Shapes and Symbols #1

Guess the names of these shapes and symbols.

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First submitted	May 20, 2012
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Level 18

May 20, 2012

bol?

Level 28

May 20, 2012

More of these! I love symbols.

Level 15

May 21, 2012

Can't spell caduceus to save my life

Level 70

Nov 19, 2014

Wanna bet?

Level 69

Nov 7, 2018

try hermes next time, worked for me

Level 81

May 21, 2012

Super idea for a quiz! I love it.

Level 72

May 24, 2012

Can you please accept French lily for fleur-de-lis? I kept trying to spell it with flor.

Level 14

Jun 13, 2012

i kept on saying pirate for the skull and crossbones lol :)

Level 63

Oct 13, 2012

The whole hexagon, pentagon stuff is so much easier in German.

Dreieck, Viereck, Fünfeck, Sechseck, Siebeneck, Achteck...

You just put the number and eck and there you go. :D

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Level 41

Nov 23, 2014

It makes sense if you know the prefixes, as hexa=6, penta=5, etc. Just like naming structures in chemistry.

Level 61

Nov 6, 2018

Except for tetra

Level 63

Nov 12, 2018

That's only because we colliqually call a tetragon, a "square". But a tetragon would make sense.

Level 70

Nov 8, 2015

It's even easier in Chinese (Mandarin of course)

Level 60

Nov 6, 2017

五角形，六角形，七角形，八角形...

Level 73

Mar 6, 2013

Great quiz!

Level 24

Apr 30, 2013

I am so happy that Jesus Fish was accepted because I had no idea what the correct term was! >.< I only missed the rod with the serpents. :(

Level 27

Aug 17, 2013

For your "Skull and Crossbones," I would have thought "Toxic" would be accepted. I've seen it often enough.

Level 66

Nov 26, 2013

Agreed!

Level 67

Jan 10, 2020

Poison was accepted

Level 52

Jan 7, 2014

I used to think that skull thing meant 'danger'

Level 57

Mar 7, 2014

You should accept alpha for the Fish one. It is just a slightly more stretched version of the same symbol.

Level 41

Nov 23, 2014

So in other words, it's not the alpha symbol.

Level 63

May 23, 2014

I was surprised that "mobius strip" was not accepted for the infinity symbol.

Level 85

Nov 19, 2014

A true mobius has one surface and one edge, which is different from the infinity symbol.

Level 32

Aug 31, 2014

Hammer and Sickle....seems obvious. And yet.....I didn't know it.

Level 68

Nov 19, 2014

Please include totenkopf for skull and crossbones?

Level 71

Nov 19, 2014

Should put feet on that fish and see how many get it right then.

Level 76

Nov 19, 2014

You mean Darwin fish....like the one on the back of my car!

Level 68

Nov 19, 2014

Typed "Mercury" for the Venus symbol and got caduceus! Freebee but will never forget caduceus now!

Level 73

Nov 19, 2014

Kept trying to think what is fleur-de-lis in english (i'm francophone)...should have just given it a shot

Level 85

Nov 19, 2014

So, I get every other symbol and reach the caduceus, which I have only ever seen on the signs of pharmacies and other medical organizations. I spent the better part of three minutes trying every possible variation of the words medicine and pharmacy. Only after the quiz do I discover that the caduceus erroneously takes the place of the Rod of Asclepius on 76% of commercial healthcare organizations in the United States.

Level 58

Nov 19, 2014

Ironically, the caduceus was traditionaly used to represent merchants, among other things.

Level 69

Aug 18, 2016

Yeah, not accepting "medicine", "medical", "doctor", "physician", "medic" (all of which I tried), etc., doesn't really make any sense, since the other accepted answers for the more abstracted symbols are what the symbol *represents*, not what the symbol *is*.

Level 82

Oct 4, 2017

It does not represent medicine, it represents commerce. Stupid commercial healthcare organizations use it because they are stupid. Most doctors and professional medical associations use the correct symbol, the Rod of Asclepius.

Level 69

Sep 9, 2018

Ah, I gotcha! I didn't even know the difference between the caduceus and the Rod of Asclepius for the exact reason you said, Walacama: in the US there is SUCH widespread misuse of the caduceus, that the Rod of Asclepius – the CORRECT symbol for medical uses – looks completely unfamiliar to me! I'm going to start Twitter-shaming places like those 24-hour urgent care chains who are misusing the caduceus on their web sites. Thanks for the education, Quizmaster and commenters!!

Level 66

Nov 19, 2014

good quiz nice to have something bit different, thanks

Level 29

Nov 19, 2014

I literally typed in "Jesus", and then "Fish", but didn't think that Jesus Fish was the actual term. *facedesk*

Level 66

Jan 15, 2017

You stole my Jesus Fish

Level 72

Apr 18, 2019

It isnt

Level 71

Nov 19, 2014

i didn't know the religious ones very well but i got all the other ones fine

Level 48

Nov 21, 2014

Wish I could spell caduceus right...

Level 33

Oct 22, 2015

I took a very big leap with Jesus Fish, hahahaha. It paid off.

Level 22

Jan 27, 2016

That infinity symbol isn't called that but called the lemniscate. The lemniscate is used as a symbol for infinity. At the very least, the word "lemniscate" should be accepted as an answer also.

Level 54

Jul 7, 2016

"Triangle without a tip" didn't work for trapezoid :(

Level 69

Jan 3, 2017

Could you accept "Christian Fish" for Ichthys?

Level 59

Feb 1, 2017

Fun little quiz, though maybe not the most challenging thing in the world. Fleur-de-lis was a good addition, Ichthys and Caduceus, too. Is there a more difficult version?

Level 71

Apr 17, 2017

quadrilateral seemed to me to be a good word. Also nuclear symbol and Christian or Christianity. Fun, tho.

Level 20

Apr 17, 2017

Anyone else type communism ? cuz I did ;)

Level 74

Apr 17, 2017

I had to look up correct spellings for caduceus and ichthys. I was trying cadduceus and ichthius, ichtheus, etc. I also tried Jesus and fish, but not Jesus fish. A fun quiz.

Level 67

Jan 10, 2020

I spelled it 'ichthus' and it accepted it

Level 67

Sep 30, 2017

I accidentally entered "Canada" instead of "maple leaf". Whoops.

Level 66

Oct 14, 2017

I got the Caduceus thanks to Mercy in Overwatch!

Level 27

Oct 14, 2017

I put davids star but didnt get it?

Level 72

Apr 18, 2019

That is one s too many

Level 46

Nov 26, 2017

could you just accept fish or christian fish for the jesus fish? I knew it was a religious symbol and a fish but had no idea it could be called a jesus fish

Level 24

Nov 29, 2017

Am I the only one who tried "Communism" for the hammer and sickle one? :P Really fun quiz, would like for "Staff of Asclepius" to have been accepted and "toxic" for the skull and crossbones (chemistry)

Level 78

Feb 26, 2018

The Staff of Asclepius and the caduceus are two different symbols, though.

Level 78

Dec 8, 2017

Can you accept Christ instead of Jesus fish?

Level 23

Dec 12, 2017

who was the 2% who missed square?????????

Level 92

Apr 18, 2018

Did you ever know the term for a 12-sided polyhedron confidently enough to instantly type it in without thinking about it, get it right, and then immediately start to wonder how in the hell you knew that?

Level 72

Apr 18, 2019

I knew it was twelve and something with deca. Bi deca flashed through my head haha i knew that wasnt it but couldnt think of the right word.

Level 74

Apr 19, 2018

In Scandinavia, a heart on a door means you've found the toilet. (Turn it upside down and you'll see the supposed reason why.)

Level 76

May 1, 2018

...and turn it sideways and you'll soon find the symbol of Love Records.

Level 90

Apr 20, 2018

Fun quiz. I think polyhedron should be accepted for the last one, though. The shape depicted IS a polyhedron, and it's difficult to tell exactly how many sides it has by looking at the two dimensional photo.

Level 62

Apr 22, 2018

Nah. If you were to accept polyhedron, you would also have to accept polygon for hexagon, octagon, and trapezoid.

Level 49

Jun 13, 2018

true but if Jesus fish is accepted for Ichthys then simpler names should be put for the more difficult ones for example I put female for the Venus Symbol so I think POLYHEDRON should be acceptable yet I didn't make the quiz so all I can give are suggestions

Level 87

Jun 14, 2018

Can you accept hexagram for the star of david?

Level 73

Nov 6, 2018

A little lenience for Ichthys?

Level 25

Nov 6, 2018

Star of David is the star from the Israel Flag.

Level 56

Nov 7, 2018

penny in the air

Level 60

Nov 6, 2018

"Skull and cross" should be accepted for "Skull and crossbones".

Level 72

Apr 18, 2019

There is no cross in it though

Level 91

Nov 6, 2018

Maybe accept "Staff of Hermes/Mercury"?

Level 56

Nov 7, 2018

Hermes carried it but called a caduceus

Level 59

Nov 6, 2018

Could you allow "staff of Hermes" for Caduceus?

Level 66

Nov 6, 2018

Seems a little weird to me that "Jesus" is an acceptable type in, but "fish" is not.

Level 67

Jan 10, 2020

Ichthys stands for Jesus, though. It takes the first couple of letters from each word in Jesus Christ Son of God (or something like that) in Greek.

Level 63

Nov 6, 2018

I thought it was Hammer and Scythe. Isn't a scythe the same thing?

Also I put Red Crescent, thinking you meant the equivalent of the Red Cross. If you just want crescent could you change the colour please?

Level 66

Nov 6, 2018

Agreed. I tried "Hammer and Scythe" and couldn't figure out why it wasn't accepted. It should be IMO. (I guess they're slightly different tools, but still...)

Level 74

Nov 6, 2018

Scythe is long handled and less curved?

Level 78

Apr 18, 2019

Yep. A scythe is used with both hands to cut high stalks of grass or crop. A sickle is a hand-tool used to cut smaller plants and twigs.

Level 74

Nov 6, 2018

Fair play to anyone who can see the other 7 faces of the dodecahedron!

Level 77

Nov 6, 2018

Yuhua Hamasaki taught me about the ankh.

Level 56

Nov 7, 2018

I tried Christian fish

Level 34

Nov 7, 2018

u called it jesus fish im dying

Level 41

Nov 8, 2018

When I saw Jesus Fish, all I could think of was Thanos Car.

Level 77

Nov 8, 2018

"Red Crescent" not accepted? You don't call the Red Cross just Cross, do you?

Level 72

Apr 18, 2019

A crescent is a crescent. Apparently reading your and one other comment there is something called specifically red crescent, but that is not the only crescent out there. (Like heart is probably used for many things, the symbol is still a heart though)

Level 78

Apr 18, 2019

But if only a crescent is asked for, it should have a neutral color. They are not typically displayed in red, unlike a heart. So, if it IS red, it should be called a red crescent.

Level 55

Nov 10, 2018

I couldn't for the life of me think of what to call "Jesus fish" :|

Level 64

May 4, 2019

Could you accept "ank" as a type in for ankh? I knew the word, but not the the spelling lol! I'm sure that there are other quizzers in this boat. Thanks and what a fun quiz! :)

Level 63

May 5, 2019

Accept Love heart as well as Heart??

Level 45

May 11, 2019

Got all apart from the ankh!

Level 25

May 24, 2021

accept octogan please

Level 22

Jun 23, 2021

Welp, I thought it was spelled "ying yang" lol

Level 68

Nov 16, 2021

Great fun, different and drawn from a good variety of subjects.

Level 80

Apr 16, 2022

I'm not religious by any means, but I am shocked to see how few people got the Jesus fish. I tried, "fish," and when that didn't work, typed "Jesus." Maybe it's so low because the user didn't allow "Jesus fish" as an answer for quite some time.

Level 67

Apr 28, 2022

I put yinandyang and it wasn't accepted. Unless I misspelt it

Level 56

Aug 6, 2022

Not all the symbols came through on my iPhone 13

Level 68

Oct 16, 2024

Could not for the life of me remember trapezoid... my mind kept jumping to rhombus

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