The fastest group at coming up with the names is. So what does this have to do with boomers? Players are asked to click on their age group, and the site tallies and ranks them by decades. Top score on the day we looked was 4,100. In the 10 million quizzes that Merriam-Webster says have been taken since Name That Thing debuted in 2011, the average score has been 2,320. Your score reflects both speed and accuracy. Is that thing you press on a trumpet a key, a valve, a button? What’s the real name for kneecap? (These aren’t on the quiz we don’t want to spoil the game for you.)
The pictures range from familiar to obscure, and they come from all over the place: art, mechanics, fashion, biology, carpentry, sports. Four possible words for the image are listed, and you have 15 seconds to pick the right one. Sometimes an arrow indicates a particular part of the thing (like the tusk of an elephant or a shingle on a roof).
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The “visual vocab” quiz called Name That Thing consists of a series of 10 familiar and not-so-familiar images that appear one at a time on the screen. a toga!” And you think: I never used have so much trouble with words.Ī ray of light on the aging-brain front comes from Merriam-Webster, the venerable reference company, which hosts a few word games on its Web site.
Baby boomers, you know you do this: “Honey, can you hand me the.
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