Shamelessly "liberated" from a local pub quiz, I really rather liked this round and so figured I'd give it a... well, not a wider audience, obviously, but a different one at least.
For the first ten questions, there are two six-letter word answers, with the second answer only one letter different from the first. For example:
Combat teams fight against underwater ink-squirters: Squads - Squids.
For the last five questions, instead of changing a letter for the second answer, add one instead.
- Courteous detectives, perhaps? Polite - Police (Tomsk)
- Think about food then add condiments Reason - Season (Tomsk)
- Take a fall during a gang-fight Tumble - Rumble (Dan)
- A psychiatrist finds themselves in a holy place Shrink - Shrine (Tomsk)
- Lose your nerve before a big fight Bottle - Battle (Pause)
- Give an ant a disease Infect - Insect (Pause)
- An Eastern ruler with a healthy glow Sultan - Suntan (Moddey_Dhoo)
- Feel a bit shook up about having a black eye Shiver - Shiner (anonymous)
- Got into a scrap about nothing at all Fought - Nought (Moddey_Dhoo)
- Haggle over price with an ex-US President Barter - Carter (Moddey_Dhoo)
- Put into some kind of order, than blew a fuse Sorted - Shorted (Pause)
- When given a faint colouring, went off Tinted - Tainted (Pause)
- Product protection for someone in a ward perhaps Patent - Patient (Dan)
- Annoy the riverbank sportsmen Angers - Anglers (Pause)
- Relish a sharp tingly sensation Pickle - Prickle (Pause)
22 comments:
2. Reason - season
4. Shrink - shrine
1. Polite - police
7 Sultan Suntan
10 Barter Carter
10. Barter - Carter
Curse you Mr Dhoo!
8. Shiver - Shiner?
9 Fought Nought
All correct, peeps.
11. Sort - Short
14. Anger - Angler
5. Bottle - Battle
12. Tinted - Tainted
Just about, Pause. "Sort" isn't a six letter word, but the correction is so blindingly obvious I've just given it to you anyway.
Bah. Always read the exam question carefully... twice.
No, hang on, if the 6-letter rule still applies to 11 through 15, then how does "Anger" fit in? If it needs an 's' then shouldn't the question should say "sportsmen", or else the quiz should make clear that either the first or second word can be 6 letters?
Not to be picky or anything - I still failed to pay full attention either way.
Dammit! Good point. I've made the necessary adjustments. Man, my spelling/grammar was weak yesterday. I blame maths.
Ok, well now that's settled and I've read the question properly:
6. Infect - Insect
15. Pickle - Prickle
Noice. Between you you've now found all four of the answers I missed at the time, once again confirming the only reason I don't win the quiz every week is that I've been betrayed by my friends insisting on having their own lives in their own corners of the world. Boo!
Late to the party but
13 is Patent and Patient
Ad 3 is Tumble and Rumble
Would totly have got the rest if I had spotted this earlier (honest :) )
And we hit the full house. Nice work Dan, and everybody else. Clearly these word quizzes are easier than the music ones I've done in the past. I shall bear this in mind...
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