American movies are often re-titled for foreign audiences. In this quiz, you'll be given a foreign title of a US movie, translated into English. Can you guess what movie it was in the US? It's a multiple-choice question, so it shouldn't be too hard. After all, I haven't even seen the vast majority of these movies, yet I scored 27 out of 30 by taking time to think about each question. Bonus: if you take the quiz again, the questions will be different. http://lurkingtitle.com/ -via mental_floss

The vernal equinox is tomorrow evening (7:21PM EDT), which means our long snowy winter will officially be over! There was a lot of stuff going on this week at Neatorama- we don't want you to miss a bit of it, so here are the highlights:

In spring, a young geek's fancy turns to thoughts of love, so Jill Harness rounded up some inspiration with 10 More Geeky Love Songs.

Phil Haney sorted out the many different lineups of our favorite bands over the years in The Replacement Musicians.

We had a guest post from author Stephen Rebello called Five Things You Didn’t Know About Alfred Hitchcock in honor of Alfred Hitchcock Day last Saturday.

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader filled us in on The Science of Moving Pictures.

From the Annals of Improbable Research came the classic battle of Coke vs. Pepsi: The Pioneers.

We also got A Brief and Incomplete Timeline of T-Shirt History, courtesy of our friends at mental_floss magazine. By the way, mental_floss is experiencing some website issues (cough*hackers*cough), but a team of very expensive geeks are working to have that cleared up soon!

At NeatoBambino, Tiffany marveled at the surprising things young children say in Out Of The Mouth Of Babes: Part 1. Oh yeah, there's a giveaway involved for your participation! Look for part two coming this week.

In the Name That Weird Invention! contest, Scott-O had a winning entry with the name First Eye’d Kit, and nik said he’d call it the Emergen-See Kit. Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!

We had an extra contest on Saturday, in the post Say What, Batman? Your mission: to provide a funny explanation leading up to the posted Batman and Robin comic panel. Larry won a t-shirt for his scenario, and Clippy pasted together an entire comic for his entry, but didn't select a t-shirt.

The What Is It? game came up on Thursday. Once again, the very first comment had the correct answer! Berhard wins a t-shirt because he knew the device is a stanchion, to hold cattle still for milking or veterinary procedures. The funniest answer was from Stephen Bishop, who said it was an early prototype for a mammogram! However, he didn’t select a t-shirt.

Looking for more once you've caught up on this week's Neatorama posts? Check out the links at the NeatoHub or the articles at The Best of Neatorama!

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Duane Keisler painted a tangerine, but couldn't resist peeling it and helping himself to it ...which he also painted. Link -via Metafilter

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A Japanese cartoon explains the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant, in bathroom terms that children can understand. -via Everlasting Blort

The first use of the word "tsunami" in an English language publication was in the September 1896 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Eliza Ruhama Scidmore used the Japanese term to describe what we used to call a tidal wave or (more correctly) an earthquake wave.

Scidmore's article in National Geographic gave the world a gripping insight into the horror of the 1896 tsunami. A few survivors, who saw it advancing in the darkness, reported its height as 80 to 100 feet, she wrote.

"With a difference of but thirty minutes in time between the southern and northern points, it struck the San-Riku coast and in a trice obliterated towns and villages."

In what today looks like an eery precursor of the 2011 tsunami in the same part of Japan, the 1896 wave "washed away and wrecked 9,313 houses, stranded some larger craft--steamers, schooners, and junks--and crushed or carried away 10,000 fishing boats...Thousands of acres of arable land were turned to wastes, projecting rocks offshore were broken, overturned, or moved hundreds of yards, shallows and bars were formed, and in some localities the entire shoreline was changed," Scidmore reported.

Read more about the 1896 disaster at NatGeo Newswatch. Link -Thanks, Marilyn!

You may have to play Jorinapeka through at least once to get the hang of it. The goal is to clear the colored balls, but clearing other balls along the way brings you more points. My best score was about 400, but some who have worked out the strategy have scored up to 8,000 points! Still, even if you aren't great at it, this is a pleasant little game. http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/jorinapeka.html -via Look at This

How much would you pay for a dinner date with Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell? Or lunch with original Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter? How about skydiving with a shuttle astronaut? Or maybe you'd be more inclined to purchase some astronaut autographs, or objects that have been in space. These are all up for bid now at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during their spring auction. The ASF was founded by Mercury astronauts, and proceeds go to fund science and technology scholarships for deserving students. Bidding will close on March 26. Link

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Redditor honsco edited 81 one movies to show the scenes where the title of the movie was mentioned. He got the idea to do all this work from a scene in the TV show Family Guy. -via reddit

Steve D took an offhand comment from Twitter and ran with it, creating an actual box of Astronom O's, “The Breakfast of People Who Stay Up All Night”. The oat cereal contains marshmallow moons and stars, and the box features Carl Sagan on the front and star facts on the back. He also made a single-serving size! Do you think General Mills might find this idea worth marketing? http://madartlab.com/2011/03/16/astronom-os/ -via the Presurfer

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Doodling a robot elephant is so much more fun than etoecology! -via Buzzfeed

Dark Roasted Blend has a mega-post on earthquakes and tsunamis -not only the recent disaster in Japan, but earthquakes from other times and places as well. There are photographs, an explanation of how and why earthquakes and tsunamis happen, and diagrams showing how the U.S. is under threat of a big earthquake as well. Link

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Little children say the strangest things! But if you listen closely, what they come up with reveals how differently they see the world. They haven't learned all the things we know, and they have a completely different perspective on what they observe. In this post at NeatoBambino, Tiffany shares some of the odd nuggets of wisdom that surprised her coming from the NeatoKids. And you are invited to add the strange things your children have said, for a chance to win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop! Link

Buzzfeed has collected 41 art projects to raise money for disaster relief in Japan all into one post. Most incorporate the rising sun from the national flag as a motif to represent Japan, although some use Japanese pop culture icons to get the idea across. My favorite (although it is difficult to select just one) is this Red Cross robot lifting the sun, available on a t-shirt. Link

Vasaloppet {wiki} is an annual 90km cross-country ski race that is billed as the largest in the world. This year's race took place March 6th between the towns of Sälen and Mora in Sweden. See a video of the more than 15,000 people who took part this year. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

Predictions about the future tend to give us some ray of hope, but fiction can be totally depressing. Unrestrained fantasy, action, and shock value often make movies about dystopian futures into hits. Here's a list of 18 movies that all start out with a description of the future: "In a world where..." life as we know it has changed to something awful and our victim/hero dares to do something we consider normal, causing conflict with the powers-that-be. Make your selections carefully. Link [edit 3/17/11 by Alex - be careful, malware redirect has been reported on this link] -Thanks, Danny!