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Groups of Nine Quiz

Name the members of these famous ninesomes.
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Last updated: August 30, 2015
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First submittedJune 29, 2011
Times taken110,529
Average score61.7%
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Santa's Reindeer
Dancer
Dasher
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Donner
Blitzen
Rudolph
 
Baseball Positions
Pitcher
Catcher
First Baseman
Second Baseman
Shortstop
Third Baseman
Left Fielder
Center Fielder
Right Fielder
 
Brady Bunch Characters
Alice
Bobby
Carol
Cindy
Greg
Jan
Marcia
Mike
Peter
Countries on the Baltic Sea
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Sweden
 
Fellowship of the Ring
Aragorn
Boromir
Frodo
Gandalf
Gimli
Legolas
Merry
Pippin
Samwise
 
Countries with Nuclear Weapons
China
France
India
Israel
North Korea
Pakistan
Russia
United Kingdom
United States
Planets (before 2006)
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
 
Poker Hands
High Card
One Pair
Two Pair
Three of a Kind
Straight
Flush
Full House
Four of a Kind
Straight Flush
 
Names of English Kings (1066-present)
William
Henry
Stephen
Richard
John
Edward
James
Charles
George
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Level 55
Aug 30, 2014
For the baseball positions I tried "Who" "What" "I Don't Know"... it's the only thing I know about baseball.
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Level 71
Aug 31, 2014
Who's on first?
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Level 80
Oct 6, 2014
Yes
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Level 55
Dec 15, 2014
I don't know....
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Level 77
Mar 4, 2015
What?
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Level 22
Jun 11, 2016
Larry, I don't know's on third.
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Level 66
Feb 24, 2022
No Lucky, What's on second!
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Level 65
Aug 30, 2014
nice quiz but how about accepting "High" And "Run" "Running Flush" for us Brits?
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Level 70
Jan 14, 2024
never heard 'running flush' in Britain.
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Level 75
Aug 30, 2014
I tried single high and ace-high, but no high card. Somehow missed Sweden, too. :(
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Level 66
Feb 24, 2022
Sweden's not a hand in Poker!
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Level 70
Jan 14, 2024
I thought it should be ace high.
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Level 74
Sep 3, 2014
Harold Godwinson was also king of England in 1066.
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Level 55
Dec 15, 2014
When the question says "since 1066" it means after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings and became King. The reason for this is that the modern kings' names and numberings begin from then, and not before then, even if the year was 1066. (So that Edward the Confessor, for example, is not one of the numbered Edwards I-VI, who began two centuries later).
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Level 84
Apr 20, 2016
So, what it says and what it means are two different things... Perhaps a revision such as "after Hastings" or after Norman Conquest" could be entered, without giving away any of the answers.
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Level 71
Mar 2, 2018
I tried Harold and I think there is a fair argument on his behalf in this quiz.
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Level 88
Aug 10, 2018
Don't be dumb. If you knew enough to get the answers, you know #@&% well what 1066 is all about. Don't be so inane to think we all don't. Time waster.
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Level 66
May 23, 2020
wow, really? ... You can perfectly well know the names of kings without knowing what they or their country have been up to.
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Level 83
Aug 28, 2022
LarryLovage, I think you meant Edwards I-VIII.
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Level 54
Nov 6, 2014
easily swept the first four and got most of the last 2, but somehow missed George and charles
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Level 55
Dec 15, 2014
God, let this one be. At least there's no problem with this one like when you're asked "Who came before Queen Elizabeth" and it accepts George. There were several of them!! It matters!
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Level 88
Aug 10, 2018
Only to English people. At least the ones who like supporting a mega wealthy welfare family that is.
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2019
Seriously... what's with the attitude!! Ofcourse it matters, just as it matters that there were 2 historic figures by the name napoleon and also more than one important khan.

do i pérsonally care if the numbers are added in the quiz, not really. But they are just as important as any other figure in history and deserve the right not to be lumped into one.

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Level 55
Dec 15, 2014
Doesn't it go, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Flixton, Urmston...?
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Level 57
Aug 8, 2015
You must be a fellow Lankie!
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Level 71
Mar 2, 2018
Followed by Wigan, Oldham, Bury and Preston!
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Level 55
Dec 15, 2014
When the answers are filled in, the Fellowship of the Ring have their baseball positions to their left.
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Level 52
Jan 20, 2017
Gimli is SHORTstop, how fitting
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Level 81
Nov 20, 2018
He would probably be the catcher though. Legolas would surely be SS or CF. But the pun is nice.
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Level 81
Nov 20, 2018
My lineup -

Gandalf as Pitcher. (Nasty curve ball).

Gimli as Catcher.

Frodo 1B.

Merry 2B.

Pippin SS.

Aragorn 3B (Can handle the hot corner).

Boromir RF (Great arm).

Legolas CF (He's everywhere).

Samwise LF (Best place to hide him).

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Level 72
May 4, 2015
I find it difficult to believe that 100% of the test takers did not get "earth" as one of the planets.
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2019
Some people are egocentric, the universe revolves around thém.
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Level 63
May 8, 2015
2 pairs accepted for Two Pairs
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Level 72
Jun 10, 2015
So unforgiving with Gimli - Tried gimly, gimley, gimlee before I remembered the correct spelling. Same could apply to many of the other LOTR names.
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2019
Gimly seems fair, the others not really imo. Also Aragon instead of Aragorn. Other than that I cant see any major difficulties. (Ok maybe with merry)
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Level 21
Jun 21, 2015
iran should be under for nuclear weapons or whatever. Did they just cut it out so they'd have nine instead of the accurate ten in that group? That's just wrong.
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Level 51
Jul 18, 2015
To the best of current knowledge, Iran does not have nuclear weapons.
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Level 77
Aug 8, 2015
Missed: 2 reindeer, 1 king and the whole Brady Bunch.
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Level 68
Sep 18, 2016
That is nothing to be ashamed of.
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Level 66
May 23, 2020
Missed all the brady's and half the baseball team.
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Level 65
Sep 2, 2015
Tom Brady?
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Level 58
Sep 23, 2015
Horrible Histories song really helps with the monarchs! William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John, Oi! :)
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Level 83
Dec 7, 2015
Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich 2, then three more Henrys join our song.
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Level 55
Aug 23, 2023
Edward, Edward, Rich the 3rd
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Level 58
Sep 23, 2015
Only 97% got Earth. I wonder what planet they live on!
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2019
Earth

* the others planets don't have internet acces

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Level 79
Apr 20, 2016
Bothers me that all reindeer are in song order except for the first two.
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Level 68
Sep 18, 2016
I must admit, that threw me a bit!
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2019
We dont have a song about reindeers here, but i do know the rudolph song.
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Level 36
Jun 28, 2016
You don't accept Ace High for High Card?
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Level 76
Aug 8, 2018
No, for the same reason it doesn't accept "three sevens" for "three of a kind." It's just one of the possible values of that hand. If no one has an ace, then the high card might be, say, a king.
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Level 58
Aug 22, 2016
I tried Michael a bunch of times before finally typing Mike.
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Level 82
Aug 26, 2016
Did pretty well generally (surprised myself with the reindeer, only missed one), but I only new one in the baseball and Brady Bunch categories.
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Level 67
Dec 20, 2016
I completely forgot about Rudolph! I'd just done the quiz of the song and tried to name all of the other reindeer.
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Level 72
Dec 31, 2016
Baseball!? A sport barely played outside of North America and one that most Europeans know absolutely nothing about and never hear even a passing mention of in the news. Fantastic.
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Level 84
Mar 11, 2017
Barely played outside North America????

Did you know that it's the most played sport in Japan? That there's a lot of baseball fever in South Korea and Taiwan? That Venezuela (a country that by no means is on North America) is perhaps the country that provides the most foreign players to the MLB?

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Level 71
Mar 2, 2018
Well, that's most of the people doing this quiz then.
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Level 88
Aug 10, 2018
Don't go to an American website and complain. Should ditch the 9 names of useless kings section first.
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2019
What got stuck up your a$$?...
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Level 73
Jul 4, 2023
I’m sure the average American could name more English kings (probably 3) than Europeans could name baseball positions (probably just pitcher)
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Level 78
Jan 28, 2020
Something is only relevant if Europeans know about it. We are the center (sorry, centre) of the world.
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Level 87
Feb 14, 2021
This whole quiz is too Anglo Saxon-centric - baseball, Brady’s, English monarchs, Santa’s reindeers...

How about us Israeli Jews?? (But still, I knew Marcia..)

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Level 52
Jan 21, 2017
Not American so had nothing for Baseball positions, or had ever heard of Brady Bunch.
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Level 68
Feb 14, 2017
We play softball here in New Zealand, and the positions are the same as baseball, so all good. Brady Bunch was on TV here many years ago - you need to be pretty old to have heard of it!
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Level 61
Jan 21, 2017
I am seriously concerned for the three percent that missed Earth.
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Level 60
Feb 15, 2017
Thank you, Horrible Histories! William, Henry, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John: HEY!
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Level 51
Apr 13, 2017
I always thought it was Arrogant, Boringmir, Fraudo, Gandoffacliff, Grimly, Lego-less, Marry, Pipsqueak, and Samunwise.
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Level 43
Apr 18, 2017
Went through seven categories with no problems. Then, I got 2 of the Brady Bunch while trying to guess Kings of England (all of which I eventually got, thank goodness).
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Level 84
Jul 24, 2017
Was hoping against all hope that simply typing in "that one weird guy", all of the answers for the LOTRs section would be filled in. Sadly, not the case. Only 9 that I missed. :-(
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Level 57
Nov 28, 2023
I'm about 6 years late but this made me laugh because I also missed all 9 of them
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Level 55
Oct 5, 2017
How do more people get Mars than Earth...
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Level 83
Jun 20, 2018
Maybe they, like me for some reason, use Holst's Planet Suite to remember the planets.
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Level 81
Nov 20, 2018
So by that logic you missed Pluto as well? And you also don't know the Earth is a planet?
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Level 83
Mar 13, 2024
No, I just thought of Mars first.
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Level 66
May 23, 2020
So because he knows a musical piece, he as a consequence must not know earth is a planet? now that is some weird logic right there @Walcama

You must be right, every person that missed earth as an answer does not know it is a planet..

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Level 83
Jun 20, 2018
My brain went weird while I was trying to remember the reindeer, it said something like "Dasher, Dancer, Donner, Blitzen, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta".
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Level 86
Aug 30, 2018
Why is Royal Sampler not accepted?
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Level 16
Nov 1, 2018
as a Brit I was always gonna struggle with baseball and the brady bunch!
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Level 35
Nov 20, 2018
Funny quiz in that there will be almost no overlap between people that can name all 9 characters in the brady bunch and all 9 members of the fellowship of the ring. I certainly only got one of the Brady Bunch after just guessing names, as the last episode aired some 25 years before I was born!
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Level 76
Nov 20, 2018
Why wouldn't there be overlap? People can like both high fantasy and silly sitcoms at the same time. And LotR has been around for more than 60 years, so it's certainly not any sort of an age issue.
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Level 48
Apr 4, 2019
I guess if you aren't a certain age and American, you wouldn't know the Brady Bunch as well as me since it was on every single day after school (2 episodes in a row).
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Level 67
Jun 4, 2019
Got all Baltic countries, all planets, and all nuclear powers.
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Level 43
Jan 29, 2020
Here's the story, of a man named Brady....
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Level 36
May 23, 2020
Didn't know North Korea had a nuclear weapon.
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Level 69
May 27, 2020
I would like to speak with the 3% of people who couldn't name Earth as one of the nine planets. I'm hoping English isn't their first language
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Level 62
Jun 19, 2020
shouldn't dasher come before dancer?
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Level 78
Jul 13, 2020
I tried Liam Brady, Karen Brady, Ian Brady and Mrs Brady Old Lady. Apparently none of them is valid.
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Level 57
Jul 14, 2020
dprk should be accepted for North Korea unless I spelled it wrong
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Level 72
Oct 6, 2020
I got right fielder by a total accident. I wanted to type flush, but I had a left-over r in the answer box, so it automatically showed right fielder. Then I tried left and central fielder as well as the bases and for my surprise and delight it worked out as well. In the end I got all but shortstop instead of the only two I actually knew: pitcher and catcher.
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Level 69
Nov 12, 2020
Suggestion - 9 Provinces of South Africa?
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Level 80
Jan 30, 2021
It's 2021, why is there still a Brady bunch question in this quiz? Very hard for non americans and non elderly people haha.
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Level 49
Feb 20, 2021
Out of all the kings I missed James and Charles.

0_0

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Level 43
Sep 1, 2021
hey sisters
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Level 32
May 12, 2021
King Louis was king of england in 1216. I spent about a minute trying to spell this correctly
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Level 85
Aug 5, 2021
2 pair should be accepted for two pair
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Level 83
Oct 17, 2021
Just to be pedantic about the orders for the sake of doing so - if using the numbering system used to score baseball games, 3B (5) would come before SS (6).

Also I'm curious - what is the order of the reindeer? Is it related to their positions when they're in flying formation?

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Level 70
Jan 31, 2022
DPRK does not count for North Korea in the quiz btw
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Level 56
Apr 11, 2023
Please accept DPRK for North Korea and PRC for China. I missed both because I didn't realize that it wasn't accepted.
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Level 73
Jul 4, 2023
Baseball was tough because I’m not American but you could get a few by guessing, but who the hell are the Brady Bunch? I feel like that’s an instant 0/9 for pretty much all non-Americans
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Level 61
Jul 14, 2023
DPRK should work for North Korea
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Level 74
Dec 19, 2023
...Really? Brady Bunch characters?
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Level 55
Mar 10, 2024
3 of a kind is commonly called a set, and 4 of a kind is often called quads