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!

22 comments:

Tomsk said...

2. Reason - season
4. Shrink - shrine

Tomsk said...

1. Polite - police

Moddey_Dhoo said...

7 Sultan Suntan

Moddey_Dhoo said...

10 Barter Carter

Tomsk said...

10. Barter - Carter

Tomsk said...

Curse you Mr Dhoo!

Anonymous said...

8. Shiver - Shiner?

Moddey_Dhoo said...

9 Fought Nought

SpaceSquid said...

All correct, peeps.

Pause said...

11. Sort - Short

14. Anger - Angler

Pause said...

5. Bottle - Battle

Pause said...

12. Tinted - Tainted

SpaceSquid said...

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.

Pause said...

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

Pause said...

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.

SpaceSquid said...

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

Pause said...

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

6. Infect - Insect

Pause said...

15. Pickle - Prickle

SpaceSquid said...

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!

Dan said...

Late to the party but

13 is Patent and Patient

Dan said...

Ad 3 is Tumble and Rumble

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

SpaceSquid said...

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...