Letter Wave 8 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Shrapnel

When they explode, bombs scatter small fragments of metal known as shrapnel through the air at high speed. These fast-moving fragments can cause significant damage to anything they hit, including potentially causing the deaths of anyone standing in the vicinity of the blast.

Answer: Sharpen

Anyone entering any sort of competitive venture would be well-advised to put in lots of practice leading up to the event in order to hone their skills, thereby giving them the best possible chance of doing well.

Answer: Phrase

In honour of the late British TV presenter, who had graced our screens for seventy-five years, a Radio Times poll in 2017 asked the British public to vote for their favourite Bruce Forsyth catchphrase. The clear winner was "Nice to see you, to see you ... nice", which received over half of the votes cast.

Answer: Share

Young children are often taught by their parents that they need to learn to share. As a parent of young children myself, and with a plethora of toys in the house, it always amazes me that my two children seem to want to play with the same toy at exactly the same time!

Answer: Hare

A leveret is defined as being a young hare (generally in its first year). Hares are similar to rabbits, however they are generally larger with longer ears.

Answer: Her

Her, as in "As I was walking my daughter to school the other day, I saw a woman drop her purse on the ground, so I asked my daughter to go and pick it up and give it back to her".

Answer: Hero

Florence Nightingale is considered by many to be a true hero, as she tended to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, and led a team of nurses to improve sanitary conditions at a British Base hospital, thereby saving countless lives that would have otherwise been lost to infection and disease.

Answer: Other

Other, as in "My wife didn't like the look of the jam doughnut I gave her, so she asked if she could have the other one instead. She ended up with the incredibly jammy one, whereas the one I was left with had hardly any jam in at all".

Answer: Hornet

Native to Eastern Asia, the Asian giant hornet is the largest hornet in the world. Unlike honey bees, whose stingers are barbed, and pull out of their bodies, wasps and hornets can sting more than once, with hornet stings being more painful to humans due to the large amount of the organic chemical acetylcholine that their venom contains.

Answer: Shorten

Shorten, as in "Having finally finished his university dissertation, Michael was dismayed when he ran a word count on it, and realised that he needed to shorten it by just over two hundred words in order to meet the "maximum of 12,000 words" criteria that had been set by his professor".