Queues Can Be Quirky Quiz | Word Play

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1. We will start with the word QUEUES. Change one letter and shuffle into a new word which is one of the five boroughs of New York.

Answer: Queens

Queens is part of eastern New York City. It has the most diverse population, with different ethnic groups including Italian, Hispanic, Irish, Greek, Croat, Jewish and Chinese.

2. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word which relates to a horse or characteristics of the horse family.

Answer: Equine

The equine family includes horses, asses, donkeys and zebras. Other groups of animal families include feline, bovine, canine, lupine and avian for cat, cattle, dog, wolf and bird families respectively.

3. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word meaning an Asian fruit similar to an apple and pear.

Answer: Quince

The quince is a tree or shrub with pink flowers and edible golden coloured fruit. They are cultivated to make jam, jelly, and sweet wine with the top producing countries being China and Turkey.

4. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word meaning to be the only one of its kind.

Answer: Unique

This quiz is unique as nobody has created a quiz which is similar. The questions are unique, and so are the choice of answers and interesting information. Work copied from another author is not unique but is instead called plagiarism.

5. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word which is the Italian for number five.

Answer: Cinque

Numbers translate from English into Italian as follows: one (uno), two (due), three (tre), four (quattro) and five (cinque). Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich are five ancient ports along the south coast of England otherwise known as the Cinque Ports.

6. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word meaning a small piece of coloured plastic or metal used as ornamentation.

Answer: Sequin

Sequins are commonly sown on to ballroom dance dresses to give emphasis to the shape of the dancer and the dance movement itself. The number of sequins used can run into thousands, all depending on the sequin size and the amount of material they have to cover.

7. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word that is the plural of a unit of paper quantity.

Answer: Quires

A bale of paper is 5,000 sheets, a bundle is 1,000 sheets, and a ream of paper equals 500 sheets of the same size. A twentieth of that is a quire, equalling 25 sheets. Before metric units of paper came into effect, a quire of paper equalled 24 sheets.

8. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word which describes a holder in which arrows are stored.

Answer: Quiver

There is no definite answer on how many arrows a quiver can hold as they come in various sizes. This quote was taken from Psalms 127:4: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them"

9. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word which is an archaic name for an English gentleman and landowner.

Answer: Squire

Prior to it being the name of an English landowner, squire was used in medieval times to describe the person who would carry the shield and armour for a knight. The term "esquire" is the modern equivalent of squire.

10. Take the last word, change one letter and shuffle into a new word which is the plural for an odd or unusual characteristic.

Answer: Quirks

Everyone has their individual quirks which make them stand out from other people. A habitual sniffler, a fidgeter, people dotting their "i" with a heart, or jumping over the cracks in a pavement. The list of quirky habits can be endless.

Changing from QUEUES to QUIRKY

QUEUES - change a U to an N and reshuffle to make a new word - QUEENS
QUEENS - change an S to an I and reshuffle to make a new word - EQUINE
EQUINE - change an E to a C and reshuffle to make a new word - QUINCE
QUINCE - change a C to a U and reshuffle to make a new word - UNIQUE
UNIQUE - change a U to a C and reshuffle to make a new word - CINQUE
CINQUE - change a C to an S and reshuffle to make a new word - SEQUIN
SEQUIN - change an N to an R and reshuffle to make a new word - RISQUE
RISQUE - change an S to a V and reshuffle to make a new word - QUIVER
QUIVER - change a V to an S and reshuffle to make a new word - SQUIRE
SQUIRE - change an E to a K and reshuffle to make a new word - QUIRKS

Source: Author Plodd

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Queues Can Be Quirky Trivia Quiz

Starting with the word QUEUES, change one letter at a time and reshuffle into a new word. Carry on until you finish the end of the quiz with QUIRKY. All of the answers contain the letters QU.

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