Language survey!

[kyrasantae]

Edit: Wow, I got way more responses than I was expecting even in only 24 hours. I have now closed the comments section. Thank you for contributing!

Hello everybody!

I'm conducting a really quick survey for a term paper, and would like native English speakers to answer the following questions:

In the picture below, a man is giving a presentation.


(Picture from Extra Credits)

1. What do you call the piece of furniture that he is standing behind?
2. Do you know of any other words for it in English? If so, how are they different in meaning than the word you gave in question 1?

Please provide the following demographic information:
Age:
Gender:
City/Town you are from:
Occupation:
Highest level of formal education completed:

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Comments

[nightwind292.livejournal.com]

oh, and you might be influancing results by putting the name of a pastor on it.

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

He's not a pastor; he's a (relatively) well-known speaker on video games (see the link below the picture)

[nightwind292.livejournal.com]

very odd, google gave me a link to him as a pastor as the third link, the first two are the gamer stuff.

Bah, sometimes I think too much.