Drop a Letter 12 Trivia Quiz

Answer: parish

A parish is a subdivisional unit of a diocese. The head of a parish is a parish priest. He is helped by curates.

Answer: sharp

A sharp object such as a pin or a knife can cut or pierce something because of its small, cross-sectional area. A force applied to it is concentrated in a small area so the pressure, or force per unit area, is greater. A sharp object has a thin edge or a fine point.

Answer: harp

The strings in a harp are at an angle to the soundboard. Harps are usually made of wood and are triangular in shape. The pitch of each string can be changed by a peg at the top. The strings were made of gut in the past, which has been replaced by nylon today.

Answer: rap

Rap is characterized by its recitation-like, rhythmic, fast utterance of words. Rap often deals with ongoing social or political issues. Eminem and Jay Z are two famous rappers.

Answer: AP

An arithmetic progression is a series where the difference between any two consecutive terms remains constant. An AP is in the form a, a+d, a+2d, a+3d and so on where a is the first term and d is the common difference. The simplest series in arithmetic progression is 1, 2, 3, 4 ... and so on.

The expression for summing an AP is [(n/2)*{a+(n-1)d}], where a and d have the same meanings as previous and n is the number of terms.

Answer: a

Some words where 'a' stands for without are 'asexual' (non-sexual) and 'abiotic' (not biotic). 'A' is also a prefix meaning 'without' in Indian languages like Hindi and Bengali.

Answer: ad

The years after the birth of Jesus Christ are marked as 'AD', or 'Anno Domini'. They are alternatively marked as 'CE', or 'Common Era'. The years before the birth of Christ are marked as 'BC', i.e., 'Before Christ'. Alternatively, they are marked as 'BCE', or 'Before Common Era'.

Answer: aid

During situations of war, social or political unrest, natural or other disaster, countries often offer medical, monetary aid to the suffering country. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are two organizations which provide monetary aid to countries.

Answer: maid

A maid usually performs jobs like cleaning, dusting, etc. Maids are more common in developing countries than developed countries.

Answer: amide

In the simplest amide, one hydrogen atom of ammonia gets replaced by an acyl group (RCO). More complex amides are formed from derivatives of primary and secondary amines. They are weak bases.