It Gets Better Trivia Quiz

Answer: Horrible

I had eaten some boiled okra as a young child, and the taste was horrible!

Typically, horrible is a word with a negative connotation. I cannot recall using it with a smile on my face. But do not worry, the quiz gets better!

Answer: Broiler

The broiler of a stove cooks at a high temperature and relatively quickly. Broilers are also special grills and gridirons used to cook meats and fish. Ours is an outdoors grill with a special lid and is well contained, and great for cooking salmon.

Broilers are also the young chickens which are perfect for similar cooking methods, including grilling, roasting and barbecuing.

Answer: Boiler

A boiler is typically a device of some sort that uses fuel to heat water. There are other types of boilers, but for the average person like myself, a boiler heats water.

Also, a less commonly used definition is the person who heats the water, perhaps a chef ready to boil pasta. They would, in reference to the heating water, be considered a boiler.

Answer: Oriel

Where I live, there are unfortunately hardly any oriel windows. These projections from a wall are typically found on the second floor, but can be found on the first level as well. The windows are common in Arab culture.

If you are familiar with the television show "Full House", the opening scene showing the outside of the Tanner residence displays the oriel window quite nicely.

Answer: Role

An actor or actress is cast for a character in a movie or a play, and the character they play is considered their role. My favorite role is Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, but that's another quiz!

An RPG, as many online gamers will recognize, stands for Role-Playing Game. In these games, you are, essentially, an actor portraying the in-game character (playing the role of said character). Then there is the MMORPG, which is the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.

Answer: Loser

Second place sounds like a great way to finish a race, but when there are only two contestants, it is, unfortunately, also last place. There is the winner of the race, who beat all the others, and the loser of the race is the one who held up the rear.

Of course, no one likes being considered the "loser" of a race, so I prefer to always look at it as "second place" if there are two, "third place" if there are three, etc.

Answer: Morsel

A morsel of food is a small taste, just a nibble, of said food. I typically view a morsel as something delicious, something you savor. I would never savor a "morsel" of okra, I would consider it a nasty chunk.

In baking, chocolate chips are often used, and sometimes, they are referred to as morsels. I do love Hershey's semi-sweet morsels baked in my favorite brownie mix!

Answer: Morales

The state of your psychological well-being as being confident and cheerful is known as morales (or morale). If someone does not feel like they can do something, we typically try to encourage them by "boosting their morales". A few encouraging words or some friendly thoughts can increase that person's psychological confidence to help them through whatever difficult task it was they thought they couldn't do.

Answer: Removals

Sometimes, a person of high authority in a government does not do as good a job as expected, and for whatever reason, may be dismissed from their position. This is known as a removal of office. Of course, if more than one have been dismissed, they could be collectively known as "removals".

Answer: Marvelous

Remarkable, amazing, stunning, wonderful, brilliant!

All words above are synonyms of marvelous, which is something extraordinary, or causing great wonder. Billy Crystal joined "Saturday Night Live" in 1984, and in that year, Fernando Lamas was introduced. Fernando often used the phrase "You look mahvelous!"

A much more exciting term than horrible, don't you think?