50 Question Challenge #5, Emoji Quiz: answers and sources
Spoilers ahead! Play the video first. Here is every answer, the fun fact and the source we checked it against.
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Level 1: Emoji words
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Level 2: Emoji food
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What's on the menu? 🥜🧈🍇🍞
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
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Level 3: Quick countries
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Level 4: Sayings
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Which saying is this? 🌧️🐱🐶
It's raining cats and dogs Nobody knows for sure where it comes from.
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Which saying? 🍰👌
A piece of cake It means something is very easy.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piece-of-cake
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Name this saying. 🐘🛋️
The elephant in the room It's the big problem nobody talks about.
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Which saying is this? ⏰💰
Time is money Ben Franklin used it in a 1748 essay.
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Which saying? 🔨🧊
Break the ice It means getting people to start talking.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/break-the-ice
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Name this saying. 🐱👜
Let the cat out of the bag It means telling a secret by accident.
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Which saying is this? 🔵🌕
Once in a blue moon It means something that happens very rarely.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon
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Which saying? 🐴👄
Straight from the horse's mouth It means hearing it from the person who knows.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/straight-from...
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Name this saying. 🐦🌅🪱
The early bird catches the worm It means it pays to start early.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/the-early-bir...
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Last saying! 🍎👁️
The apple of my eye It means someone you love very much.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/apple-of-eye
Level 5: Movies
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Which movie is this? ☂️👜🎶
Mary Poppins It won five Oscars.
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Name this film. 🐋👦🌊
Free Willy The orca, Keiko, was later freed near Iceland.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_(orca)
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Which movie? 🐭🚗👨👩👦
Stuart Little It's based on E. B. White's 1945 book.
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Guess the movie. 🐠🔍🐙
Finding Dory Hank the octopus has only seven arms.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Dory
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Which film is this? 🐟👦🛵
Luca It's set on the Italian Riviera.
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Name this movie. 🌪️🐄🚗
Twister Its heroes are storm chasers in Oklahoma.
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Which movie? 🏀👽🐰
Space Jam Michael Jordan plays alongside Bugs Bunny.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam
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Guess the film. 📚👧🧠
Matilda Roald Dahl's book came out in 1988.
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Which movie is this? 🐶⚡🦸
Bolt Bolt is a TV star who thinks his powers are real.
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The very last puzzle: which movie? 🕹️👊🍭
Wreck-It Ralph Ralph is the bad guy of an arcade game.
The Big Aha stories
- Where emoji come from: In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita drew 176 tiny pictures for Japanese phones. Japan had earlier sets, but his became the famous one. Emoji is Japanese: e means picture, moji means character. So it only sounds like emotion. The two words aren't related! In 2016, the Museum of Modern Art in New York added his original set to its collection. Sources: wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji · wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita
- Why World Emoji Day is July 17: Every July 17 is World Emoji Day. Why that date? Apple's calendar emoji shows July 17. That's also the day Apple first showed its iCal app, in 2002. Sources: wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Emoji_Day · apple.com/newsroom/2002/07/17Apple-Introduces-iCal/
Bonus question
In which year did a dictionary first pick an emoji as its Word of the Year? We reveal the answer in the pinned comment under the video.