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Drop a Letter Ladder 34 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: 6 mins.

Author
eburge

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
369,460

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
552

Question 1 of 10

1. Kicking off this ladder is a 10-letter word which might be used to refer to someone who isn't friendly or, perhaps, a divorce that doesn't end with both parties on good terms. What would this word be?

If it helps, solve some of the other clues and come back to this later.

Answer: (One Word - 10 letters)

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Question 2 of 10

2. What 9-letter word might mean an unevenness or disequilibrium? Well, drop a letter from the previous word and rearrange what's left to find out.

Answer: (One Word - 9 letters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. If you're itchy, you might put this sort of lotion on the affected area. If you take the previous word, subtract a letter and jumble up the remainder, you'll get which 8-letter word which fits this clue? Alternatively, you might find it as a form of zinc oxide.

Answer: (One Word - 8 letters)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Heading down the ladder, we reach a person whose red blood cell count is a little low. What 7-letter word would be used to describe such a person? Be careful - I want the British English spelling.

Answer: (One Word - 7 letters)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Fancy going to see a film? Well, which 6-letter word would be the place where films are shown?

Answer: (One Word - 6 letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. Feeling hungry? Our American friends might called it "ground meat", but we're looking for another word for it. At Christmas, you might chow down on a couple of these pies filled with fruit and spices. What 5-letter word are we looking for here?

Answer: (One Word - 5 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Quite simply, this word is not yours. Nope. It belongs to me. It's what 4-letter word?

Answer: (One Word - 4 letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. We're looking for another name for adult males in this question. It's only 3 letters long. What is it?

Answer: (One Word - 3 letters)

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Question 9 of 10

9. What 2-letter word is a unit of typography, double the width of an "en"?

Answer: (One Word - 2 letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. And now, Bond, we reach the bottom of this ladder. Oh, you're not James Bond? Well, I was just pretending to be his superior, anyway. Famously played by (among others) Judi Dench in the films, what single letter pseudonym for the head of MI6 are we looking for here?

Answer: (One Word - 1 letter)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Kicking off this ladder is a 10-letter word which might be used to refer to someone who isn't friendly or, perhaps, a divorce that doesn't end with both parties on good terms. What would this word be? If it helps, solve some of the other clues and come back to this later.

Answer: unamicable

To be amicable is to be friendly or kind. Someone who is unamicable would therefore be the opposite: impolite, antagonistic, not a nice person. A divorce may be amicable if both the parties are on good terms with one another, though an unamicable divorce would be one in which the parties are not.

2. What 9-letter word might mean an unevenness or disequilibrium? Well, drop a letter from the previous word and rearrange what's left to find out.

Answer: imbalance

If one side of a set of scales is heavier than the other, then you have an imbalance. Having a chemical imbalance (usually of hormones) is a medical suggestion put forward as a way of possibly explaining some mental conditions and their causes.

Answer: calamine

If we're talking about the mineral, calamine may also be known as hemimorphite. Calamine lotion is an anti-pruritic (that's anti-itching to you and me) and, indeed, contains the zinc-based mineral.

Answer: anaemic

Aside from being a condition involving a red blood cell deficiency, someone may also be described as anaemic if they seem rather weak or listless. It's an accurate description of me after any sort of exercise.

5. Fancy going to see a film? Well, which 6-letter word would be the place where films are shown?

Answer: cinema

The word cinema is derived from the word cinematograph. The Greek prefix kinemat- relates to movement (from which we also get the word 'kinetic'), while -graph refers to something pictorial or written. Cinematography, therefore, is the movement of pictures.

Answer: mince

For the uninitiated, a mince pie might sound like a savoury item of food. As one lifts a mince pie to their mouth, eagerly awaiting a meaty, gravy-y taste, the taste of fruit and spices would be a bit of a shock to the system. I know it was to me.

7. Quite simply, this word is not yours. Nope. It belongs to me. It's what 4-letter word?

Answer: mine

If, perhaps, you own a particular excavation site, you could say, "That mine is mine." Alternatively, this would also work if you're indicating that an explosive device belongs to you.

8. We're looking for another name for adult males in this question. It's only 3 letters long. What is it?

Answer: men

Contrary to the popular saying, men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus. They are from Earth. I'm sorry I had to be the one to say it.

9. What 2-letter word is a unit of typography, double the width of an "en"?

Answer: em

The em is the width of a typographical character that changes depending on the size of the typeface. Typeface sizes are measured in points, so an em in 12-point size would be 12 points wide. Its origins can be found in the capital M, as it was the widest character in a typeface. The en is calculated as being half an em and therefore also changes with the typeface's point size.

Answer: m

M can also be used to represent moles in chemistry (the concentration of a particular solution), 1000 in Roman numerals, the prefix mega- (meaning one million as in megabyte), and motorways in the UK (such as the M25 which encircles London and is notorious for its traffic congestion).

Source: Author eburge

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