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From Airy to Zori Trivia Quiz

Begin with A and continue on through Z. Use the clues to find words that begin with successive alphabet letters and end with the REE sound as in AIRY, BERRY, and Madame CURIE. This type of quiz is more fun if you go FAST!

A multiple-choice quiz by robynraymer. Estimated time: 10 mins.

Author
robynraymer

Time
10 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
208,886

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
19 / 25

Plays
1236

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Question 1 of 25

1. Wedding _______?

Answer: (Begins with A--11 letters.)

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Question 2 of 25

2. Cover with dirt?

Answer: (Begins with B--4 letters.)

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Question 3 of 25

3. To _______ favor?

Answer: (Begins with C--5 letters.)

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Question 4 of 25

4. Dull and _______?

Answer: (Begins with D--6 letters.)

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Question 5 of 25

5. An eagle's nest?

Answer: (Begins with E--5 or 4 letters.)

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Question 6 of 25

6. Intense anger?

Answer: (Begins with F--4 letters.)

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Question 7 of 25

7. Bloody?

Answer: (Begins with G--4 letters.)

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Question 8 of 25

8. _______ Potter?

Answer: (Begins with H--5 letters.)

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Question 9 of 25

9. A wound or insult?

Answer: (Begins with I--6 letters.)

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Question 10 of 25

10. A group of twelve people?

Answer: (Begins with J--4 letters.)

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Question 11 of 25

11. 2004 U.S. presidential candidate?

Answer: (Begins with K--5 letters.)

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Question 12 of 25

12. A truck (British English)?

Answer: (Begins with L--5 letters.)

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Question 13 of 25

13. To wed?

Answer: (Begins with M--5 letters.)

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Question 14 of 25

14. Not one?

Answer: (Begins with N--4 letters.)

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Question 15 of 25

15. The Grand Ol' _______?

Answer: (Begins with O--4 letters.)

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Question 16 of 25

16. To ward off a blow?

Answer: (Begins with P--5 letters.)

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Question 17 of 25

17. A question?

Answer: (Begins with Q--5 letters.)

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Question 18 of 25

18. A telephone with a _______ dial? (Or the local _______ Club?)

Answer: (Begins with R--6 letters.)

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Question 19 of 25

19. A watery, insoluble mixture such as mud or plaster of Paris?

Answer: (Begins with S--6 letters.)

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Question 20 of 25

20. Region or property?

Answer: (Begins with T--9 letters.)

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Question 21 of 25

21. Money lending at an exorbitant interest rate?

Answer: (Begins with U--5 letters.)

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Question 22 of 25

22. A whim?

Answer: (Begins with V--6 letters.)

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Question 23 of 25

23. To fret?

Answer: (Begins with W--5 letters.)

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Question 24 of 25

24. I'm skipping X. In Japanese cuisine, marinated chicken pieces on skewers?

Answer: (Begins with Y--8 letters.)

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Question 25 of 25

25. Here's a freebie from the quiz title: A Japanese sandal (or a single flip flop)?

Answer: (Begins with Z--4 letters.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Wedding _______?

Answer: anniversary

Other "A" words ending with the REE sound include aerie, armory, artery, auditory, augury, and aviary.

2. Cover with dirt?

Answer: bury

Or bakery, battery, berry, or Barry Manilow.

3. To _______ favor?

Answer: curry

Or Carrie Underwood, category, cattery, cemetery, cheery, cherry, Beverly Cleary, Corey Clark, cowrie, Madame Curie, or cursory.

4. Dull and _______?

Answer: dreary

Or dairy, Derry, diary, dory (a flat-bottomed boat) or dowry.

5. An eagle's nest?

Answer: eyrie

Or eerie or Lake Erie or exclusionary or exculpatory. Since the hint tells you that the answer begins with E, the alternative spellings of aery and aerie won't work.

6. Intense anger?

Answer: fury

Or fairy, floury, flowery, flurry, or furry.

7. Bloody?

Answer: gory

Or Senator Gary Hart, Geary Street in San Francisco, Old Glory, Edward Gorey, Gregory Peck, or grocery store.

8. _______ Potter?

Answer: Harry

Or hairy, hallucinatory, history, hoary, or hurry.

9. A wound or insult?

Answer: injury

Or incendiary.

10. A group of twelve people?

Answer: jury

Or Jerry Lewis or jewelry or Jewry.

11. 2004 U.S. presidential candidate?

Answer: Kerry

Or knavery.

12. A truck (British English)?

Answer: lorry

Or laboratory, Laurie Anderson, Timothy Leary, leery, library, or livery.

13. To wed?

Answer: marry

Or Marie, Mary, Maury, merry, midwifery, misery, Missouri, monetary, Murray, or mystery.

14. Not one?

Answer: nary

Or necessary or nonstory.

15. The Grand Ol' _______?

Answer: Opry

The Grand Ol' Opry is a theater in Nashville, Tennessee. All the country music stars used to (and may still) get their big breaks there.

16. To ward off a blow?

Answer: parry

Or Matthew Perry, potpourri, preliminary, or preparatory.

17. A question?

Answer: query

Or quackery, quandary, quarry, quavery, or quivery.

18. A telephone with a _______ dial? (Or the local _______ Club?)

Answer: Rotary

Or raillery, rectory, refectory, refinery, refractory, remarry, respiratory, reverie, riflery, rivalry, robbery, rockery, rookery, or rubbery.

19. A watery, insoluble mixture such as mud or plaster of Paris?

Answer: slurry

Or savory, slavery, scary, scurry, showery, sorcery, sorry, surrey (with a fringe on top), stationary, and stationery.

20. Region or property?

Answer: territory

Or tannery, tarry, teary, Terry, tertiary, William Makepeace Thackeray, tilbury (a two-wheeled carriage), or Tory.

21. Money lending at an exorbitant interest rate?

Answer: usury

Or unmerry, unsavory, unweary, or urinary.

22. A whim?

Answer: vagary

Or valkyrie (a maiden in Norse mythology), vapory, vary, veery (a songbird), very, vestiary (a changing room), vinegary, vivary (a vivarium), vomitory, or votary.

23. To fret?

Answer: worry

Or wafery, waggery, warty, wary, wasterie (extravagance), watery, wavery, weary, wherry (a rowboat), winery, wintery, wiry, or witchery.

24. I'm skipping X. In Japanese cuisine, marinated chicken pieces on skewers?

Answer: yakitori

Or yeomanry.

25. Here's a freebie from the quiz title: A Japanese sandal (or a single flip flop)?

Answer: zori

Or zedoary (a tropical plant's medicinal root). If you liked this quiz, you might try another one from the same section. Now say this FAST: Anniversary, bury, curry, dreary, eyrie, fury, gory, Harry, injury, jury, Kerry, lorry, marry, nary, Opry, parry, query, rotary, slurry, territory, usury, vagary, worry, yakitori, zori!

Thanks, Robbery Raymerry

Source: Author robynraymer

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