Triplet Word Connections Trivia Quiz

Answer: book

The hint refers to what a judge does when he or she sentences someone as fully as the law will allow a guilty person to be sentenced. The expression is, "The judge threw the book at him".

A "handbook" is book that provides information, such as a list of facts on one particular topic or a set of instructions for operating or building one particular item. Examples would be an employee's handbook from a particular place of employment and "The Professional Bartender's Handbook".

A "pocketbook" is a small women's handbag or folding case for storing money, papers, and other personal items. It can also be a cheap, small paperback book.

A "cookbook" is a book that contains recipes and instructions for cooking specific items. Mesopotamian tablets from around 1700 BC represent some of the earliest known cookbooks.

Answer: hole

The hint refers to the phenomenon referred to as a "black hole".

A "buttonhole" is typically a slit made in a piece of clothing for the insertion of a button and for the purpose of fastening. However, a "buttonhole" may also refer to a boutonniere or to the action of detaining someone through the use of conversation.

A "wormhole" is hole bored into something, such as a piece of wood or a piece of fruit, by a worm or the larva of an insect. However, it is also a theoretical connection between two different points in time or space or both, with the connection providing a miraculously shorter route between the two points than would be expected from the relative perspective of a human being conditioned by life on earth.

An "eyehole" is a small hole made in an item, such as a curtain or a mask, for the purpose of looking through while remaining covered or hidden. It can also be a small hole in an item for the purpose of inserting something through it, such as the eye of a needle.

Answer: belt

The hint refers to how people were a "belt" around their waists to hold their pants up.

A "fan belt" is a rubber-like belt in a motor vehicle that transfers the spinning motion from the drive shaft to the radiator fan as well as other items, such as an alternator. In most contemporary cars, one long serpentine belt is usually used rather than a series of belts.

A "wheat belt" refers to a country's or continent's section where various grains are successfully or bountifully grown and harvested, usually very fertile land highly conducive to agriculture. In North America, the Wheat Belt would include primarily the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and the states of Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.

A "black belt" is usually a long cloth belt worn around the waist of a student of martial arts. It typically represents that the one who wears such a belt has earned a degree of the highest expertise in that particular martial art. Other uses of the term "black belt" are a region of Alabama and Mississippi containing dark soils very conducive to the growing of cotton and regions of cities in the United States that are primarily populated by African-American people. Langston Hughes wrote a very poignant poem entitled "Visitors to the Black Belt" that criticizes white America for its faulty perception of life for African Americans.

Answer: line

The hint refers to a queue of people. Many grow highly impatient waiting in a line at a grocery store, post office, etc.

A "laughline" is a wrinkle along the side of the mouth or the side of an eye that is visible when one laughs but becomes more lasting or permanent as one ages. The term may also refer to the punchline of a joke or to a statement in a series of scripted dialogue designed to elicit laughter.

According to most dictionaries, a "timberline" is the boundary beyond which no trees grow either because of altitude (such as up a mountain) or because of temperature (such as in the Arctic reaches of the earth). However, a Wikipedia article argues that this is not correct. The author of this article claims that what most people call a "timberline" is really a "tree line" because a "timberline" is "the line where trees form a forest with a closed canopy".

A "clothesline" is any rope, wire, twine, or other such substance stretched between two points and suspended above the ground so that wet clothes may be hung from them or draped across them for drying in the air. A Hills Hoist is a special compact rotary clothes line developed by Lance Hill from Australia around 1945.

Answer: work

The scientific formula for calculating "Work" is "W = Fd".

"Clockwork" refers to the inner machinery, mechanism, or workings that are responsible for the running of a mechanical device. However, many also use the term to refer to the precise and regular work or activity of a particular machine or human being. The title of Anthony Burgess's book "A Clockwork Orange" is supposed to refer to a living organism that is mechanically controlled (so to speak) from within--a brainwashed human being, someone who appears to be human on the outside but is an automaton on the inside.

"Needlework" refers to the act of sewing by hand or the act of embroidering. It can also refer to an item made by sewing or embroidering.

"Patchwork" refers to an item that has been made by several pieces of fabric of varying colors, shapes, and sizes that have been stitched together (e.g. a patchwork quilt). The term is also used by some to refer to any item that appears to be comprised of a variety of parts.

Answer: staple

The hint refers to the piece of metal ejected from an office stapler. "Sheets" refers to "sheets of paper".

A "staple food" is a comestible eaten by the people of a particular country or region with such regularity and in such large quantities that it becomes a significant part of the diet of those people. For example, wheat and corn are staple foods for the United States.

A "staple puller" is any device or tool that is used by people to remove staples from an item or a stack of items that have been stapled. Some people refer to a "staple puller" as a "staple remover", but farmers who use staples to attach barbed wire to fence posts definitely use a large device they call "staple pullers". Building barbed wire fences is no easy job, I can tell you.

A "staple gun" is usually a larger machine than a stapler, but still handheld, that is used to fasten larger staples into fabrics, wood, or other harder materials. It is often made with a handle and trigger that supply more force than the typical stapler. Some are powered by the muscles of a human hand and wrist; however, most contemporary ones are electrically operated, either by a battery or alternating current. Staple guns also make frequent appearances in horror films as they provide a rather gruesome and horrific means for killing.

Answer: ring

In some wedding ceremonies, the bride and the groom exchange rings to wear on their fingers as a symbol of their eternal love for each other.

A "ringleader" is an individual who initiates or leads a particular activity, usually one of an improper, illicit, or illegal nature. The word dates back to around the early 1500s and is most likely a derivative of the practices of dancing in the late Middle Ages. Groups of people dancing were said to dance in a ring or be a ring of dancers. Thus, a "ringleader" may have originally been a reference to the leader of the group of people who were dancing.

"Ringworm" is a common fungal infection of the skin or nails. The infection is called "ringworm" because the fungus or fungi often cause a red, itchy circular rash at the site of the infection. Ringworm can occur at any site on the human body, including the scalp, hands, groin, and feet.

A "ringtone" is the sound a mobile phone makes when its owner is receiving an incoming call. The first ringing bell to alert a telephone owner that his or her telephone was ringing was an actual kind of hammer hitting an actual bell, a technique developed by Alexander Graham Bell himself. Interestingly, Apple's original ringtone for its iPhone was the sound of a wooden mallet striking wooden keys. The ringtone is referred to as "Marimba".

Answer: cat

An English idiomatic expression is "He/She let the cat out of the bag", which means he or she exposed something that was supposed to have been kept a secret.

A "catbird" is an avian species found in the genus Ailuroedus, which translates to "cat voice" or "cat singer". The group of birds are so named because their call sounds somewhat like the noise of a cat.

A "cattail" is a plant typically found in wetlands, swamps, and marshes. It has long, flat leaves and reaches heights of three to six feet. Its unique long flowering spike that looks more like a bratwurst than a cat's tail is the source of its name.

On rare occasions, the term "catwoman" may be used by some to refer to any woman dressed in a cat costume or to an eccentric older woman who lives alone with several cats she keeps in her home. However, most associate the term with the villain Catwoman who frequently appears in DC's Batman comic book titles. While she was originally perceived as a villain, she has often been portrayed as a more complicated character, one who occasionally helps to accomplish good despite her career of theft. She is also frequently portrayed as Batman's love interest. Catwoman's secret identity is Selina Kyle, and she first appeared in "Batman" #1 in 1940. The character of Batman himself appeared earlier in "Detective Comics" #27 in 1939. Both comic book titles are still being published.

Answer: fire

"Combustion" is part of the definition of "fire". "Combustion" is the result of the chemical reaction that leads to what humans refer to as a "fire".

A "fireplace" is, of course, a framed opening at the base of a chimney in which people build a fire to warm a room or a house. The Old Shute Barton House in England has one of the largest fireplaces in the world; its hearth is ten feet deep, and is said to be able to hold two roasting oxen at once. The house was built in 1380.

A "fireball" is typically any item that looks like a ball of fire, usually some item in space, such as the sun, a star, a meteor, or a comet. However, "fireball" may also be used to refer to ball lightning, the center of a nuclear explosion, or a ball of combustible material hurled at an enemy during a battle or a siege. It may also refer metaphorically to a highly energetic, ambitious, or excitable person.

A "firefly" or "lightning bug" is a winged beetle capable of bio-luminescence. Typically, they are seen around dusk flashing a yellow, orange, or yellow-green light from their lower abdomens. Their larvae also produce light; thus, they are often referred to as "glowworms".

Answer: heart

Figuratively, a heart is said to be broken when a person feels grief.

"Heartburn" is a form of indigestion with the symptom of a burning sensation in the chest due to the regurgitation of acid into the esophagus. Consistent heartburn that is left untreated can cause a narrowing of the esophagus, esophageal cancer, asthma, and tooth erosion.

"Heartwood" is the dense inner non-living part of a tree trunk. It is usually darker and denser than the outer wood containing sap and water and is, therefore, more useful for creating timber for construction and woodwork.

"Heartland" refers to any region of land that is located centrally within a territory, state, nation, etc. and is considered vital to the larger land as a whole. The "heartland" of a nation is usually an area symbolically and sentimentally important to that nation's people, located within the nation so that it is more easily protected, and is responsible for the maintenance of the nation's people.