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Cryptic No. 2 Trivia Quiz

I have tried to make this a little easier as my first effort was much harder than I realised. Try it and have fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by Fiachra. Estimated time: 8 mins.

Author
Fiachra

Time
8 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
142,504

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
825

Question 1 of 10

1. Go back up part of the Spanish Steps for forty winks.

Answer: (3 letters)

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Question 2 of 10

2. Can you discover the UK mail among the flower pots ?

Answer: (4 letters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Behead gravel for the composer of the 'Bolero'.

Answer: (Remember Torville and Dean?)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Put the ale into the post for one of the twelve.

Answer: (7 letters)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Look inside 'Whoopi rated with Teach' for a corsair? .

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. The fourth note in a scale, when singing solfeggio, is confused in the colliery and goes hungry.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. This saint can shrink and disappear completely.

Answer: (Fisherman)

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Question 8 of 10

8. A South Western irritation can become a cane.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Foam sounds like this member of Feudal society?

Answer: (4 letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Put father in a sealed container for a country.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Go back up part of the Spanish Steps for forty winks.

Answer: Nap

Go back over part of the SPANish. Nap.

2. Can you discover the UK mail among the flower pots ?

Answer: Post

Post is an anagram of pots and, is a common name for mail in the UK.

3. Behead gravel for the composer of the 'Bolero'.

Answer: Ravel

Take away the 'G' and you are left with Ravel.

4. Put the ale into the post for one of the twelve.

Answer: Apostle

Ale and post together make an anagram of apostle. There were twelve of them originally.

5. Look inside 'Whoopi rated with Teach' for a corsair? .

Answer: Pirate

WhooPI RATEd with etc.

6. The fourth note in a scale, when singing solfeggio, is confused in the colliery and goes hungry.

Answer: Famine

Fa is a note and mine is another word for colliery = famine.

7. This saint can shrink and disappear completely.

Answer: Peter

If something peters out it becomes less until it disappears altogether.

8. A South Western irritation can become a cane.

Answer: Switch

Itch is another word for irritation. Sw + itch = switch, a thin flexible stick used for punishment in the not too distant past.

9. Foam sounds like this member of Feudal society?

Answer: Serf

Foam, as everyone knows is the surf on a line of breakers, while a serf was the lowliest worker in Feudalism.

10. Put father in a sealed container for a country.

Answer: Canada

Da is a short form of father, can is a sealed container, hence Canada.

Source: Author Fiachra

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