Strange Old Things - What are they?

How good is your memory of the past?
Try this fun quiz to see how many of these old things you remember and can name. I've dug up some images of interesting old items, let's see which ones you know. You'll have 5 seconds to name them before the answer is revealed.
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[@Quizzes4U]

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[@avaggdu1]

The "coffee grinder" is a spice grinder (for peppercorns, etc). It could be used for coffee beans, I suppose, but is more commonly used for spices.

[@bobf4765]

Small cup of coffee or a lot of grinding... Nothing like pepper flavored coffee...

[@_Diana_S]

This is used for Turkish style coffee, when the grind has to be very fine. You have to warm up small amount of coffee beans (2-3 tbsp) in a dry frying pan, stirring them, until they become shiny, let them cool and then grind in this device. People only grind coffee for 1 or 2 small cups (2 or 3 teaspoons with a heap), so that it will be always fresh. It is usually done when someone visits you (a friend, a neighbor, a relative) and you exchange news, while preparing coffee, then sit, enjoy, and continue gossiping, sorry, conversation ). I have one at home, along with jezva/jezveh, (that metal "coffee maker"), but do not use them frequently.

[@Ckawauchi35]

Burner. The handle holds the globular glass and the bottom part is where the fire comes out. At least, I think that's what it is. Reminds me of the burner we used in my microbiology class when we were trying to dismantle the sturdy coatings of some bacteria. I collect old stuff--antiques, and I'm 65 YO. So I was able to make out most but there were a few that I really had no idea of. Interesting quiz. Thank you.

[@laineparnell]

those big paper cutters always scared the heck out of me. i think the mystery item is a coffee infuser

[@marianlincoln9008]

I think the mystery item is a coffee maker

[@erikbkugel1]

I believe it is to make (or serve?) turkish coffee.

[@CaptainEverythingHumorandMore]

I got 6 wrong. I called it slightly different but close. Like the Lubricator, I called it an oil can. Haha I got one. Thanks for the fun 🍺👍👍

[@sandybruce9092]

I said,oil,can, too! I,always,liked,the sound it made when pressing the bottom to make the oil come out! I have one for my old sewing machines!

[@colintuffs568]

The oil can had a flexible underside which when pressed delivered a single drop of oil

[@garbostyle1]

I'm old and was raised by my grandparents and around a family that loves and appreciates antiques so I got all of them. Fun quiz.

[@_Diana_S]

What's the last item then? :)

[@kenroberts3511]

The final item is the bottom half of a vacuum coffee pot, there would have been a funnel shaped part that sits on top of that with the coffee grounds, and and you put water in the part that you have. As the water heats up, it travels up into the funnel and steeps the coffee. When you turn the fire off, the cooling causes a vacuum in the lower carafe and sucks the liquid back down.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thank you😁👍

[@mickm6309]

I was thinking some sort of a drip coffee maker

[@colintuffs568]

Surely an early Cona coffee maker. There would be a glass wick burner filled with methylated spirit placed underneath to keep the coffee warm. ?

[@damianousley8833]

Alcohol stove for boiling water. Timber to insulate the handle. Breather holes for air to burn alcohol.

[@beritrisvik8961]

The last object are coffee brewing syphon... My grandmother had one... Got most right, but I missed on the camera...

[@kevinpayne9475]

Most of the items I recall from my childhood..my parents or grandparents having them. No idea of your mystery item. Good work Ben.

[@lesilemccravy5172]

7 right Snowshoes,projector,microphone,bell,ice cream scooper,perfume bottle,and camera I think coffee maker

[@traciechakraborty3829]

25/30. My guess for the mystery item is it's DEF some kind labortory equipment. Maybe beaker and bunsen burner? Or a distiller and burner?

[@johnopalko5223]

Being a certified old fart, I got all of them save the oil stove and the baby rattle. Those predated even me. No clue about the mystery item.

[@stevefranklin9176]

Same John. Thought the rattle was a pocket watch and the burner might be for cleaning silverware, table knives etc. lol ah well.

[@kennithprice6807]

21/30 no bonus, thanks 👍

[@joyjohnson8776]

As a kid I use to use the coal iron, we called it a self heater. Brought back a lot of memories.

[@lynn69jackson]

I still use an inkwell for my calligraphy.

[@josephzentis5280]

I'm 83 years old, but I can only guess that the baby rattle is older than I am.

[@christianebirwin8463]

I recognised most of the items, but not the last one. I use a mortar and pestle all the time - last time yesterday!

[@deborahmatatall]

Fun quiz, as always. I recognized most of these because I have been around for a long time.😁 I still use a hand mixer. Mine is Harvest Gold and doesn’t have a ground on the plug. Also, the nut cracker, which we use to crack crab legs and claws.🌸

[@snowflakesue3986]

I came to the comments to say the same, they're crab leg/claw crackers.

[@labla8940]

@@snowflakesue3986 I use them for crabs too but they are labeled as nut crackers as nuts are wat more common that crabs in most western countries. Many electric motors don't have grounding points the motor design dooesnt require

[@_Diana_S]

We too, use them both for seafood and nuts

[@smgdfcmfah]

I got most of these right, but partly because our rec room was full of antiques when I was kid (in the 70s) so even the very old ones were familiar (not to mention the many I use/used myself). The mystery item seems to be some sort of flask heater?

[@princesslupi4136]

22 correct. I have no clue on the last one. These are always fun to play. Tyfs. Ben. A pleasant weekend to you and yours.👍😁

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks, you too! I'm glad to hear you enjoy these quick fun ones as well as the more serious quizzes.

[@im1shak1biotches]

I’m guessing an old Bunsen burner but I have no idea. I’m about to screenshot and put it in Google to see if I’m right.

[@im1shak1biotches]

It’s a coffee pot, I was definitely wrong! I mean, isn’t a Bunsen burner pretty much the same thing, except with a different glass at the top? 😂😂

[@giovannacasadio9600]

25/30 which means i am old, I have seen and used quite a few of them😅. I would guess that the mystery item coul be a distiller of some sorts. Great quiz 😊

[@shirleyboy8859]

The Baby rattle has an Ivory handle which Baby would chew on when Teething so was also known as a Teething Ring... When I left School I went to work for an Auction House so have seen a Lot of Strange things.... Great fun Quiz..... :-))

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for the info

[@milleijones2828]

Got 13 right. I still have nutcracker like the one shown.

[@patmcgillhastings9657]

I knew all but one...the telegraph. I use the ice cream scooper and nut cracker, pastry cutter, oil can (lubricator), hair dryer, hole punch....LOL and more. Fun quiz.👍

[@Quizzes4U]

Yes, I think that question came out wrong, I guess we all still use many of these. What was I thinking?🤣

[@_Diana_S]

@@Quizzes4U Some of the items have not changed much either, like the hair dryer, it is almost the same as models produced now.

[@user-pb54]

I’ve always known the “paper cutter” as a guillotine. Still have an old wooden one and still use it. Does a much better job than it’s modern counterpart!

[@paulthompson8517]

An OG here so got all correct although I suspect the Coffee Grinder is probably a Spice Grinder. The mystery item looks like it is the lower half of a Coffee Percolator. The boiling liquid would be forced up a central tube run though the coffee grounds and drip back down into the liquid. We had 2 metal ones that used to come out at Chritmas that sat on the stove. They made very strong coffee served in small Coffee Cups.

[@michaeldowdle6123]

Stumped me on the baby rattle, I guess getting a high score on this one shows my age? Thanks Ben 🤓🇨🇦

[@c.r.1005]

Recognized all but 2 or 3 of them. That final item appears to be the lower part of a siphon (or vacuum) coffee pot. Thanks for the time tunnel! 🤣

[@theodorehough1048]

I still use the ice cream scooper and the coffee grinder. This was fun. I missed a couple but I knew most of the items.

[@drbluzer]

I missed a bunch of these . I have never seen the mystery item before and I am afraid to guess .

[@FriesianKiwi66]

This is a guess: The mystery item I think is an early coffee perculator, although I could be wrong.

[@paulcullen814]

The ice cream scoop - the dinner ladies at school used to use them to serve mashed potato.

[@Quizzes4U]

I remember that lumpy mash😳🙃

[@bobblowhard8823]

I got most of these correct. I have no idea what the mystery item is. Thanks, mate!

[@Magnumaniac]

22 correct of how ever many there were. I would say the mystery item is a distillation flask and paraffin burner

[@bikehubjapan]

Coffee boiler?

[@Quizzes4U]

Yes, it could be something like that

[@melstiller8561]

I have a more modern version of an ice cream scooper like the one you showed here, Ben. I recognized several items, especially the coal iron. As for the mystery item, I can only venture out a guess (and a very poor one at that): a lettuce washer thingy. 😂

[@Quizzes4U]

Yes, I guess we all use modern versions of quite a few of these. Maybe that was a silly question😂 I don't think the mystery item is a lettuce washer, as it looks like something that is heated from below. I'm guessing some sort of tea or coffee warmer. Hopefully one of my viewers will know for sure. Have a great weekend

[@melstiller8561]

@@Quizzes4U --- Ahhhh! I didn't notice a heating element/plate under that holed contraption... Maybe you're right, Ben: it also seems to have a see-through lid --- or am I seeing things? Let's see what other people say. I'm quite curious. Have a wonderful weekend, Ben. 🫶😄

[@hansdegroot8549]

Great old fashioned things . I had about 50 per cent correct.

[@sklag1]

28/30 the oil stove and the baby's rattle rattled me. I got the snow shoes though I've never seen snow in the eons I've been on this planet.

[@Quizzes4U]

You must live somewhere nice and warm then. We get plenty of snow most winters and I'm not a fan.

[@sklag1]

@@Quizzes4U Actually I lied, I have seen snow when I flew over the Alps on a trip to London. :) But never been in it.

[@_Diana_S]

Discovery channel helps to identify such items :)

[@johnzengerle7576]

21/30 extra item: coffee maker?

[@pamelaooshuizen7805]

Last one looks like the bottom half of a Cona coffee maker

[@Quizzes4U]

I think you could be right. 🙄

[@MrConverse]

*Kona. :-)

[@redfailhawk]

I got 21 right I think. Or maybe it was 26. I can't keep track.

[@yvonnepetty3400]

I .missed 5 Ben not sure of the last one Thanks. ❤️😊🇿🇦

[@giggiwidit5638]

23/30

[@stanwebb3480]

Several items were not photo'd so you had a good look at them; plus the fill in box was particle in the way!!! The last was a way to keep water warm for a cup of tea or coffee, under the glass was an area for a candle or Sterno!!!!!

[@darrylkassle361]

Ben maybe make some quick shorts. Just a very interesting trivia question or a few . Can help with the channel overall in terms of promo and getting new subs etc. Just an idea as I noticed you dont have any.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for the info. However, I tried shorts a while back. They didn't get many views, and the ad revenue from them is so low it wasn't worth the time it took to make them. I've noticed that other quiz channels that tried them had similar low views on them. So I deleted them which is why you can't see them. 😁 long form works best for me. But I appreciate your support 👍

[@CAMacKenzie]

I'm sure everybody had, and many still have, a nut cracker like that. My Grandma had an iron like that as a decoration on the hearth when I was a kid. She said she used it when she was first married (1919) but I had the impression it was old even then, maybe had belonged to her mother. That thing you called a baby's rattle looked more like a pocket watch. Cigarette lighters of the sort shown were very common until Bic came out with the disposable butane type. Now, you hardly ever see them, not only because of disposable lighters, but also because there are fewer smokers. The only reason I didn't recognize the eggbeater is because the blades were missing. I used ot have an ice cream scoop like that, except the handle was plastic. I had a flash attachment like that. You'd plug the flashbulb into the hole in the middle and replace the bulb after every flash picture. This one folds, which was a little unusual, but mine did, too. I have an oilcan like that in my garage right now. That's not a coffee grinder, it's a pepper mill. The mystery item looks like most of a coffee maker, but missing the part on top. It's a vacuum siphon type, missing the coffee-holding upper chamber. The crome-plated cage below the pot holds either an alcohol burner or a Sterno can. You put water in the bottom pot and ground coffee in the upper chamber, which is sealed to the bottom pot. A pipe goes from the upper chamber down into the water in the bottom, and when you heat the water to boiling, it is driven up into the upper chamber and the coffee. You then take away the heater and, as the lower chamber cools, it draws the brewed coffee back into the bottom. I have a siphon coffee pot, and it makes really good coffee, but I almost never use it because it's too damn much trouble. And it's fragile.

[@jebsails2837]

Missed two, could not identify the last one. I'm 75 and grew up with many of these. Told my grandson the coal iron was to remove wrinkles from the coal, like a bacon press does. Narragansett Bay

[@jlbksinger]

Looks like a vacuum flask coffee maker.

[@lornafraserwaterworth559]

Thank you Quizzes4U! I got almost all right! I still use and Ice cream scoop for mashed potato and Ice cream and Mortar an pestle for grinding spices

[@Quizzes4U]

Good stuff!

[@lisamarlow8408]

And yes grew up with almost every item.

[@Flowerkool]

It seems like an old fashioned laboratorium piece. It does look a bit too much as of an household item. Let’s keep it on making coffee then.

[@_Diana_S]

Or making moonshine )

[@cathypoole3015]

The mystery item is a coffee maker.

[@anonplayer8529]

Yep, missing the top "tank" and connecting tubes though

[@cynthiahunter519]

The last one is part of a coffee maker

[@YukoValis]

My score. Correct: 21 Incorrect: 9 Things I have actually used IRL: 17

[@johnledingham852]

21 out of 30, Quite chuffed. The mystery item...An early desk or bedside lamp?

[@rivermoon6190]

Is the mystery object a caviar jar - ice placed underneath and the caviar in the jar to keep cool?

[@Quizzes4U]

From the other comments I believe it's a coffee maker. 😁

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

I knew most of these because I’m 70. I found one of those horse bells when digging in my back yard to make a flower bed! It’s in perfect condition and it cleaned up to look almost new. My small southeastern Ontario town was established in the 1750’s, before the area was even populated. It was a lumber area supplying wood to Europe and Britain. I can only imagine the other things buried around here! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

[@christinam9989]

That is so cool! So interesting the things left behind from past lives and eras.

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

@@christinam9989 I found most of a tea cup that was dated to that same era, whilst digging the same flower bed. I imagine there’s stuff like that all through my property. Like a fossil cache for housewares … 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

[@timothysteiner8330]

Ain't an airpump without a hose! lol

[@lonelyp1]

It is a guess, but I think your mystery item is a tea pot. As far as the other things I think I got about 50%

[@Quizzes4U]

Most comments say it's a coffee maker. 😁👍

[@chelu4u]

Water Bong

[@JulianneRemley-l2q]

Burner

[@geh449]

When I was a kid, we had a set of nutcrackers and nutpicks. These quizzes never show the nutpicks, but they were useful for getting the nut meat out of the half shell after cracking.

[@markportas2828]

Disco light maker

[@_Diana_S]

Missed hole puncher, air pump and baby rattle, have no idea what a mystery item is, maybe, something that vapour goes on the glass,, then condenses and liquid gathers in the lower part? And the glass rotates by itself, since one side of a glass will be warmer than the other? :)

[@jemma50]

22/30 correct. Sorry, I don't know the mystery item. Thanks for the fun, Ben. ♥

[@KenLonsdale-kp5bj]

I knew 85% of those items, some of this stuff was pretty old.

[@uncralph4354]

The last one is a coffee maker

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

The mystery item looks to be an alcohol stove and the stand is supporting a glass bottle/beaker used to heat whatever liquid is placed in it.

[@chanchan5349]

Bunsen burner.

[@essiefowler9775]

Coffee perker

[@lesley585]

It's a coffee maker. The top is missing.

[@OldManMontgomery]

I did now most of the items. Most of them were in use in my lifetime. I'm more or less an old duffer.

[@ThomasLyon-xd3fv]

if the photos were a little better on a few of them,i would have known them all!

[@UrBasicGuy]

mystery item is a coffee maker

[@CaptHollister]

25/30 I'm old enough to have personally used or watched others use most of these. I think the mystery item is used to create glass Christmas tree decorations. Material is poured into the glass by the opening at the top which is then clamped to a burner, the burner heats the material inside the glass bubble and the vapour it releases coats the inside of the glass.

[@pantarkan7]

The last one looks like a warmer, but I would presume more likely for something like potpourri, rather than chemistry; because it's obviously paying attention to the aesthetic. I had not seen an oil stove like that before; and you caught me on the hand mixer, because I thought the motor was actually a tank...

[@rickjensen2589]

Apple peeler

[@MrMousley]

I didn't get the Oil Stove or the Coffee Maker. Which is odd .. because that's what I think the last one is a part of.

[@kattydover6356]

İ've got peppermill looks just like coffee grinder, scored nineteen. Bubble blower, just guessing!!

[@fraserhardmetal7143]

The mystery item is the bottom part of a siphon coffee maker - it's missing the top glass funnel.

[@wernerschiefer3742]

The EXTRA; Could be a coffe machine (Perculator)

[@ruthashton2154]

Oh wow o recognised a lot of these. I’m way too old! 😜 Thanks Ben 🙏

[@plunkervillerr1529]

It`s a bubble machine.

[@jj8995]

2 37 are actually crotall bells

[@annikanilsson6152]

22/30 sadly no clue what that mystery item might be though 🙂 Thanks for another great quiz! 🙂

[@Quizzes4U]

You're welcome 😊

[@IanYGath]

The last item is a coffee maker. A pour over siphon coffee maker to be exact.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks

[@mariekatherine5238]

Bonus item? Please give the size of it or add something to the picture to add perspective.

[@oldtop4682]

I had to laugh. I have the nutcracker (actually a couple of them), the ice cream scoop, and a similar coffee grinder I picked up overseas where they are still made. They use them to grind coffee for Turkish style coffee, so they don't have to grind much at one time. The baby rattle got me along with the mystery item, but I nailed most of them. I'm old though lol.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I don’t get it! Seriously, an ice cream scoop is an old thing? I knew all of these and actually have a few or similar in my home right now! It must mean I’m an old thing? 😮 I’m 73 and have used most of them or seen as antiques used by my parents or grandparents.

[@brianprice3193]

The baby rattle is actually a teething ring.

[@marleybone6615]

Last one is a Bunsen burner.

[@timeparty718]

Mystery item ... probably a chemistry flask warmed by a meths burner?

[@ronbiddle606]

It's a Wim way for a mustard mill

[@pantarkan7]

Wrong on the atomizer; it wasn't for perfume, it's to put the vermouth in the martini. Two spritzes for an ordinary one, just one for an extra dry...

[@_Diana_S]

I have seen such used in barber shops for spraying cologne on customers in a lot of movies. it is not for food/drinks, it is a perfumery item.

[@forresthouser5807]

Mystery item is an early Bunsen burner...

[@debraspencer6438]

Strainer

[@Quizzes4U]

This one is something different, just for fun. Do you know the mystery item, or fancy a good guess? Let me know what you think it is.😁😁

[@KìŧŧyDąrlìng2024]

Coffee brewing syphon

[@KìŧŧyDąrlìng2024]

I read back and @Soren_DK also guessed it to be a coffee siphon, beat me by 6 hours!

[@gerardacronin334]

Distilling flask?

[@gmanette188]

Can opener

[@helgrenze]

Scientific flask and burner.