Aye, Eye, I Multiple Choice Quiz | Language Use

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1. Which letter sounds the same as a verb meaning to exist, or an insect which produces honey?

Answer: B

The verb is to be. The insect is a bee.

The second letter of the alphabet is used as the international car registration for Belgium, and as the chemical symbol for the element Boron.

2. A large body of (usually salt) water, to look at, or the Italian for yes all sound like a single letter of the alphabet. Which letter is it?

Answer: C

A sea is a large body of salt water. To see is to look at. Si is the Italian for yes.

The third letter of the alphabet is used for the chemical symbol for carbon, as the Roman numeral one hundred, and also as the name of a computer programming language.

3. Which letter sounds the same as a noisy colourful bird of the crow family?

Answer: J

A jay often has blue feathers on its wings and tail, and a harsh chattering call. It is used colloquially to refer to a silly person, hence the term jaywalking for wandering across a road without due regard for the traffic.

The Toronto Blue Jays are a baseball team.

The tenth letter of the alphabet is the international car registration letter for Japan, and also the symbol for a joule - a unit of work.

4. A letter of the alphabet sounds like the word formerly used for a length measurement of textiles. Which one is it?

Answer: L

The word ell is derived from the same root as ulna, since the measurement was linked to the length of the human arm. It was normally 45 inches in England and 37 inches in Scotland.

The twelfth letter of the alphabet is used as an abbreviation for a lake. It is also the Roman numeral fifty.

5. A verb indicating an obligation to pay, an exclamation of surprise and water in French all sound like which letter of the alphabet?

Answer: O

Owe comes from the Old English 'agan' meaning 'have it as an obligation'. Oh is the exclamation, and eau is the French word for water.

The fifteenth letter of the alphabet is used as the chemical symbol for the element oxygen, and to denote a common blood type.

6. Which letter sounds like urine or a small round green vegetable?

Answer: P

A colloquial word for urine is pee. The vegetable is a pea.

The sixteenth letter of the alphabet is used as the international car registration for Portugal, as the chemical symbol for the element phosphorus and as a sign denoting a place to park a car.

7. A line of people or a collection of quizzes waiting for an editor both sound like which letter?

Answer: Q

Queue was also used to describe a plait of hair worn at the back of the head.

The word comes from the Latin 'cauda' meaning 'tail'.

The seventeenth letter of the alphabet can be used as an abbreviation for a question or for a queen in a deck of cards.

8. A support for a golf ball, a drink made by infusing dried leaves and the seventh note of the tonic sol-fa scale all sound like a single letter. Which one is it?

Answer: T

A golf ball rests on a tee. Tea is also used to describe a light meal eaten with a cup of tea. The seventh note of the scale is 'te' or 'ti'. Many people will remember Julie Andrews describing it as a 'drink with jam and bread' in the film "The Sound of Music".

The twentieth letter of the alphabet is the symbol for a tesla - the unit of magnetic flux density. It is also the international car registration for Thailand.

9. Which letter sounds the same as a female sheep, a poisonous tree, often found in churchyards, the pronoun used for the second person, or a Burmese title of respect for a man?

Answer: U

A female sheep is a ewe. The poisonous tree is a yew. The second person pronoun is 'you'. U is the Burmese equivalent of Mr.

The twenty-first letter of the alphabet is used as the chemical symbol for the element uranium, or for the international car registration for Uruguay.

10. Which letter sounds like a word which asks the question - for what reason?

Answer: Y

Why comes from the Old English 'hwi' or 'hwy' meaning 'by what cause'.

The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet is used as the chemical symbol for the element Ytterbium or for the Japanese Yen.

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Aye, Eye, I Trivia Quiz

Aye, eye, I! Yes, see, me! Some words are so simple that they sound like a single letter. Can you identify the letters which sound like the words indicated?

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