Take Me Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: Japanese currency

The country of Yemen lies on the south-western corner of the Arabian peninsula. Taking the letters 'ME' out of Yemen leaves Yen, which is the Japanese currency unit.

A yen also means a yearning for something. So I might have a yen for a rial if I were visiting Yemen, and a yen for a yen if I were in Japan.

Answer: Opposite of off

An omen is a sign or portent. Removing the letters 'ME' from omen leaves the word on, which is the opposite of off.

An omen can be good or bad. They are often connected with superstitions. A black cat crossing your path is considered a good omen in the United Kingdom, but extremely unlucky if it happens in some other parts of the world.

Answer: Container for holy water

To foment is to stir up trouble. Taking the letters 'ME' out of foment, leaves font, which is a basin in a church for holding holy water.

The very similar word, ferment, is also used meaning to instigate trouble or unrest. In an Anglican church, the font will be uncovered and filled with water for use in a baptism service. In a Roman Catholic church, a font will be found by the door so that visitors to the church may bless themselves with it on entry to the building.

Answer: One hundredth of a dollar

Cement is used for making mortar or concrete. Removing the letters 'ME' from cement leaves cent, which is one hundredth of a dollar.

Cement is usually a mixture of limestone and clay. It is mixed with water and sand to make mortar. Aggregate is added for concrete. The term cent is used for one hundredth parts of other currency units as well as dollars. For example the Kenyan shilling, the Mauritian rupee, the leone from Sierra Leone, and the euro all have cents, although the last one is often referred to as a euro-cent.

Answer: Move fast on foot

The first of the four stomachs of a cow is the rumen. Taking the letters 'ME' out of rumen leaves run, which means to move quickly on foot.

The word run can also be used for something which flows freely, or to manage a business or other operation. With the addition of the letter s it becomes an informal term for diarrhoea. A cow with an upset rumen might get the runs.

Answer: Bed for a baby in the UK

A celestial body with a tail is a comet. Removing the letters 'ME' from comet leaves cot, which is a baby's bed in the United Kingdom.

Comets can range in size from having a nucleus as small as 100m to as large as 30km. The tail is a mixture of gas and dust. Halley's Comet is one of the best known, it reappears roughly once every seventy-six years. The word cot is used in some parts of the world to refer to a small collapsible bed.

Answer: Damaged by a depression

Demented is another word for insane or deranged. Removing the letters 'ME' from demented leaves dented, which describes something which has been damaged by having a dent in it.

Literally meaning suffering from dementia, the word demented is used in an everyday sense to describe a person or thing acting in a wild or uncontrolled manner. A dent is a slight depression in a hard object, so an item that is dented will be damaged in this way.

Answer: South Korean currency

Female human beings are women. Taking the letters 'ME' out of women leaves won, which is the currency used in South Korea.

The word won is also the past tense of the verb 'to win'. So the South Korean women might have won some won as a prize in a competition.

Answer: Indefinite article

A prayer often concludes with the word amen. Taking the letters 'ME' out of amen leaves an, which is one of the two indefinite articles in English, a being the other.

Amen is used at the end of prayers in the Abrahamic religions, and means 'so be it'. Usage of the two different indefinite articles depends on the following noun. If the noun sounds as though it begins with a vowel, then an is used. This leads to apparent anomalies like a university, and, possibly out of date now, an hotel (since the h used to be silent).

Answer: Kanga's baby

Juliet's lover in Shakespeare's play is Romeo. Removing the letters 'ME' from Romeo leaves Roo, who is Kanga's baby in A.A. Milne's stories.

'Romeo and Juliet' is probably one of Shakespeare's best-known plays, and has been studied by generations of British schoolchildren for their exams. However, I have a preference for the adventures of Christopher Robin and his animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.