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You will see 5 words, names or phrases.
4 will have something in common, but not the 5th.
Draw on your general knowledge and pattern recognition ability to spot the one that doesn't belong.
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chemical elements
calcium, copper, carbon, chlorine, gold, helium, iodine, iron, krypton, lead, lithium, neon, nitrogen, oxygen, platinum, potassium, silicon, silver, sodium, tin, titanium
acid, basalt, brass, creatine, cytosine, glass, kryptonite, niacin, peroxide, salt, steel, water
nouns
apple, bear, cat, door, egg, flower, garment, jacket, key, leg, moon, predator, robot, shoe, window, year, zoo
after, blue, her, quickly, red, sing, sit, thin, under, windy, young
two-dimensional geometric shapes
circle, ellipse, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, pentagon, rectangle, square, trapezoid, triangle
cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, tetrahedron
world capitals
Berlin, Bern, Brussels, Canberra, Damascus, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Kabul, Manila, Minsk, Ottawa, Phnom Penh, Tokyo, Vienna, Zagreb
Calcutta, Hong Kong, Marrakesh, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Suriname, Toronto, Zambia
United Nations Secretaries General
Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan
Wangari Maathai, Hosni Mubarak, Linus Pauling, Lester Pearson, Anwar Sadat, Desmond Tutu
muscles of the human body
biceps, calf, deltoids, gluteus maximus, hamstrings, latissimus dorsi, pectorals, quadriceps, trapezius, triceps
bilateral, circus maximus, forceps, pectin, quadrant, trapezoid, visceral
carbs (carbohydrate-rich foods)
apples, bread, broccoli, cauliflower, cereal, grape juice, honey, kidney beans, oranges, pasta, rice, sugar, watermelon
beef, chicken, cheese, eggs, fish, lobster, margarine, pork, salmon, turkey
planets of our solar system
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
Juno, Moon, Sun, Orion, Sirius, Titan, Zeus
great rivers
Amazon, Amur, Congo, Indus, Jordan, Mississippi, Nile, Orinoco, Volga, Yangtze, Zambezi
Baikal, Caspian, Gabon, Huron, Lagos, Victoria
gemstones
amethyst, aquamarine, citrine, emerald, garnet, opal, peridot, ruby, sapphire, tourmaline
adenine, arkenstone, beryllium, cytosine, lignite, marquis, peregrine, purine
musical instruments
bagpipes, cello, drums, flute, glockenspiel, guitar, harmonica, marimba, piccolo, recorder, sitar, trumpet, viola
dragoon, mitre, octahedron, peridot, rasp, samba, trapezius
words that start with B
bad, bagpipes, bare, bear, beef, benign, beryllium, biceps, bilateral, binary, blue, bread, brisk, broccoli, butterfly
good, ladybug, pork, spider, sugar, triceps
words that rhyme
air, aware, bare, beware, chair, heir, millionaire, pear, prayer, repair, square, stair, tear, underwear
after, apple, bagpipes, beef, parrot, start, triangle
mammals
antelope, armadillo, bat, bear, cat, dolphin, elk, manatee, moose, seal, tiger, walrus, whale
alligator, bird, butterfly, chameleon, fish, lizard, shark, snake, turtle
things with eight legs
chigger, daddy long legs, dust mite, octopus, scorpion, spider, tick, two horses
ant, butterfly, earwig, flea, locust, louse, silverfish, wasp
insects
ant, butterfly, cockroach, earwig, flea, fly, grasshopper, honeybee, locust, louse, mosquito, silverfish, wasp
centipede, crayfish, earthworm, millipede, scorpion, spider, tick
vegetables
asparagus, broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, eggplant, kale, potato, pumpkin, spinach, turnip, yam, zucchini
apple, beef, bread, cereal, egg, honey, orange, pasta, pear, rice, watermelon
trees
apple, ash, cashew, cypress, fir, ginkgo, maple, olive, orange, palm, tulip, walnut
aloe, blueberry, bromeliad, cabbage, fur, gloxinia, grape, iris, ivy, orchid, peanut, pineapple
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dag Hammarskjold, Martin Luther King Jr., Lester Pearson, Shimon Peres, Anwar Sadat, Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, John F. Kennedy, John Paul II, Trygve Lie, U Thant, Boris Yeltsin
cities
Beijing, Bogota, Delhi, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Lagos, London, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Tokyo
Annapurna, Cyprus, Eritrea, Esperanto, Hindu Kush, Kilimanjaro, Niger, Orinoco, Suriname, Yangtze, Zambezi
spherical things
ball bearing, baseball, currant, earth, globe, grapefruit, meatball, moon, orange, pearl, planet, sun
banana, egg, football, lemon, pasta, pear, pineapple, bat, zucchini
team sports
baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, water polo
golf, squash, tennis
continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
Aegean, Arabia, Arctic, Greenland, India, Scandinavia
simple machines
inclined plane, lever, pulley, screw, wedge, wheel and axle
adze, assembly line, ax, hammer, rasp, turbine, wire, windmill
French Impressionist painters
Bazille, Cezanne, Degas, Guillaumin, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissaro, Renoir, Sisley
Braque, Chagall, da Vinci, Dumas, Fragonard, Michelangelo, Picasso, Utrillo
classical composers
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Hayden, Mahler, Mozart, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi
Baikal, Bazille, Chagall, Delacroix, Morisot, Pauling, Sisley
things to wear on your head
beanie, beret, crown, deerstalker, fez, hairnet, helmet, hijab, kepi, mantilla, sombrero, tiara, toupee, turban, wimple, yarmulke
curlew, epaulette, espadrille, knickerbocker, milliner, moccasin, scepter, trapezius, windsor
things that are yellow
banana, canary, citrine, daffodil, dandelion, goldfinch, grapefruit, lemon, saffron, sulfur, sun
cardinal, cashew, cinnamon, coal, milkweed, orange, raven
things with wheels
bicycle, bus, car, chariot, gyroscope, luggage (some), pulley, pushcart, roulette, skateboard, stroller, tractor, train, tricycle
canoe, hovercraft, ice skate, row boat, ski, surfboard
contagious diseases
chicken pox, common cold, flu, hepatitis, measles, meningitis, pertussis, rubella, smallpox
anthrax, bursitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, malaria, osteoporosis, tendonitis, tetanus
stars
Alpha Centauri, Altair, Antares, Arcturus, Betelgeuse, Canopus, Capella, Procyon, Polaris, Rigel, Sirius, Spica, Vega
Andromeda, Cygnus, Big Dipper, Canis Major, Leo, Orion, Pisces, Scorpius, Southern Cross, Ursa Minor
constellations
Andromeda, Cygnus, Big Dipper, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Cassiopeia, Leo, Orion, Pisces, Scorpius, Southern Cross, Ursa Minor
Alpha Centauri, Altair, Antares, Arcturus, Betelgeuse, Canopus, Capella, Procyon, Polaris, Rigel, Sirius
footwear
boot, brogue, clog, espadrilles, flip flop, galoshes, loafer, moccasin, mukluk, mules, pump, sandal, sneakers, stiletto, winklepicker
epaulette, gauntlet, gumshoe, hijab, knickerbocker, plantar, shoetree, toekick, wimple
islands
Borneo, Corsica, Cuba, Cyprus, Greenland, Madagascar, New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Sicily, Singapore, Sumatra, Taiwan, Trinidad
Amazon, Antares, Bazilla, Caspian, Cassiopeia, Greece, Thailand, Volga
scientists
Niels Bohr, Luther Burbank, Francis Crick, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Antoine Lavoisier, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Gregor Mendel, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur
Thomas Aquinas, G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, John Locke, Niccolo Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Baruch Spinoza, Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophers
Thomas Aquinas, G. W. F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, John Locke, Niccolo Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, Plato, Socrates, Jean-Paul Sartre, Baruch Spinoza, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Luther Burbank, Francis Crick, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Antoine Lavoisier, Gregor Mendel, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur
poets
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Bishop, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman
Filippo Brunelleschi, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Gehry, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Inigo Jones, Rem Koolhaas, I. M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Christopher Wren, Frank Lloyd Wright
architects
Alvar Aalto, Filippo Brunelleschi, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Gehry, Walter Gropius, Richard Morris Hunt, Philip Johnson, Inigo Jones, Le Corbusier, Rem Koolhaas, I. M. Pei, Louis Sullivan, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Christopher Wren, Frank Lloyd Wright
Niels Bohr, Luther Burbank, Thomas Aquinas, G. W. F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson
marine mammals
dolphin, dugong, manatee, polar bear, porpoise, sea lion, sea otter, seal, walrus, whale
alligator, caiman, crocodile, lizard, snake, tortoise, tuatara, turtle
reptiles
alligator, caiman, crocodile, lizard, snake, tortoise, tuatara, turtle
dolphin, dugong, manatee, polar bear, porpoise, sea lion, sea otter
perennials
anemone, aster, echinacea, geranium, hibiscus, hosta, iris, phlox, salvia, viola, yucca
cosmos, impatiens, maple, pansy, petunia, tomato, willow, zinnia
four-letter words
acid, aloe, base, bean, crab, dish, fact, farm, gold, golf, hall, hand, mark, pick, play, seal, spot, talk, true, walk, wren, yard
ax, banana, bar, finger, flute, lemon, lobster, maple, mix, otter, silver
chairs
Adirondack, Aeron, arm, bean bag, club, Eames, electric, high, lawn, recliner, rocking, slipper, swivel, wheel, wingback
aloe, butter, candle, copper, dolphin, leg, silk, slipping, wax
herbs and spices
basil, bay leaf, cardamon, cumin, dill, mace, nutmeg, oregano, paprika, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme
amethyst, aster, butter, caiman, dugong, hosta, pansy, peridot, thymine, tourmaline
silk fabrics
chiffon, charmeuse, dupioni, georgette, organza, pongee, raw, shantung
balloon, baroque, corduroy, facial tissue, hibiscus, linen, rocky road, sheath, toile
Best Picture Oscar Winners
Ben-Hur, Chicago, Crash, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, Gladiator, My Fair Lady, The Godfather, The Hurt Locker, The Sting, Titanic
Jaws, Psycho, Raging Bull, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz
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