Analogies #5

Can you fill the blanks in these analogies?
Two questions courtesy of MrMiyaga
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Last updated: December 19, 2020
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First submittedMarch 6, 2013
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Calf is to Cow
Kitten is to Cat
Peace is to War
Night is to Day
Pesto is to Basil
Hummus is to Chickpea
Neil Harris is to Patrick
Phillip Hoffman is to Seymour
Mega is to Million
Giga is to Billion
Ultimate is to Last
Penultimate is to Next to Last
Bank is to Money
Library is to Books
Bridesmaid is to
Maid of Honor
Groomsman is to Best Man
Sinophile is to China
Anglophile is to England
Tea is to Leaf
Coffee is to Bean
Strong is to Ox
Sly is to Fox
High is to Low
Deep is to Shallow
Scene is to Play
Chapter is to Book
2 is to nd
11 is to th
Mascara is to Eyelashes
Nylons are to Legs
Ambrosia is to Food
Nectar is to Drink
München is to Munich
Köln is to Cologne
Tennis is to Racket
Croquet is to Mallet
Two is to Secondary
Three is to Tertiary
LAX is to Los Angeles
CDG is to Paris
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Level 56
May 1, 2013
I enjoyed this thanks!
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Level 82
May 4, 2013
If anyone thought this quiz was too easy, I made one that is significantly more challenging. You can find it under my quizzes titled "Very Tricky Analogies." Feel free to comment on it, as I never get on anyone's case for expressing their opinions. Holding someone accountable for their opinions... or expressing a different contrary opinion... that's obviously different.
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Level 69
Jul 18, 2016
I did find this very easy...I'm off to take yours!
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Level 59
Aug 19, 2013
"peace is to war as night is to day" sad but true and almost poetic at the same time
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Level 15
May 22, 2014
Too funny. I just read about the ambrosia and nectar connection with Greek mythology yesterday, and here it appears. Strange how that happens!
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Level 45
Jun 16, 2014
I LOVE penultimate!
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Level 62
Aug 8, 2020
Did anyone else try semifinal for penultimate?
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Level 45
Jun 16, 2014
I'm surprised that more people get penultimate than nectar. Does that mean A Series of Unfortunate Events is more popular than Percy Jackson?
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Level 82
Nov 12, 2014
I read one of the ASoUE books with my girlfriend's 8 year old daughter once and found it very well-written and enjoyable (much moreso than Harry Potter or Percy Jackson)... but I knew the definition of penultimate long before that. Penultimate is a word that can be used in a lot of different situations whereas ambrosia is specifically in the domain of a particular mythology. I imagine that's why fewer people know it.
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Level 85
Jun 13, 2021
ASoUE is far better written than Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. Although PJ at least introduces children to Greek myths and legends.
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Level 75
Nov 12, 2014
I learned penultimate from reading Regency romances.
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Level 70
Nov 12, 2014
I don't know what either of those things are.
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Level 63
Oct 28, 2016
I learned it from a band teacher who loved the word. We would play a "penultimate" piece during practice at least three times a year.
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Level 66
Sep 13, 2020
Penultimate is common knowledge, definitely not specific to ASoUE. I have never heard of the ambrosia/nectar one.
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Level 82
Dec 19, 2020
Ambrosia and nectar are from Greek mythology, not specific top some books either. But yeah less likely to be used in the original sense.
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Level 59
Nov 12, 2014
Anyone else try "bega" for billions? No? Just me? Alrighty.
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Level 88
Nov 12, 2014
No, but I did try Tera which is billion on the metric long scale. Also, In my opinion, a scene would be more like a page than a chapter. An act would be analogous to a chapter.
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Level 77
Feb 22, 2020
loganite, I agree with you. The French coined the word "billion" first and it meant a million squared. It was later adopted by the British too. Subsequently the Americans used it to mean a thousand million (just to be different, I presume). Later still the French capitulated and so more recently did the BBC. I didn't. So to me a billion means what it originally meant - a million squared. Thus, to me "Tera" is the right answer. Will you accept it?
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Level ∞
Feb 23, 2020
No we won't accept it. The short scale has been official in the United Kingdom since 1974. It's time to move on.
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Level 82
Dec 19, 2020
Yeah it's an English language quiz, though the French (along with most of European languages) certainly didn't "capitulate"
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Level 70
Jun 13, 2021
Language is fluid and always evolving whether we like it or not. If you insist on using an archaic definition of a word that has since come to mean something else, you're the one using the word incorrectly.
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Level 76
Jun 14, 2021
Except, if you allowed your navel gazing muricanism to rest for a bit, you would realize that many other countries still use that "archaic" form. And the fact that Quizmaster wouldn't accept that but accepts some horrendous mispellings of names, should illustrate quite a bit what the bottom line is (hint: it's not about accuracy). Just like in every other instance of "the US does it one way, most of the world does it differently". But muricans will murican.
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Level 45
Nov 29, 2014
You can't accept 'Flamingo' for 'Mallet'?
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Level 44
Mar 14, 2017
Haha!
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Level 80
Apr 28, 2016
Who is Philip Hoffman? Never heard of him. But then, he's probably never heard of me either...
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Level 71
Dec 26, 2016
A brilliant and much loved actor who is sadly no longer with us.
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Level 75
Mar 14, 2017
He had an extensive filmography including The Hunger Games series, The Big Lebowski, Patch Adams, The Talented Mr. Ripley - and he won an Oscar for portraying Truman Capote.
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Level 79
Dec 20, 2020
I've heard of him, but have never heard his middle name before. Ditto Neil Harris.
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Level 68
Jun 13, 2021
I find this hard to believe.

No one ever mentions them without their middle name. EVER!!

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Level 76
Jun 13, 2021
Yeah, both of them are always billed with the full three names: Neil Patrick Harris and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Level 65
Aug 10, 2023
Tommy Lee Jones
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Level 58
Nov 25, 2016
Wish I could spell tertiary (instead of terciary). Would have got 'em all.
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Level 65
Aug 10, 2023
Just discussed the word for Four, Five and Six, etc yesterday
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Level 38
Dec 26, 2016
Good Quiz: didn't know hummus was made from chick peas!
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Level 66
Mar 14, 2017
Chickpea = garbonzo, eh?
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Level 75
Mar 14, 2017
I started to type garbanzo beans then realized there was only one blank, so it had to be chickpeas and yes, they are the same thing.
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Level 77
Jun 19, 2020
I have heard that there's a difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea... but I don't think it's jetpunk appropriate.
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Level 72
May 30, 2022
I thought this was a poor clue, basil is a herb, basically for flavour. the analogous constituent of hummous should surely be garlic, or possibly lemon juice.
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Level 44
Mar 14, 2017
I thought the answer to the geico thing was lizard! Facepalm
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Level 69
Mar 14, 2017
Great quiz! I liked how ox and fox rhymed!
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Level 67
Mar 14, 2017
I get what you're going for with the library and the bank, and it's pretty obvious what the answer is, but I don't think they're really the same thing. Cause you know, you can't exactly check out all the money you want from a bank with a membership to the bank.
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Level 82
Dec 19, 2020
Well you can't check out all the books either, and they are to be returned in any case
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Level 84
Dec 21, 2020
You are more accurately "borrowing" from the library, so the analogy is actually pretty close to a bank.
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Level 76
Mar 15, 2021
All it is is that you can find/get money in a bank, as you can find/get books in a library. Don't overthink it.
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Level 28
Mar 15, 2017
how come a lot didnt get the mega giga? i think it is the easiest...
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Level 82
Jun 21, 2017
I didn't get it and I'm really, really smart (in my own mind)
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Level 64
Jul 6, 2021
I tried zillion and gazillion. All silly numbers
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Level 49
Feb 9, 2024
I tried bega because I couldn’t think of anything.
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Level 54
May 25, 2017
Say secondary, tertiary in a Jamaican accent :D
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Level 63
May 25, 2017
Why can't it be Kitty is to Cat?
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Level 82
Dec 19, 2020
Kitty can be any cat, not just the offspring
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Level 70
Jun 13, 2021
Kitty is a generic, cutesy word for cats. Whereas a kitten is young cat in the same way a calf is a young cow.
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Level 39
Jun 14, 2021
This was an interesting one, sadly I got stuck on the ambrosia one, about which I had literally no idea. All I could think of was that Ambrosia is a popular brand of custard in the UK. That didn't help very much....
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Level 83
Sep 27, 2021
Here I was thinking that Mega and Millions were referring to the lottery in the US, and was trying to rack my brain for a lottery program that paid out a billion...