A Letter Mission in the Night, into the Darkness Multiple Choice Quiz | Brain Teasers

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. There he is, a hooded stranger! "Here! You are appointed to deliver this important set of letters. You have to start at once." "But", you stammer, "it is already getting late, and..." In vain. He is already gone. Therefore you stumble into the absence of light or illumination. In fact into the ... what?

Answer: Darkness

Nowadays a complete darkness is a rare thing, due to the mass of artificial lights from houses, street lamps and other sources. Astronomers complain about this so called light pollution, which make it difficult to watch the starry sky.

They miss darkness.

2. You walk away, the weight of the letters resting heavy on your shoulders. What is the strange noise you are hearing? Somebody is using power tools used for sanding wood, an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor? And this in the middle of the night? Curiously you move closer to take a look at it. Sadly you drop a letter in one of the machines. Only seven are left.

Answer: sanders

Belt sanders and disc sanders may be known to most of us. Belt sanders are usually used in the beginning, because their impact on the material is enormous. Also you have to cope with a lot of sawdust.

3. Bemoaning the loss of such a beautiful letter, you walk on. Suddenly things happen to you. You are dangling in the air! You have been caught in or as if in a trap! You have been:

Answer: snared

Trapping animals is a very old method to catch them, either dead or alive. Snares are usually used to catch small animals like rabbits or squirrels. They are outlawed in most of Europe.

4. Phew. That was close. Having freed yourself with a Swiss Army knife, you sit down to recover. One letter has dropped, only five are left now. Perhaps it would be more reasonable, more sound in mind to use another path?

Answer: Saner

Psychologist Erich Fromm published this in "The Sane Society "1955:

"It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth... Just as there is a folie � deux there is a folie � millions. The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane."

Something that is proven by witch burning and the the Holocaust.

5. Still resting you decide to make a pause and light a fire. Suddenly a strange smell is added to the expected one of burning wood. It happened again! One letter is too close to the fire with the effect that it begins to wither or parch from exposure to the heat!

Answer: sear

Other definitions of "to sear" is "burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color" or "become superficially burned".

In 2004 the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany suffered from a fire. 50.000 volumes were burned, 62,000 volumes suffered damages, be it by the water used to stop the fire or seared by the fire.

6. You decide to move on. Carefully you carry the three letters left to you. Was that a twig breaking close to you? Using your sense organ for hearing and equilibrium you try to make it out.

Answer: ear

Some facts about ears, leaving out anatomy:

As mentioned in the bible, Peter cut off the ear of Malchus, when Jesus was arrested. Jesus healed this again.

Henry VIII was king when following laws of vagrancy were decreed: first offence: three days in the stocks, second offence: cropping (cutting of the ear), if you survived it and made a third offence: hanging.

In Shakespeare Hamlet Claudius poured poison in the ear of Hamlet's father.

And Vincent van Gogh made an attempt to cut of his ear or parts of his ear.

7. Nearly unaware, you have reached the goal. There he is: the god of the cross words. The ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk! Thankfully he isn't mad about the lost letters. He just takes one, the second vowel of the alphabet. Leaving you with the two letters, which form his name:

Answer: Ra

Ra, also called Re, the Egyptian sun god. Ra, with the head of a hawk and a sun disc on his head. Ra, who was said to have created men from his tears. Pharaohs called themselves son of Ra, showing his and most of all their importance.

Ra, loved god of cross word creators, due to his ability to fill small gaps with his two letters.

8. Good news, you are on your way home. The old Egyptian even promised you some new letters, too, starting at once. With it you are able to form the name of an animal representing "Aries", a sign of the Zodiac.

Answer: ram

A ram is a male sheep. It is the sign of the star sign Aries (March 21-April 21) Aries is a fire sign. The ram is used in remembrance of a winged ram with golden fleece that helped a Phrixus to escape being sacrificed. Thankfully his first act in freedom was to sacrifice the animal. The fleece was later stolen by Jason.

As I read somewhere Aries have courage but are prone not to finish their work. I am Aries. I am not courageous but I finished writing this quiz. So the stars may be wrong.

9. Gosh, you are getting tired. A kingdom for a horse. Ah, there is one! And an extra letter in the saddlebags. And due to the fourth letter, you can write out that you are now sitting on a female equine animal, which is called what?

Answer: Mare

The horse family: a mare is the female, the male is a stallion and the offspring is a foal. Horses made news in Europe in 2012, due to the fact that horse meat was declared as other kind of meat and made its way into stuff like Lasagne.

From Shakespeare's Richard III, 1594:

KING RICHARD III:
"A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

The real Richard III's (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) remains were found in 2012 in Leicester, where he was buried after his death in the Battle of Bosworth. A forensic facial reconstruction was made and Richard was described as "warm, young, earnest and rather serious" looking.

10. There you are, home at last. People cheering at you! They are even ringing the bells. Strange, the bells sound more like your alarm clock. Hey, you have been sleeping! This was only a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep! Just a ... what?

Answer: dream

Back to the old Egyptians: Joseph, the one out of the bible who suffered from sibling rivalry, ended up at the court of the Pharaoh due to the fact that he was able to interpret dreams.

And in 1974 the Supertramp song "Dreamer" made its way into the charts.

Source: Author heidi66

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor spanishliz before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.

A Letter Mission in the Night, into the Darkness Quiz

I give you a clue for each answer. The next word will have one letter less as we travel on. The remaining letters have to be rearranged. The hints will hopefully help.

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>

NEXT>