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Drop a Letter 7 Trivia Quiz

Welcome! This is the seventh quiz in the series! Start with a five letter word, drop a letter each time until you reach one letter. Then repeat the process. The interesting information is from Wikipedia. Enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by angikar. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
angikar

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
365,366

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

Plays
1221

Last 3 plays: twlmy (9/10), Guest 64 (10/10), kell217 (9/10).

Question 1 of 10

1. Start with a word of five letters.

A special appearance made by a noted personality in a film.

Answer: (One Word, Five Letters)

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Question 2 of 10

2. Drop a letter and unscramble.

A blunt weapon like the club that has a heavy head on top of a wooden shaft.

Answer: (One Word, Four Letters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Drop another letter.

The card in a deck that is depicted by a single symbol.

Answer: (One Word, Three Letters)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Drop yet another letter.

Abbreviation of circa.

Answer: (One Word, Two Letters)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Drop a last letter.

A computer programming language.

Answer: (One Letter)

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Question 6 of 10

6. Start again with a word of five letters.

A staple food made of dough.

Answer: (One Word, Five Letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Drop a letter.

What we do to a book.

Answer: (One Word, Four Letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Drop another letter.

A colour.

Answer: (One Word, Three Letters)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Drop yet another letter.

A prefix which means 'again'.

Answer: (One Word, Two Letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Finally, drop a last letter.

An irrational number roughly equal to 2.71828.

Answer: (One Letter)

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Oct 21 2024 : twlmy: 9/10
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Start with a word of five letters. A special appearance made by a noted personality in a film.

Answer: cameo

Cameo roles are often without dialogue. Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock and Peter Jackson were famous directors who made films in which they made cameo appearances.

2. Drop a letter and unscramble. A blunt weapon like the club that has a heavy head on top of a wooden shaft.

Answer: mace

The head is usually made of stone and is used to deliver powerful blows. In 'The Mahabharata', Bheem's principal weapon was a mace.

3. Drop another letter. The card in a deck that is depicted by a single symbol.

Answer: ace

An ace is usually the highest or the most powerful card in popular English card games like Hearts.

4. Drop yet another letter. Abbreviation of circa.

Answer: ca

Historians use the term. 'circa' when they are not sure about the exact date of an event but know that it occured sometime around a certain time. For example, the beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization started in ca. 3500 BC.

5. Drop a last letter. A computer programming language.

Answer: C

C was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973. The influence of C is seen in most modern programming languages.

6. Start again with a word of five letters. A staple food made of dough.

Answer: bread

Bread is popular all over the world. There are innumerable varieties of bread. Bread can be eaten with butter, jam, etc.

7. Drop a letter. What we do to a book.

Answer: read

A person needs to be literate in order to read. Children are often encouraged to read books from an early age. This is because reading books is slowly dying out among children due to the advent of video games.

8. Drop another letter. A colour.

Answer: red

Red is the colour of our blood. Our blood is red because the red blood corpuscles contain haemoglobin, an iron-containing pigment that is red in colour.

9. Drop yet another letter. A prefix which means 'again'.

Answer: re

For example, "Do this work again." means the same as "REdo this work."

10. Finally, drop a last letter. An irrational number roughly equal to 2.71828.

Answer: e

E is sometimes called the Euler's number, after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. E is the base of the natural logarithm. The use of e can be found in calculations related to compound interest.

Source: Author angikar

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