Association Challenge

About Association Challenge

Give your memory a workout with Association Challenge: 15 multiple-choice questions with a mix of 5 easy, 5 medium, 5 hard questions, free to play right in your browser. Find the connection between seemingly unrelated items! Expect to spend about 7 minutes; every question comes with an explanation, so you learn something even when you miss.

A few sample questions

1. 1. What do 'diamond,' 'heart,' 'club,' and 'spade' have in common?

   Answer: They are suits in a deck of cards

   Diamond, heart, club, and spade are the four suits in a standard deck of playing cards. Each suit has 13 cards, making 52 cards total.

2. 2. What connects 'Mercury,' 'Venus,' 'Mars,' and 'Jupiter'?

   Answer: They are all planets AND Roman gods

   Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are all planets in our solar system AND names of ancient Roman gods. The planets were named by ancient Romans who observed them in the night sky.

3. 3. What do 'bass,' 'bow,' and 'lead' have in common?

   Answer: They are all words with two different pronunciations and meanings

   Bass, bow, and lead are all heteronyms — words spelled the same but with different pronunciations and meanings (e.g., bass fish vs. bass guitar, bow and arrow vs. take a bow).

4. 4. What connects 'Washington,' 'Jefferson,' 'Roosevelt,' and 'Lincoln'?

   Answer: They are on Mount Rushmore

   Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln are the four presidents carved into Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, completed in 1941.

5. 5. What do 'robin,' 'cardinal,' 'eagle,' and 'blue jay' have in common beyond being birds?

   Answer: They are all names of sports teams

   Robin, Cardinal, Eagle, and Blue Jay are all names of professional sports teams — the Orioles (close to robin), Cardinals, Eagles, and Blue Jays, among others.

Things you'll learn along the way

• ✓Spring (season/water source/coil), fall (season/to tumble), bank (financial/river edge), and match (game/fire starter) all have multiple completely different meanings.
• ✓The Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, and Danube are all major rivers on different continents: Africa, South America, North America, and Europe respectively.
• ✓They are all associated with the number 13: a baker's dozen is 13, 13 is considered unlucky, 'Friday the 13th' is a superstitious date, and Apollo 13 was the famous troubled NASA mission.