Only 3% Of the Population Can Name These Everyday Objects. Can You?

Can you name the part of the zipper you yank on to make your jeans or jacket close?

• Zipull

• Pull tab

• Ziphead

What is the name of those stringy things on a banana that you have to remove before eating?

• Phloem

• Corm

What is the name of that metal thing at the end of a shoestring?

• Aglet

• Auklet

• Blet

What is the name of the thing at the bottom of a wine bottle?

• Punt

• Dunt

• Bunt

What is the name of the white thing on your nail?

• Nunule

• Lunule

• Nail tips

What is the name of the vapor trail following an aircraft?

• Contrail

• Jetstream

What do you call the prongs of a fork?

• Tines

• Prines

What is the name of the metal thing around the pencil?

• Erasule

• Ferrule

What is the name for a pea-sized dab of toothpaste?

• Bindle

• Nurdle

What’s the space called right between your eyebrows?

• Glabella

• Lanule

What is the name of the clear, oval-shaped attachments on the inner part of eyeglasses?

• Eye cushions

• Nose pads

What do you call the end of a straw wrapper that a waiter leaves on your straw when serving your drink?

• Strawphenal

• Strawphylactic

What is the name of the thing on your mouse that moves a page up or down?

• Scroll wheel

• Shortmouse

What’s the name for the cardboard ring that protects your hand from a hot coffee cup?

• Wamfle

• Zarf

What’s the name of the arm hole of a jacket?

• Armest

• Armscye