Night Flight Quiz | Letter Quizzes

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1. Starting with the word "Night". Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a number.

Answer: eight

Letter change. Night-Eight.

The lemniscate, a sideways figure of eight, is used as the mathematical infinity symbol. Besides this similarity, there is no apparent connection between the two.

2. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a measure of the distance from bottom to top of an object.

Answer: height

Letter added. Eight-Height.

Average height figures across the world usually float around a 10% difference between males and females. In Nigeria, it is as low as 4%.

3. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a measure of the force exerted on an object by a gravitational field.

Answer: weight

Letter changed. Height-Weight.

Weight is commonly mistaken for mass. In simple words and for most uses, mass is an absolute property while weight is a relative one, best outlined by applying Newton's first law: weight = mass x gravitational acceleration. The gravitational acceleration differs from one gravitational field to another. For example, your weight on the moon is 1/6 your weight on Earth. I'd still stick to a healthy diet though.

4. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a word meaning a living being.

Answer: wight

Letter dropped. Weight-Wight.

Despite the fact it was recently disputed, in all likelihood, this word has no etymological connection to the little Isle of Wight.

5. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a form of electromagnetic radiation.

Answer: light

Letter changed. Wight-Light.

You always see the sunset a few minutes after is actually happened. Light is carried by photons. A photon leaving the sun's outermost boundary will travel about 8 minutes before it reaches your retina. How romantic is that?

6. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a plant disease.

Answer: blight

Letter added. Light-Blight.

Leaving geopolitical analysis aside, the great Irish famine of the mid-19th century was a combined result of a potato blight epidemic and the fact that Irish people strongly relied on potatoes for their diet, thus making it a single point of failure.

7. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a bay formed by a bend in a coastline.

Answer: bight

Letter dropped. Blight-Bight.

Bight can also refer to any curved feature, for example that of a rope.

8. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a word which has synonyms such as brilliant, luminous and shiny.

Answer: bright

Letter added. Bight-Bright.

In case you too wondered if there is an etymological connection between the word "bright" and the southern English town of Brighton; Brighton comes from "Beorhthelmes tūn" (Beorhthelm's farmstead), and "Beorhthelmes" probably means "bright helmet". The word "bright" is derived from the proto-Germanic "beorht".

9. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a word which means appropriate or correct.

Answer: right

Letter dropped. Bright-Right.

Most left-handed people I met resent most connotations of the word "right".

10. Add, drop or change a letter in order to create a word which describes a sensation caused by an alarming situation.

Answer: fright

Letter added. Right-Fright.

One more letter change and we're there. Fright-Flight.

"Night Flight" (1931) is also the name of Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry's second book. It is an enchanting depiction of his experience as an aviator of mail planes in South America in the 1920s. Guerlain's fragrance "Vol de Nuit" (1933) was issued as a homage to this book and its author.

Source: Author gentlegiant17

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Night Flight Trivia Quiz

Cruise from the word "Night" to the word "Flight" by means of adding, dropping or changing one letter at a time.

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