Alphabet Game

[rewhu]

Here's a simple game. Starting with a general topic, we reference specifics while working our way through the alphabet. For example:

Elements

Aluminum
Barium
Calcium…

Please note that there is no element that starts with a J. In this case we would just skip to the next letter. Also, for ease of play words beginning with EX can count as X. The person to reach the last letter offers the next topic. Other rules to follow if necessary. Let’s begin with something simple.

Movie Titles

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

[le Duc]

Bringing Up Baby

[searcher]

Catch me if you can

[Zzyber]

Dark City

[rara avis]

Enter the Dragon

[curiousjane]

Finding Nemo

[le Duc]

Gladiator

[Andrew Popovici]

Hannibal Rising

[Kathryn]

In Cold Blood

[luna]

Juno

[notoppings]

Kill or be killed.

[Nikita]

Lost in Translation

[Allie]

Monster

[le Duc]

North by Northwest

[notoppings]

Outsiders.

[le Duc]

Princess Bride, The

[Kathryn]

Quiet, The

[rwyatt365]

Risky Business

[notoppings]

Swordfish.

[le Duc]

Two Towers, The

[Kathryn]

Untouchables, The

[notoppings]

View to a kill.

[Cicatrix]

Wierd Science

[Queen Mum]

X-Men

[notoppings]

Young Guns

[Nikita]

Zathura.


Next category: Animals


Antelope

[Allie]

Boa constrictor

[Nikita]

donkey

[rewhu]

Emu

[curiousjane]

Fisher
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[Nikita]

gnu

[curiousjane]

hedgehog
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[Nikita]

impala

[Josephine1012]

jackal

[searcher]

Kangaroo

[rewhu]

Lemming

[le Duc]

Moose

[notoppings]

Newt.

[le Duc]

Orangutan

[notoppings]

Possum.

[curiousjane]

"Quick brown fox" (as in, the fox that jumped over the lazy dog).

Just kidding. A quick glance at Yahoo! Answers reveals ...


Quail.
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[le Duc]

Raccoon.

[notoppings]

Scallop.

[rewhu]

Scallop.

LOL

Tiger

[le Duc]

Unicorn (really! I saw one the other day)

[rara avis]

Vole

[le Duc]

Wombat

[Zzyber]

Xenopus

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[rewhu]

Yak

[searcher]

Zebra finch

New topic...Foods

Ambrosia

[le Duc]

Bread:cheesy:

[rewhu]

Cranberry sauce

[Zzyber]

Dumplings

[le Duc]

Éclair

[Queen Mum]

Fried Rice

[le Duc]

Guacamole

[Mau]

Hummmmm..........Hummus!

[Kathryn]

I scream...

[notoppings]

Jam.

[le Duc]

Krumkake

[notoppings]

Linguine.

[Nikita]

Meatball

[le Duc]

Millet

Nuts, I was too slow.

[Kathryn]

Oatmeal

[Nikita]

Porridge

[le Duc]

Quinoa

[Nikita]

Rhubarb

[le Duc]

Sauerkraut

[notoppings]

Tripe.

[Kathryn]

Unicorn (the new red meat).

[notoppings]

Veal. more meat.

[Nikita]

wheat

[le Duc]

Xigua

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[Mau]

yeast, (what makes b-day cakes and beer so good!)

[Kathryn]

Ziti

New subject: Countries

[Nikita]

Argentina

[le Duc]

Bangladesh

[Nikita]

Cambodia

[notoppings]

Denmark.

[Nikita]

Equatorial Guinea

[le Duc]

Fiji

[Nikita]

Gabon

[le Duc]

Honduras

[Kathryn]

Indonesia

[Allie]

Japan

[le Duc]

Kiribati

[Andrew Popovici]

Lesotho

[Nikita]

Myanmar

[Andrew Popovici]

Niger

[Nikita]

Oman

[le Duc]

Palau

[luna]

Qatar

[Nikita]

Romania

[Andrew Popovici]

GASP! Romania's where I was born!

uh... Slovakia

[Nikita]

cool =)

Tanzania

[Andrew Popovici]

Uruguay

[Nikita]

Vietnam

[notoppings]

Wales.

[Andrew Popovici]

Wales a country? I don't think so... but I've been thinking for forever and I can't think of anything! and i don't want to google it just yet...





Andrew Popovici added to this post, 3 minutes and 5 seconds later...

I take that back. Appearently Wales is a separate nation and a constituent of the UK. Whaddaya know...

I think x will be even harder

[Nikita]

I don't think there is an "X" country, so I'll hit "Y" with Yemen

[notoppings]

Zambia.

New Topic. Books.

All the Kings Men.

[Andrew Popovici]

the Bible!

[Nikita]

Big Sur (Kerouac)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)

[Andrew Popovici]

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (gosh this topic is harder than i anticipated, and I know I know lots of books)

[Nikita]

Enemy of the People, An (Ibsen)

[Andrew Popovici]

Finnegan's Wake (forgot the author)





Andrew Popovici added to this post, 0 minutes and 46 seconds later...

nvm, it's by Joyce. I thought so, thank you Google! =)

[Nikita]

Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

[notoppings]

Horten Hears a Who. The great Dr. S.

[Nikita]

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Ayn Rand)

[rewhu]

Jump Book by Philippe Halsman

[Nikita]

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Orwell)

[Kathryn]

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

[Nikita]

Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)

[rewhu]

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

[searcher]

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

[le Duc]

Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

[Nikita]

Queen Victoria's Jubilee (Mark Twain)

[Queen Mum]

Redwall, by Brian Jacques

[Nikita]

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne)

[LaoTzu]

Tom Sawyer (Twain)

[Nikita]

Utopia (More)





NikitaNT added to this post, 366 minutes and 48 seconds later...

Vita Vergiliana (Aelius Donatus)

[notoppings]

Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett

[Nikita]

Xanth (Piers Anthony)
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (Stephen King)
Zathura (Allsburg)


Next Category: Great historical figures (well-known, in other words...if they're in history books, they're game)


Alexander the Great

[Allie]

The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) *ya--I am ancient!*

or

Your Complete Guide to Early Retirement: A Step-by-Step Plan for Making it Happen (Sandy Baker)

[Nikita]

The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) *ya--I am ancient!*

or

Your Complete Guide to Early Retirement: A Step-by-Step Plan for Making it Happen (Sandy Baker)

There's a new category up, books are done. =)

Xanth (Piers Anthony)
You Know They Got a Hell of a Band (Stephen King)
Zathura (Allsburg)


Next Category: Great historical figures (well-known, in other words...if they're in history books, they're game)


Alexander the Great

[Cicatrix]

Benito Mussolini

[le Duc]

Charles I (your choice)

[Andrew Popovici]

Leonardo Da Vinci

[notoppings]

Eisenhower Dwight D.

[Andrew Popovici]

Benjamin Franklin

[Cicatrix]

Geronimo

[PortInStorm]

Herodetus

[Nikita]

Isabella I of Castile

[PortInStorm]

Jack-of-all-Trades.


What? Come on, we all know him.....

[Nikita]

Jack-of-all-Trades.


What? Come on, we all know him.....

lol you can do better than that

[Andrew Popovici]

King John

[luna]

Louis XVI

[Nikita]

Magellan, Ferdinand

[Andrew Popovici]

Nietzsche, Friedrich

[Nikita]

Odin

[Andrew Popovici]

Vladimir Putin

[Nikita]

Quetzalcōhuātl

[Andrew Popovici]

nice :) Do I detect Spell Check?

but anyway: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[notoppings]

Socrates.

[Andrew Popovici]

Harry S. Truman (Did you know he didn't really have a middle name? Cool!)

[Nikita]

Ulysses S. Grant

[notoppings]

Vlad the Impaler. Just kidding. Martin Van Buren.

[Nikita]

Winston Churchill


<banging head against wall> ok, I really want to use my X guy, he's the whole reason I chose this category:


Xerxes

[Andrew Popovici]

Mao Zedong

Whoo! New Catagory: games (board, sports, video, computer, etc.)

Air Hockey

[PortInStorm]

Boggle

Better? ;)

[Nikita]

Mao Zedong

Whoo! New Catagory: games (board, sports, video, computer, etc.)

Air Hockey

Wait, what happened to Y? ok I'll add it just for the sake of completion: York (a slave in the Lewis and Clark expedition)


Chess

[Andrew Popovici]

Oh yeah.. the letter y... oops. Padron me for my radnom bouts of Sydlexia. :surprised:

Dodgeball!

[PortInStorm]

Equestrianism

[Andrew Popovici]

Foosball, even though "Foosball is the devil!" (The Waterboy)

[PortInStorm]

Guess Who

[Nikita]

Hide and Seek!!!!!! (my favorite, lol)

[LionsPride]

I spy, with my little eye, something that is...

[Nikita]

Jump Rope

[notoppings]

keno

[theJarrett]

Lacrosse! Larceny! Lampooning! Limbo! Lemmings!

[notoppings]

Monopoly.

[Nikita]

Nintendo

[Cicatrix]

Oddworld - Abes Oddysee

*work work*

*shhhhh*

*hehe... that tickles*

[Andrew Popovici]

Pacman! C< . . . . . . .

[rewhu]

Red Rover, Red Rover

[notoppings]

Soccer.

[rewhu]

Tic Tac Toe

[notoppings]

Uno.

[PortInStorm]

Volleyball

[le Duc]

Whist

[Nikita]

X-Box!

[notoppings]

Zelda.

New topic: Cities.

Atlanta.

[aok]

Burlington

[Nikita]

Zelda.

New topic: Cities.

Atlanta.

Quit skipping Y! lol Yo-freaking-Yo

Cairo

[Andrew Popovici]

Denver

[PortInStorm]

Quit skipping B! :p

Belfast...

[Andrew Popovici]

Ok, this is getting confusing now...

Edinburgh

[aok]

Fargo

[notoppings]

Quit skipping Y! lol Yo-freaking-Yo

Cairo
Opps. I thought there was a y, so sorry.

George Town.

[Nikita]

Quit skipping B! :p

Belfast...

I didn't:

Burlington

That was above my Cairo. :speechless:

notoppings - lol it's ok, it just happened twice in a row so I jumped on it



Halifax

[notoppings]

Indianapolis.

[Nikita]

Jakarta

[Cicatrix]

Kuala Lumpur

Does this qualify as both K and L?

[le Duc]

Minas Tirith

[rewhu]

Great answer le Duc.

Nuremberg

[PortInStorm]

I didn't:



That was above my Cairo. :speechless:


Oops, sorry, I'm obviously having a "day" :dozey: I'm sensing some Canadian representation here woohoo!

Oakville, ON, Canada

[le Duc]

Portsmouth. Your choice of location.

[PortInStorm]

Quinte West, ON, CA

Sorry.... had to.

[aok]

Reno

[PortInStorm]

St. Catharines

[le Duc]

Timbuktu

[rewhu]

Utica






What in the hell is wrong with me today?

[PortInStorm]

Victoria, B.C.

[le Duc]

Westhaven...

[rewhu]

Xian

[PortInStorm]

Zanzibar City

Next, colours

Aqua

[rewhu]

You skipped Y. No worries. Yonkers, NY.

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Beige

[le Duc]

Chartreuse

[PortInStorm]

What's wrong with me?! :mad:

Dusty Rose *shudder*

[Nikita]

Ecru

(I didn't have to be the bad guy for once, yay! thanks, rewhu :) lol it's ok Port)

[Andrew Popovici]

Fluorescent Green? :/

[PortInStorm]

Ecru



I was itching to do that one, lol.

Grey

[Andrew Popovici]

Hazel

[le Duc]

Indigo

[Andrew Popovici]

Jade

[Deepdelver]

Khaki

[Andrew Popovici]

Lavender

[Airius]

Mauve.

[Andrew Popovici]

Negro. (I don't mean anything by that. I assume ya'll INTJs are smart enough to realize it's Spanish for black)

[PortInStorm]

Orange. boring, I know.

[Nikita]

Puce <vomit>

[Cicatrix]

Quince

[aok]

Royal Blue

[Deepdelver]

Sapphire. (My favorite.)

[rewhu]

Tangerine

[le Duc]

Ultraviolet? :)

[Deepdelver]

Violet.

[PortInStorm]

Wine

[le Duc]

X11

[PortInStorm]

Yeller.... urm, I mean yellow.

*goes back to sobbing and watching end of the Ol' Yeller"

[Deepdelver]

Zinc white.

[PortInStorm]

Ok, we seem to have stalled out here. Next category...

Plants/trees, whatever.

Amur Maple

[Nikita]

Birch

[PortInStorm]

Creeping Charlie, lol!

[Nikita]

Dandelion

[PortInStorm]

Echinacea

[Nikita]

Fox Glove

[PortInStorm]

Goatsbeard

[rwyatt365]

Hollyhock

[PortInStorm]

Iris

[rwyatt365]

Juniper

[PortInStorm]

Kalmia - Mountain Laurel

[le Duc]

Lavender

[PortInStorm]

Metasequoia glyptostroboides- love this one! Dawn Redwood. It's the one I always said to impress people when I was in hort school.

[le Duc]

Never knew that.

Now I do.

Nettle.

[PortInStorm]

Osage Orange

[le Duc]

Petunia

[PortInStorm]

Quince

[Wapiti]

Redwood

[Nikita]

Sequoia

[PortInStorm]

Tulip Tree

[Nikita]

Ugni (that required too much thought, lol - it's in the myrtle family)

[PortInStorm]

Very nice!

Verbena

[Wapiti]

Willow

[PortInStorm]

OK, you ready for this? I had to look this one up in the reference...

Xanthoceras sorbifolium- a tree called Yellowhorn.

[Nikita]

nice!

Yucca

[idem]

Zinnia.
Now we need a new topic...

[PortInStorm]

Anyone got a preference?

[Wapiti]

How about Prescriptions/Medications.

Arimidex

[Kathryn]

Barbiturates