Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Quck Quz

Update: Now with added spelling!

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.
  1. Courteous detectives, perhaps?     Polite - Police (Tomsk)
  2. Think about food then add condiments    Reason - Season (Tomsk)
  3. Take a fall during a gang-fight Tumble - Rumble (Dan)
  4. A psychiatrist finds themselves in a holy place    Shrink - Shrine (Tomsk)
  5. Lose your nerve before a big fight    Bottle - Battle (Pause)
  6. Give an ant a disease    Infect - Insect (Pause)
  7. An Eastern ruler with a healthy glow    Sultan - Suntan (Moddey_Dhoo)
  8. Feel a bit shook up about having a black eye    Shiver - Shiner (anonymous)
  9. Got into a scrap about nothing at all    Fought - Nought (Moddey_Dhoo)
  10. Haggle over price with an ex-US President    Barter - Carter (Moddey_Dhoo)
  11. Put into some kind of order, than blew a fuse    Sorted - Shorted (Pause)
  12. When given a faint colouring, went off    Tinted - Tainted (Pause)
  13. Product protection for someone in a ward perhaps Patent - Patient (Dan)
  14. Annoy the riverbank sportsmen    Angers - Anglers (Pause)
  15. Relish a sharp tingly sensation    Pickle - Prickle (Pause)
Good luck!
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22 comments:

  1. Tomsk11 March 2015 at 21:20

    2. Reason - season
    4. Shrink - shrine

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  2. Tomsk11 March 2015 at 21:22

    1. Polite - police

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  3. Moddey_Dhoo11 March 2015 at 21:28

    7 Sultan Suntan

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  4. Moddey_Dhoo11 March 2015 at 21:30

    10 Barter Carter

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  5. Tomsk11 March 2015 at 21:33

    10. Barter - Carter

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  6. Tomsk11 March 2015 at 21:34

    Curse you Mr Dhoo!

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  7. Anonymous11 March 2015 at 22:07

    8. Shiver - Shiner?

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  8. Moddey_Dhoo12 March 2015 at 00:06

    9 Fought Nought

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  9. SpaceSquid12 March 2015 at 08:05

    All correct, peeps.

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  10. Pause12 March 2015 at 08:47

    11. Sort - Short

    14. Anger - Angler

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  11. Pause12 March 2015 at 08:59

    5. Bottle - Battle

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  12. Pause12 March 2015 at 09:04

    12. Tinted - Tainted

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  13. SpaceSquid12 March 2015 at 09:40

    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.

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  14. Pause12 March 2015 at 09:52

    Bah. Always read the exam question carefully... twice.

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  15. Pause12 March 2015 at 09:58

    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.

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  16. SpaceSquid12 March 2015 at 10:03

    Dammit! Good point. I've made the necessary adjustments. Man, my spelling/grammar was weak yesterday. I blame maths.

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  17. Pause12 March 2015 at 10:57

    Ok, well now that's settled and I've read the question properly:

    6. Infect - Insect

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  18. Pause12 March 2015 at 12:43

    15. Pickle - Prickle

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  19. SpaceSquid12 March 2015 at 13:32

    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!

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  20. Dan12 March 2015 at 15:00

    Late to the party but

    13 is Patent and Patient

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  21. Dan12 March 2015 at 15:01

    Ad 3 is Tumble and Rumble

    Would totly have got the rest if I had spotted this earlier (honest :) )

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  22. SpaceSquid12 March 2015 at 17:29

    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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