5 Items or More, You Might Not Know Quiz

Answer: Ankle

This item is known as a spur. It comes in many designs, all of which have a spiked wheel and are attached to the heel of a rider's boot. They are used to urge a horse to move forward or pick up speed.

Answer: Chef

This simple device is a vegetable peeler. It comes in many designs, all of which are used to peel the skin or rind off vegetables before preparation. They are found in the kitchen alongside such common kitchen implements as tongs, church-key can openers, and graters.

Answer: False

In 1982, this device, with the name of Jarvik 7, became the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted into a human. The first patient to receive this device lived for another 112 days after his own diseased heart was removed. The second patient lived for almost two years after implantation.

There is no such thing as a hoof implant, and most horses who break or severely injure their legs will have to be put down.

Answer: Tobacco juice

A cuspidor, also called a spittoon, is used as a receptacle for the excess spit from chewing tobacco. Usually made from metal or porcelain, cuspidors were a common site in motels, restaurants, and taverns for hundreds of years. While some were very simple, others, like the one depicted, were quite elaborate.

Answer: False

This is a common clothes pin or clothes peg, used for hanging wet laundry on a clothesline to dry. These were originally made from a solid piece of wood, like the one depicted. Today they are often made of two pieces of plastic that are connected by a metal spring. Until the advent of the clothes pin, clothes were often spread on bushes or rocks to dry in the sun.

Answer: Snood

A snood is a simple type of hairnet that has been in use for centuries in many parts of the world. Simple versions were worn daily just to hold a woman's hair, while others were more elaborate and sometimes spotted with jewels. There is a similar version of this headwear known as a beard snood, which is worn by bearded men at work, for health and safety reasons.

Answer: Worm

This piece of equipment is known as a worm, possibly due to the curled end. It was used to remove the remnants of unspent powder bags that were found in most types of muzzle-loading field artillery. These worms varied in length and width depending on the size of the barrel that they were designed to clean out.

The largest worms were made for cleaning cannons and could be as long as 5ft. or 1.5 meters.

Answer: At the opera

This is a pair of pearl-handled opera glasses. They are best described as a low powered type of binocular, usually used at the opera and plays. They are typically produced with a power of between 3x and 5x to avoid distortion.

Answer: Picking locks

These are just some of the tools used to pick a lock. The occupation of the locksmith is an old and time-honored one. These are delicate tools designed to manipulate the inner workings of a lock without causing any damage to the working mechanism. It takes many years of practice to become a master locksmith.

Answer: Smoking

This ancient smoking implement is known as a hookah. It is a type of water pipe that has been used for centuries for smoking tobacco. It is believed to have originated in areas of southern and southwestern Asia. It consists of one or more flexible tubes, attached to a container full of water, through which smoke is drawn and cooled before being inhaled.