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All Boggled Up II Trivia Quiz

My second quiz all about short, but obscure, words which appear often on the 'Boggle' grid, due to the commonness of the letters they use (zyzzyva doesn't count).

A multiple-choice quiz by konig. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
konig

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
139,491

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
1120

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. A bane is someone who is... Hint

A celebrity

Poor

A nuisance

Insane

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Question 2 of 15

2. What profession would be interested in a raster? Hint

Doctor

Truck driver

Chemist

Television repairman

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Question 3 of 15

3. What is an anise? Hint

Extinct lizard

South American tree

Mediterranean plant

Type of swallow

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Question 4 of 15

4. Don't get steered wrong on this one, but what is a stere? Hint

Electronic device

Fruit

Monkey

Unit of measurement

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Question 5 of 15

5. What would it mean if something were to peal? Hint

Ring

Give off odor

Rot

Break

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Question 6 of 15

6. What does it mean to bate? Hint

Enhance

Lure

Lessen

Praise

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Question 7 of 15

7. Tare has a couple of meanings. One of them is a weed plant that typically grows in cornfields. What else can tare be? Hint

A measurement

Small conductor wire

Glacial river

Moisture-laden cloud

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Question 8 of 15

8. I wrote this one: What does the noun rote mean? Hint

Found by luck

Promised

Memorized

Excluded

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Question 9 of 15

9. What profession deals with the word tort? Hint

Biologist

Lawyer

Construction worker

Historian

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Question 10 of 15

10. What does it mean to dint? Hint

Pray

Passionately kiss

Leer

Damage

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Question 11 of 15

11. Oftentimes money used in foreign countries can be translated into very short and common-lettered words. Which of these is not a form of currency? Hint

Sene

Lire

Toea

Rute

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Question 12 of 15

12. You probably already know that keen means sharp. But, only the keenest of you know that keen is also a verb, and that it means to... Hint

Peek

Drown

Infer

Wail

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Question 13 of 15

13. What's a ewer? Hint

Tropical fruit

Pitcher

Tin plate

Animal breeder

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Question 14 of 15

14. What is cerate? Hint

Youthfulness

A cream

A dry powder

Hardened wood

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Question 15 of 15

15. What does it mean to rive? Hint

Construct

Learn

Quarrel

Break

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. A bane is someone who is...

Answer: A nuisance

A bane is someone or something that is a nuisance or causes death. It comes from the Old English 'bana', a slayer or cause of death.

2. What profession would be interested in a raster?

Answer: Television repairman

A raster is a pattern of lines produced by scanning an electronic beam, as on a television screen. It comes from the German word 'raster' which means screen.

3. What is an anise?

Answer: Mediterranean plant

An anise is a plant with yellow-white flowers and licorice flavored seeds which are used in medicine and flavoring.

4. Don't get steered wrong on this one, but what is a stere?

Answer: Unit of measurement

A stere is equal to one cubic meter of volume. This comes from the Greek word 'stereos' which means solid.

5. What would it mean if something were to peal?

Answer: Ring

To peal is to ring, as in the bells pealed loudly.

6. What does it mean to bate?

Answer: Lessen

Bate means to lessen or reduce, almost the exact same thing that abate means. They came from the Middle English words 'abaten' or 'baten' which had the same meaning. Bate can also mean to flap the wings wildly, as in a falcon.

7. Tare has a couple of meanings. One of them is a weed plant that typically grows in cornfields. What else can tare be?

Answer: A measurement

A tare is the weight of a container or wrapper that is deducted from something's gross weight, to find its actual weight. This is often used for trucks, which are weighed before they are loaded. Tare can also be a verb, meaning simply to find the tare of something.

8. I wrote this one: What does the noun rote mean?

Answer: Memorized

Rote is memorization by means of repetition with little or no comprehension. It comes from the word routine. A rote is also an ancient stringed instrument.

9. What profession deals with the word tort?

Answer: Lawyer

In civil law, tort is any wrongful act done willingly, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach of contract. It comes from the Medieval Latin 'tortum' which means twisted.

10. What does it mean to dint?

Answer: Damage

To dint means to put a dent or dents in, or damage. It can also mean by force or effort, normally used in the phrase 'by dint of'.

11. Oftentimes money used in foreign countries can be translated into very short and common-lettered words. Which of these is not a form of currency?

Answer: Rute

Sene are currency used in Western Samoa, and are equal to 1/100 of a Samoan tala. Toea are currency used in Papa New Guinea and are equal to 1/100 of a New Guinean kina. Lire are the standard currency used in Turkey. The singular form of lire is lira, which can also be pluralized liras. As far as I know, rute is not a word.

12. You probably already know that keen means sharp. But, only the keenest of you know that keen is also a verb, and that it means to...

Answer: Wail

To keen means to wail or lament loudly, normally for the deceased. The word may come from the Celtic word 'koinyo', meaning to wail; it may also come from the Hebrew word kinah.

13. What's a ewer?

Answer: Pitcher

An ewer is a jug or pitcher that was commonly used to bring water to a washtub, before faucets(taps) became the norm.

14. What is cerate?

Answer: A cream

Cerate is a hard, oily, wax-based solid formerly applied to the skin directly or on dressings. It comes from the Latin word 'cera', which means wax. Irate, orate, urate, grate and crate are all also words. And while erate is not a word (as far as I know), aerate, berate, cerate and derate are words. As you can see, rate is a very good word to find in 'Boggle'.

15. What does it mean to rive?

Answer: Break

To rive means to break apart by means of blows or cleaves. It comes from the Middle English word 'riven', which has a similar meaning. By the way, zyzzyva is a tropical weevil that is harmful to many tropical plants.

Source: Author konig

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