national badminton team decided to call themselves the Black Cocks for a laugh!!
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Apr 16, 2017
Only one I didn't get was Steinbeck. Never heard of it, sorry.
EcceHomo
+2
Level 81
Dec 21, 2020
- that's like swearing...
APHNordics
+3
Level 27
Apr 20, 2017
For cobbler I thought roads, because in England cobblers cobble the cobble roads :D
stone222
+3
Level 48
Sep 23, 2018
cobbler, cobbler,mend my shoe......

get it done by half past two........

if half past two cannot be done.....

get it done by half past one.......

that's going back some 60+ years !!!

Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Feb 2, 2019
Never heard of 'Cobbler' for a person that lays Cobblestones. ..... load of cobblers if you ask me.
roleybob
+2
Level 75
Jun 5, 2018
I though zucchini is what Americans called cucumber, not courgette? Or do they use the same word for both?
tigon05
+3
Level 58
Aug 25, 2018
Nope, two different vegetables here ;)
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Sep 6, 2018
So zucchini is courgette? And cucumber is still cucumber in the US of A?
RobNobody
+2
Level 78
Feb 2, 2019
Yup, a cucumber is just a cucumber here.
MaxStickies
+1
Level 79
Nov 23, 2020
Suggesting that a cucumber may not be a cucumber somewhere else?
RobNobody
+1
Level 78
Aug 28, 2024
Suggesting that roleybob thought cucumbers were called zucchinis here. You know, the comment thread we're in?
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Feb 3, 2021
Suggesting that I though cucumbers were called zucchinis in the USA, as I already said above
Shirmal
+1
Level 55
Aug 17, 2019
could someone explain Sudan/Egypt please?
12
+4
Level 24
Mar 18, 2020
Mexico is south of the U.S. and Sudan is south of Egypt.
Caro101
+1
Level 37
Mar 13, 2021
No one calls it a shuttlecock! It's called a birdie!!!
FolgoreCZ
+4
Level 59
Aug 28, 2021
No one aside most of the world.
DKCtheSecond
+2
Level 50
Mar 23, 2021
There is more than one possible answer for the Batman/Superman analogy. Gotham is Bruce Wayne's hometown, and Smallville is Clark Kent's...
roadrage
+2
Level 67
Jul 4, 2021
The question asks for Superman, not Clark Kent.... or Kal-El
aglelm
+2
Level 64
May 23, 2021
lmao who else first wrote peach for cobbler? just me?
RobNobody
+4
Level 78
Jul 4, 2021
There's something seriously wrong with me when my gut instinct is to put in "Franklin is to Eleanor as Bill is to Ted."
zephyr226
+3
Level 53
Jul 4, 2021
Im assuming Romaine is a type of Lettuce and Hass is a type of Avocado, but I didn't know this. I did know that Romain drove for Haas, and didn't pick up on the differences in spelling. I could not figure out what F1 had to do with salad.
Gp123
+1
Level 44
Jul 4, 2021
Anyone not think of ‘knee cap’ and just try knee to no avail? I tried knee bone also, trying to recall what the right answer would be.
partdavid
+1
Level 72
Aug 28, 2024
It's not a great analogy, because the kneecap is no part of the clavicle, it's just a bone, body part, a thing that's sort of south of the collarbone. It would be improved if it were "clavicle : collarbone :: patella : kneecap".
yourmommacalled
+1
Level 24
Aug 28, 2024
I was very confused , as Hass means hatred in my language
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