Analogies #1

Can you fill the blanks in these analogies?

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First submitted	February 26, 2012
Times taken	72,138
Average score	60.0%
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This is to This	As...
Sheqel is to Israel	Yen is to Japan
Koala is to Eucalyptus	Giant Panda is to Bamboo
Kit is to Fox	Joey is to Kangaroo
Eiffel Tower is to Paris	Space Needle is to Seattle
Dr. Evil is to Austin Powers	Professor Moriarty is to Sherlock Holmes
Bruce Wayne is to Batman	Peter Parker is to Spiderman
Saddam Hussein is to Iraq	Muammar Gaddafi is to Libya
Achilles is to Greece	Hector is to Troy
Romeo is to Montague	Juliet is to Capulet
Cents are to Dollar	Pence are to Pound

This is to This	As...
Las Vegas is to U.S.	Macau is to China
8 is to Octagon	5 is to Pentagon
Sol is to Sun	Terra is to Earth
Kicked is to Bucket	Bought is to Farm
Hoover is to Vacuum	Xerox is to Copier
Lake is to England	Loch is to Scotland
Tolstoy is to War	Dostoyevsky is to Crime
Genesis is to Old	Matthew is to New
Goomba is to Mushroom	Koopa is to Turtle
Friday is to Good	Wednesday is to Ash

Level 37

Feb 16, 2012

This was an interesting one QM, well done!

Level 45

Jun 16, 2014

Totally!

+12

Level 20

Feb 16, 2012

that was hard...

Level 82

Oct 9, 2016

that was easy

+18

Level 79

Jun 26, 2019

for you

Level 82

Mar 21, 2021

which goes without saying. But you felt the need to say it anyway.

Level 78

Mar 21, 2021

well 7 other people thought it was a good thing to say so maybe he did need to say it

Level 43

Mar 25, 2021

No need to be a snob

Level 26

Mar 25, 2021

Look at me I'm so smart

Level 89

Mar 28, 2021

There's no need for you guys to be whining either.

Level 78

Mar 21, 2021

that was 18/20 hard and 2/20 easy

Level 77

Feb 16, 2012

Great Quiz, let's see more of these

Level 64

Feb 26, 2012

This one was awesome.

Level 20

Oct 24, 2012

Wow, I should have known pentagon.. that was bad.

Level 36

Sep 4, 2014

Don't worry. I typed hexagon a few times before realizing what the hell I was doing.

Level 59

Sep 4, 2014

You should also accept 'tierra' for 'terra'. Tierra is earth in spanish just as sol is sun.

Level 88

Sep 4, 2014

I agree, I tried Tierra and mundo thinking you were going for the Spanish-English analogy.

Level 35

Sep 4, 2014

Mundo was all I could come up with ... dang

Level ∞

Sep 4, 2014

Tierra will work now.

Level 67

Dec 19, 2020

And then you should also accept Jord.

Level 82

Sep 4, 2014

too easy

Level 84

Sep 4, 2014

Really good one, QM!

Level 55

Sep 4, 2014

For the China's Las Vegas one, Thank you CGP Grey on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEayQ0T-qA

Level 82

Sep 5, 2014

If you ever go there the similarities are inescapable.

Level 87

Dec 19, 2020

The main similarity being, in both places you almost never hear anyone speaking Portuguese.

Level 82

Mar 21, 2021

You can find some great Portuguese-inspired bakeries in the Chinese one, though.

Level 44

Sep 5, 2014

It's the only one I missed. I had no idea!

Level 68

Sep 6, 2014

Same here! Loved the kicked:bucket and bought:farm one.

Level 33

Sep 5, 2014

I tried Sam Toucan, but to no avail. :(

Level 60

Sep 6, 2014

Sorry, don't understand "bought, farm" could someone enlighten me? Thank you.

Level 57

Sep 6, 2014

Bought the farm & kicked the bucket are both slang expressions for DIED.

Level 76

Aug 20, 2016

In Britain, we say 'bought a bullet' - I never heard 'bought a farm' before. Good quiz though, thanks.

Level 65

Oct 9, 2016

I thought it was "bite the bullet"?

Level 67

Dec 16, 2018

I heard of kicking the bucket so I was trying to think of expression with bought, that meant the same thing, but couldnt think of any. Never heard of it before.

Half right I guess ;)

Level 85

Dec 19, 2020

@svitapeneela: 'Bite the bullet' is a common expression (in the US at least) but it doesn't imply dying - it refers to suffering through a painful or unpleasant situation.

Level 44

Mar 21, 2021

I thought it was bite the dust

Level 67

Mar 23, 2021

"Bought the farm" dates back to WW I, iirc, when, if a soldier was killed, the survivors' benefit paid by the government was often used to pay off the mortgage of the farm back home.

Level 71

Sep 8, 2014

This was a bit different, and a lot of fun. Thanks QM

Level 25

Nov 11, 2014

I can't be the only person who put horse for Troy... right?

Level 65

Jun 17, 2015

I tried Helen to no avail.

Level 30

Mar 3, 2015

AHHH man, I put ter and tet for the _____is to earth one because I thought you wanted only three letters because sol is to sun.

Level 22

Oct 9, 2016

I was wondering why Canon wasn't working. Turns out it's in the wrong country.

Level 65

Oct 9, 2016

I tried Lancing. Oops.

Level 75

Oct 9, 2016

Nothing to do with this quiz, but I'm wondering why my point total dropped by three from yesterday. I don't usually pay attention to that, but I did yesterday. Does this happen to others?

Level 85

Dec 19, 2020

Yes. When a quiz gets reset, you lose whatever points you earned from it.

Level 60

Oct 10, 2016

Never heard of bought the farm either,will try it out on some friends.

Level 46

Dec 16, 2019

Nice quiz.

Level 30

Oct 14, 2020

Got it a one second left.

+11

Level 84

Dec 20, 2020

These are good overall, but this one is not an analogy: Tolstoy is to Dostoyevsky as War is to Crime. They are not the same relationship (famous Russion authors/Famous books)

It should be Tolstoy is to War as Dostoyevsky as is to Crime. (First words of their famous novels).

Level ∞

Dec 20, 2020

I can see from the upvotes that people prefer your version better so I changed it to that.

Level 84

Dec 22, 2020

Thanks. I used to teach analogies back when they were on the SAT. The rule of thumb - make a sentence, then use the same words to make a sentence with the other set. That's one way to discover the analogy. I've done about 9 of these so far - good stuff.

Level 79

Dec 20, 2020

Tried Aeneas is to Troy, but was denied.

Level 71

Mar 21, 2021

aeneas is, objectively, not the greatest hero of troy. achilles is known as greece's greatest hero, and hector fills that role in troy while aeneas fled the fighting to sail for italy

Level 89

Dec 26, 2020

Koopa is to Turtle made me smile

Level 76

Mar 21, 2021

If you accept tierra for terra because of Spanish, I'd recommend accepting mundo too because mundo also means earth. It's what I tried first lol.

Level 71

Mar 21, 2021

No, mundo means world.

Level 74

Mar 21, 2021

I really liked the ones which were a bit out of the box like "Romeo is to Montague", "Genesis is to Old" and most of all "Tolstoy is to War"

Level 71

Mar 21, 2021

Very good quiz, though I hope you don't mind me saying so, a bit on the hard side for non-US residents. But great nonetheless! I hope this is constructive.

Level 67

Mar 22, 2021

Goombas are actually designed after chestnuts, not mushrooms! Great quiz otherwise :)

Level 68

Mar 22, 2021

Had no idea who Professor Moriarty was, but I got the others.

Level 64

Sep 4, 2021

I had no idea who Doctor Evil was, just that Moriarty was Sherlock Holmes. Different sides of the same pond 😊

Level 67

May 25, 2021

Come on more respect for Mario smh

Level 63

Apr 26, 2023

I'm intentionally being a little adversarial here, but you should accept Miles Morales as well as Peter Parker.

Level 67

Apr 19, 2024

I like the Mario one between the two Bible ones

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