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Drop a Letter Ladder 33 Trivia Quiz

Starting with a long word, drop one letter and anagram if necessary to make a new word. Rinse and repeat to reach a short word at the end.

A multiple-choice quiz by eburge. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
eburge

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
364,556

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
565

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Question 1 of 10

1. Let's kick off with an 11-letter word, which might describe a neighbour's tree whose branches are hanging over the fence into your garden. What might this tree be doing? Alternatively, this word might also mean intruding or impinging.

Answer: (One Word - 11 letters)

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Question 2 of 10

2. Drop a letter from the previous answer and rearrange the letters (if necessary) to find this word. What 10-letter noun is something that causes cancer? Typical examples include asbestos and ultraviolet radiation.

Answer: (One Word - 10 letters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Take the previous answer. Drop a letter, scramble what's left and see if it fits this clue: what nine-letter word describes a state of unknowing or a lack of understanding? Some might call it bliss.

Answer: (One Word - 9 letters)

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Question 4 of 10

4. I think you've got the hang of it by now. I'll stop reminding to you to drop a letter and rearrange the remainder (if you think that's what you need to do). Now, give me an eight-letter word that refers to a water-based sport whereby you (and possibly some other people too) sit in a boat and paddle?

Answer: (One Word - 8 letters)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Jingle jangle goes the spare change in my pocket. Incidentally, that might lead you to this seven-letter word, which describes money that isn't banknotes. What is it?

Answer: (One Word - 7 letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. One for the mathematicians now. Which admittedly uncommon six-letter word refers to something that doesn't have or doesn't form an angle?

Answer: (One Word - 6 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Nearly there. Step into the shadows and give me the five-letter-long shortened version of a word which means hidden, concealed or otherwise unnoticed. This shortened version isn't in particularly common usage but its full version certainly is.

Answer: (One Word - 5 letters; remember, not the full word!)

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Question 8 of 10

8. See those little images on your computer's desktop that represent files or programs or shortcuts? Well, give me the four-letter word that means one of those.

Answer: (One Word - 4 letters, singular)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Almost at the end! Stay positive! Speaking of which, what three-letter word describes an atom that has either lost or gained an electron?

Answer: (One Word - 3 letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Wasn't this quiz just out of this world? I thought it was. So far out of this world that it's on one of Jupiter's moons, and how fitting that it should be the last word in this ladder. Give me the name of one of Jupiter's "Galilean moons" and we'll call it day here.

Answer: (One Word - 2 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: encroaching

If you find your neighbour's tree does overhang into your property, it's well within your rights to lop off the encroaching branches, particularly if it poses a risk to your property. Always check with the local council first, though.

Answer: carcinogen

While cigarettes can lead to cancer, the nicotine contained within has not been definitively proven to be a carcinogen in and of itself. Some forms of nicotine, however, are classified as carcinogens, such as N-Nitrosonornicotine.

Answer: ignorance

If ignorance really is bliss, then I'm on Cloud 9 when it comes to music these days. I don't need any of this hippity-hoppity nonsense.

Answer: canoeing

While they're both similar, kayaking differs from canoeing in the sense that the kayak is closed (while canoes are open) and propelled by a double-ended paddle.

5. Jingle jangle goes the spare change in my pocket. Incidentally, that might lead you to this seven-letter word, which describes money that isn't banknotes. What is it?

Answer: coinage

Coinage could also mean creating a new word. For instance, no one was in the least bit interested with my coinage of the word "stucklegronk". Just because I haven't worked out what it means yet doesn't mean it's a rubbish word. It's fun to say.

6. One for the mathematicians now. Which admittedly uncommon six-letter word refers to something that doesn't have or doesn't form an angle?

Answer: agonic

You could probably work out what "agonic" meant if you looked at the word "diagonal". "Dia-" means "across" and "-gon" bit refers to the angles. The diagonal is the line that goes across a shape connecting two angles. The "a-" prefix means "without", so you can work out that "agonic" means "without angles". Nifty, huh?

Answer: incog

Incognito as a word has had a bit of a resurgence in recent times. Users of the Chrome web browser might have noticed that it has an incognito mode, designed to not save browsing history, amongst other things. Firefox's Private Browsing and Internet Explorer's InPrivate mode functions in much the same way.

8. See those little images on your computer's desktop that represent files or programs or shortcuts? Well, give me the four-letter word that means one of those.

Answer: icon

Of course, icons aren't just limited to computers. There are cultural icons, iconic landmarks and people who trick you into giving them your eyes. No, wait, they're eye cons.

9. Almost at the end! Stay positive! Speaking of which, what three-letter word describes an atom that has either lost or gained an electron?

Answer: ion

Alkali metals, located on the left side of the periodic table, are more likely to give their outer electrons and become positive ions. Likewise, elements on the right of the table are more likely to accept these electrons and become negative ions.

Answer: io

Jupiter's Galilean Moons (named as such because they were discovered by the famed astronomer Galileo Galilei) are the planet's four largest natural satellites. Named after Zeus' lovers in Greek myth, they are Io, Callisto, Ganymede and Europa.

Source: Author eburge

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