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High Five! Trivia Quiz

This test is all about words made up with five letters like "snake", "house", "brand" and the like. Think it's easy? Take the quiz to find out...

A multiple-choice quiz by wanna_be19. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
wanna_be19

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
251,173

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
14 / 25

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Question 1 of 25

1. What is an ACKEE? Hint

a horse

a key

a tool

a tree

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Question 2 of 25

2. Who is your mother's BAIRN? Hint

Your dad

You

Her father

God

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Question 3 of 25

3. When someone asks you to COOCH, he/she probably wants you to... Hint

Take the center stage and dance

Leave the room faster than someone can say, "Shoo!"

Close your eyes and kiss him/her

Smile like you've never smiled before

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Question 4 of 25

4. What does a DHOBI do? Hint

Clean your roof

Cook your food

Wash your clothes

Babysit your baby brother

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Question 5 of 25

5. What is an ESKER? Hint

Spoiled milk

Crushed leaves

Deposited sand

Stacked cement

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Question 6 of 25

6. What is a FERIA? Hint

A festival

A liner

A game

A ritual

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Question 7 of 25

7. What would you most likely do with a GOWAN? Hint

Keep it safe in your tool shed

Fry it with garlic and serve it with roasted beef

Give it to someone on Valentine's

Place it carefully in an ATM machine

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Question 8 of 25

8. Who is the father of a HINNY? Hint

A horse

A bunny

A hamster

A chimpanzee

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Question 9 of 25

9. What is an INVAR made of? Hint

Nickel

Feathers

Rayon

Magma

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Question 10 of 25

10. In Arabic language, what famous place would be considered a JEBEL? Hint

Mt. Fuji

Nile River

Angkor Wat

Undersea Kingdom of Atlantis

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Question 11 of 25

11. What do you do with a KIBBE? Hint

Read it

Play it

Avoid it

Eat it

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Question 12 of 25

12. Your liver is in your body. Where can you most often find a LIVRE? Hint

In a cemetery

In the bank

In an aquarium

On a river

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Question 13 of 25

13. What is a MATIN? Hint

A morning prayer

A solvent

A night jacket

A metal alloy

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Question 14 of 25

14. Who is a NAIAD? Hint

A retired soldier

A female swimmer

A new employee

A serpent trainer

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Question 15 of 25

15. Where can you, most typically, find an ORLOP? Hint

The White House

McDonalds

The Black Pearl

Hogwarts

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Question 16 of 25

16. Where can you find a PROOL (an anagram of orlop in the previous question)? Hint

Nowhere

On a camera

In an aquarium

Outside Earth's atmosphere

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Question 17 of 25

17. If a queen is respected, what about a QUEAN? Hint

No, she's a witch!

Yes, she's the county's first queen!

Yes, she's the princess!

No, she's a prostitute!

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Question 18 of 25

18. Which of these can you associate a RHUMB with? Hint

A parachutist

A pirate

A priestess

A pharmacist

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Question 19 of 25

19. If you SKIRL, what type of voice would you have? Hint

Soft

Nothing

Hoarse

Shrill

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Question 20 of 25

20. What movie thriller would sound less catchy if renamed, "The THORP"? Hint

"Saw"

"The Village"

"The Exorcist"

"The Grudge"

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Question 21 of 25

21. Which of the following characteristics should an ULEMA have, first of all? Hint

Versatility

Patience

Knowledge

Wrath

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Question 22 of 25

22. Where would you usually hear the word, "VANIR"? Hint

Roman mythology

The Bible

Norse mythology

Quran

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Question 23 of 25

23. Who most likely WRESTs? Hint

A boy who forces a cork out of the bottle

An actor who reads his script while solving crosswords

A politician who vows impossible promises

A girl who braids her mother's hair

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Question 24 of 25

24. What is the correct way to use the word XERIC? Hint

My aunt packed for a trip to Finland because the XERIC told her that she will win that raffle.

Jared claimed that he's not nervous about the oratorical contest but he became XERIC when he went up the stage.

When the XERIC sea becomes wild, the ship will have a very high chance of sinking.

Drought will soon hit and the XERIC land will kill all plants that dares to sit upon it.

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Question 25 of 25

25. Which of the following fairy tale characters is about a YOKEL, obviously? Hint

The beasty prince in "Beauty and the Beast"

The priest and sacristan on "The Golden Goose"

The giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk"

The country mouse in "The City Mouse and The Country Mouse"

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is an ACKEE?

Answer: a tree

All definitions for the following words are taken from "Webster's New World Dictionary; Third College Edition"

ackee n.

a W African tree (Blighia sapida) of the soapberry family, widely grown in the tropics

its fruit, poisonous if not ripe, and containing large, black seeds with fleshy, white arils

a dish made by cooking these arils: often combined with salted cod as in Jamaica.

Also called "akee."

2. Who is your mother's BAIRN?

Answer: You

Bairn n. [Scot]

a son or daughter; child

3. When someone asks you to COOCH, he/she probably wants you to...

Answer: Take the center stage and dance

Cooch n. [Slang]

a female exhibition dance with sinuous hip movements, etc.; belly dance

4. What does a DHOBI do?

Answer: Wash your clothes

Dhobi n. [Hindi]

in India, a person who does laundry

5. What is an ESKER?

Answer: Deposited sand

Esker n. [Ir]

a winding, narrow ridge of sand or gravel, probably deposited by a stream flowing in or under glacial ice

6. What is a FERIA?

Answer: A festival

Feria n. [LL]

in ancient Rome, holidays or festivals

Eccles.
any weekday, except Saturday, that is not a feast day or vigil

7. What would you most likely do with a GOWAN?

Answer: Give it to someone on Valentine's

Gowan n. [Scot]

any yellow or white field flower; esp., the English daisy

8. Who is the father of a HINNY?

Answer: A horse

Hinny n.

the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey

9. What is an INVAR made of?

Answer: Nickel

Invar

trademark for a steel alloy containing approximately 36% nickel, used for making precision instruments and thermostatic elementsbecause of its low coefficient of thermal expansion

10. In Arabic language, what famous place would be considered a JEBEL?

Answer: Mt. Fuji

Jebel n. [Ar]

a hill or mountain: often used in Arabic place names

11. What do you do with a KIBBE?

Answer: Eat it

Kibbe or kibbeh n. [Ar]

a Near Eastern dish of finely ground lamb mixed with wheat and pine nuts and baked, or sometimes eaten raw

12. Your liver is in your body. Where can you most often find a LIVRE?

Answer: In the bank

Livre n. [Fr]

a former French money of account (discontinued in the late 18th cent) orig. equivalent in value to a pound of silver

13. What is a MATIN?

Answer: A morning prayer

Matin n. [Early ME]

[pl., usually with sing. v.]
a. a R.C.Ch., the first of the seven canonical hours, orig. recited between midnight and dawn, but often at daybreak, usually joined with lauds (matins is now called the "Office of Readings")
b. Anglican Church, morning prayer

14. Who is a NAIAD?

Answer: A female swimmer

Naiad n.

Gr & R Myth., any of the nymphs living in and giving life to springs, fountains, rivers, and lakes

a girl or a woman swimmer

15. Where can you, most typically, find an ORLOP?

Answer: The Black Pearl

Orlop n. [Now Rare]

the lowest deck of a ship with four or more decks

"The Black Pearl" is the famous ship on "Pirates of the Carribean" series. "Hogwarts" is the wizardry school on "Harry Potter" series. "McDonalds" is a fastfood restaurant and "The White House" is where the American president live.

16. Where can you find a PROOL (an anagram of orlop in the previous question)?

Answer: Nowhere

In the dictionary, there is no such word as prool.

17. If a queen is respected, what about a QUEAN?

Answer: No, she's a prostitute!

Quean n.

[Archaic]
a. a bold, brazen woman; hussy
b. a prostitute

[Scot.]
a girl or unmarried woman

18. Which of these can you associate a RHUMB with?

Answer: A pirate

Rhumb n.

rhumb line

any of the 32 points of a mariner's compass

Anyone directing a seagoing vessel or aircraft in its voyage might use a rhumb. (Pilots use the term to refer specifically to a course that follows a surface straight line, as opposed to one following a great circle route.)

19. If you SKIRL, what type of voice would you have?

Answer: Shrill

Skirl vt., vi. [Scot]

to sound out in shrill, piercing tones, as a bagpipe

n.

a shrill sound, as of a bagpipe

20. What movie thriller would sound less catchy if renamed, "The THORP"?

Answer: "The Village"

Thorp or thorpe n.

a village; hamlet: now mainly in place names

21. Which of the following characteristics should an ULEMA have, first of all?

Answer: Knowledge

Ulema n.pl. [Turk]

Muslim scholars or men of authority in religion and law, esp. in Turkey

a council or college of such men

22. Where would you usually hear the word, "VANIR"?

Answer: Norse mythology

Vanir n.pl. [ON]

Norse Myth., a race of gods who originally fight with but are later reconciled with the Aesir

23. Who most likely WRESTs?

Answer: A boy who forces a cork out of the bottle

Wrest vt.

to turn or twist; esp., to pull or force away violently with a twisting motion

to take or extract by force; usurp; extort; wring

to distort or change the true meaning, purpose, use, etc. of; pervert; twist

24. What is the correct way to use the word XERIC?

Answer: Drought will soon hit and the XERIC land will kill all plants that dares to sit upon it.

Xeric adj.

of, pertaining to, or having dry or desertlike conditions

xerophytic

In the choices, the aunt probably saw a PSYCHIC, the sea is probably SCENIC, and Jared is probably SICK.

25. Which of the following fairy tale characters is about a YOKEL, obviously?

Answer: The country mouse in "The City Mouse and The Country Mouse"

Yokel n.

a person living in a rural area; rustic; country bumpkin: a contemptuous term

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