Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral - A Word Quiz | Brain Teasers

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1. Example: An automobile + To decay (3 letters, 3 letters) - Car + Rot = Carrot. Answer = Vegetable. Question 1: A nickname for your mother's mother + generic pronoun (4 letters, 2 letters)

Answer: Mineral

Gran + It = Granite. Granite is typically composed of 4 different minerals: quartz, feldspar, mica, and usually hornblende. Because of its ability to support incredibly heavy weights, and its ability to weather the elements well, granite is frequently used in the construction of monuments.

2. A knife that won't cut + a person of Nordic descent (4 letters, 4 letters)

Answer: Animal

Dull + Finn = Dolphin. There are actually 32 separate recognized species of dolphins, 5 of which live in fresh water rivers. Dolphins are known as "conscious breathers", meaning that only one half of the brain enters 'sleep mode' at a time; dolphins literally sleep with one eye open, and will switch periodically throughout their slumber to rest the other half of their brain!

3. A phalange closest to the ground + two wolves do this for life+ 1/3 of water's sign (3 letters, 4 letters, 1 letter)

Answer: Vegetable

Toe + Mate + O = Tomato. The tomato is an interesting vegetable - or is it a fruit? Botanically, the tomato is a fruit, as a fruit is "the edible flesh of a plant covering a seed or seeds." In a horticultural sense, a tomato is a vegetable; it is grown on a annual non-woody plant base, whereas fruits are normally known for growing on a woody non-annual plant (another "oddball" fruit is the strawberry, which also grows on a flowering non-woody plant).

The tomato was legally classified as a vegetable by the United States government in 1893, to allow import taxes to be charged for the incoming consumable. Thus, most Americans know the tomato as a vegetable.

4. To allow + pronoun for you, me, and her together (3 letters, 2 letters)

Answer: Vegetable

Let + Us = Lettuce. Lettuce started its life as a weed growing in and around the Mediterranean basin; the ancient Greeks believed it had sedative properties and would serve it at the end of the meal, to bring on peaceful slumber. This habit was passed on to the Romans, and stood until around 81 A.D., when the Roman emperor Domitian began serving it at a meal's beginning and thus "torturing" his guests as they fought to stay awake for his long-winded speeches.

5. A thin film of amniotic sac covering an infant's head at birth + a conditional word often followed by "then" + to decrease the elevation of a thing (4 letters, 2 letters, 5 letters)

Answer: Vegetable

Caul + If + Lower = Cauliflower. Cauliflower is a member of both the cabbage species and the mustard family. The etymological basis of the word actually means "cabbage flower." Cauliflower is a good source of vitamin A and iron, but has gotten a bad rap; even Mark Twain referred to cauliflower as "nothing but cabbage with a college education."

6. The first part of a rooster's crow + a garment for your scalp + a slippery, aquatic shocker (4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters)

Answer: Animal

Cock + Hat + Eel = Cockatiel. The cockatiel is quite possibly the second-most popular bird pet after the parakeet. The bird's name comes from a Dutch word, "kakatielje" which means "little cockatoo". Native to Australia, the cockatiel is one of approximately 340 members of the parrot family.

7. Singular term for the students graduated from a particular school + abbreviation for Indiana + an uncertain hesitation in speech (4 letters, two letters, two letters)

Answer: Mineral

Alum + IN + Um = Aluminum. Aluminum is a highly ductile silvery-white metal, and is the most abundant metal found in the Earth's crust (although normally in combination with another element, like bauxite). Aluminum is most commonly used in alloys, where it normally adds its ductile, non-corrosive properties to the alloy metal.

8. May be made from tin, steel, aluminum + half a baby's noise + the semi-liquid base for a sauce or gravy (3 letters, 3 letters, 4 letters)

Answer: Animal

Can + Goo + Roux = Kangaroo. A member of the marsupial family, the kangaroo is native to Australia and its surrounding islands. The most popular myth is that the name was provided to Captain James Cook in 1770, when he landed on the north coast of Australia to make repairs to his ship.

A widely-believed myth is that the animal's name is an Aboriginal word meaning "I don't know", but in actuality the name is believed to come from the word gangurru, a word used by an Aboriginal tribe of northeastern Australia.

9. A covert military home base + Freud's primitive subconscious + a suffix for 'relating to' (3 letters, 2 letters, 3 letters)

Answer: Mineral

Ops + Id + Ian = Obsidian. This black volcanic stone has a glassy sheen to its surface, and is frequently used for decoration. In mythological or spiritual terms, obsidian is seen as a stone bringing clarity to see necessary changes, or that allows the bearer to view his own flaws constructively.

10. A German river + an Egyptian god famed for losing 'him'self (5 letters, 6 letters)

Answer: Animal

Rhine + Osiris = Rhinoceros. The rhinoceros has inhabited the Earth in various forms for approximately 60 million years, but now the 5 remaining species are on the endangered species list. The rhino is thought to be the basis for the mythical creature the unicorn, as it is a (somewhat) horse-like creature with a single horn on its forehead.

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Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral - A Word Quiz

Decipher the words described by the clues in each question, AND connect these words together; choose the appropriate group this new word falls under as your answer.

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