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The Letter Dropper V Trivia Quiz

Here we go again. Yet another in an endless line of Drop a Letter quizzes. Good luck to you!

A multiple-choice quiz by ozzz2002. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
ozzz2002

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
359,617

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
560

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Question 1 of 10

1. Start with a 12-letter word that means the act of protecting and conserving items for future generations. These can range from buildings, books, antiques and even foodstuffs.

Answer: (12 letters, starts with P)

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Question 2 of 10

2. I will make it easy on you for this question. Simply drop the first letter and do not anagram anything. You should end up with a word than can mean a booking of a hotel room, or a doubt about the wisdom of some proposed action.

Answer: (11 letters, does NOT start with P)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Drop one and mix them up. Hopefully you will find a word that means to exert yourself beyond your normal limits, even to the point of hurting yourself. Trying to reach that chocolate bar on the top shelf of a tall cupboard might result in this.

Answer: (10 letters, starts with O)

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is another word for a cutting tooth on a saw? Or perhaps a jagged edge? There is a 9-letter word hiding in the previous question that will give the answer.

Answer: (9 letters)

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Question 5 of 10

5. The medical profession likes to use fancy words to dazzle their patients, like calling a black eye a suborbital haematomia, or a heart attack a myocardial infarction. What word would be used to the front side of a patient?

Answer: (8 letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. Drop another one. What word, with Latin roots, also is used to describe an area of land, or the features of that area?

Answer: (7 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Drop another letter and you will find part of your eye.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Drop another one, stir them all around, and you can tutor a mode of transport.

Answer: (5 letters)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Drop a letter. What four-letter word mean to declaim, to rattle on, to talk a lot and say little, or to harangue. It is used as both a noun and verb.

Answer: (4 letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which animal is part of the taxalogical family named Muridae? James Cagney may be able to help you.

Answer: (3 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Start with a 12-letter word that means the act of protecting and conserving items for future generations. These can range from buildings, books, antiques and even foodstuffs.

Answer: preservation

Preservation has a very similar meaning to conservation.

Answer: reservation

Perhaps you have a reservation about making a reservation at a hotel on an American Indian reservation. There must be a phobia for that!

Answer: overstrain

Trying to do silly Word Dropper quizzes at 3am could also overstrain your little grey cells.

4. What is another word for a cutting tooth on a saw? Or perhaps a jagged edge? There is a 9-letter word hiding in the previous question that will give the answer.

Answer: serration

There is an item called the 'Blade of Serration' used in the video game 'World of Warcraft'. Its vital statistics are-
"Item Level 146
Binds when picked up, One-Hand Dagger
177 - 331 Damage
Speed 1.80
(141.2 damage per second)
+30 Stamina
+24 Critical Strike (1.09% @ L70)
Increases attack power by +44.
Durability 80 / 80
Requires Level 70" (Source wowhead.com)

I have no idea what all that stuff means, but it sounds like something that a toddler should not possess.

Answer: anterior

The opposite to anterior is posterior. Both words have Latin roots- 'ante-' means 'before, preceding', whilst 'post-' is 'behind, after'.

6. Drop another one. What word, with Latin roots, also is used to describe an area of land, or the features of that area?

Answer: terrain

The Latin root is 'terrenum', which means 'of the earth'.

7. Drop another letter and you will find part of your eye.

Answer: retina

The retina is where you will find the rods and cones, receptors that are colour- and light-sensitive.

8. Drop another one, stir them all around, and you can tutor a mode of transport.

Answer: train

I guess you could also coach a coach, but the letters are all wrong.

9. Drop a letter. What four-letter word mean to declaim, to rattle on, to talk a lot and say little, or to harangue. It is used as both a noun and verb.

Answer: rant

I used to have a boss that could do all of those things at once!

10. Which animal is part of the taxalogical family named Muridae? James Cagney may be able to help you.

Answer: rat

Cagney is often quoted as saying "Mmm, you dirty rat!", but didn't. He did, however, say "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!" in the 1932 movie, 'Taxi!'.

Source: Author ozzz2002

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