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'C' is for.... Trivia Quiz

Another installment of this quiz. I give you a scenario involving a word beginning with 'C' and you guess the answer. Again, it couldn't be simpler than metapartical physics within the quantum concept of nuclear fission. Simple. Enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by kristian88. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
kristian88

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
140,055

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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788

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Question 1 of 10

1. If you were walking down the street in Victorian England, and witnessed a lady dipping into her 'crumenal', what would you expect her to pull out? Hint

Money

Pistol

Umbrella

Hairspray

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Question 2 of 10

2. On a visit to Hungary you witnessed a man participating in a 'csardas'. What was the man doing to arouse your interest? Hint

Stripping

Shouting

Drinking

Dancing

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Question 3 of 10

3. If you were witnessing a man making something with his 'chessel', what would you expect his profession to be? Hint

Undertaker

Brush Maker

Dart Board Maker

Cheese Maker

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the following single named people would you most likely call a 'cantatrice'? Hint

Pele

Geronimo

Aristotle

Madonna

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Question 5 of 10

5. If by chance you were in China and happened to witness a man with a 'cang' around his neck, what do you think he had done to earn this? Hint

Just got married

Been pronounced emperor

Committed a crime

Passed university exams

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Question 6 of 10

6. Where would you most likely see a 'clochard' sleeping? Hint

On the streets

On a prison bunk bed

On a bed of nails

On top of a pole

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the following people would you most likely expect to see with his lips near to his 'codon'? Hint

James Galway

Pierluigi Collina

Dizzy Gillespie

Toots Thielemans

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of the following fish would you most likely see in the act of 'contranatant'? Hint

Sole

Shark

Salmon

Sturgeon

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Question 9 of 10

9. If you were 'cyesolagnic', what type of person would you have a sexual attraction for? Hint

Amputees

Family members

Famous people

Pregnant women

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Question 10 of 10

10. If you had 'caecity' what aid would you most likely have to help you get by? Hint

Hearing dog

False teeth

Wheelchair

Guide dog

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. If you were walking down the street in Victorian England, and witnessed a lady dipping into her 'crumenal', what would you expect her to pull out?

Answer: Money

A crumenal is a purse (pocket-book). It is contained in the dictionary but is now an obsolete word.

2. On a visit to Hungary you witnessed a man participating in a 'csardas'. What was the man doing to arouse your interest?

Answer: Dancing

A czardas is a Hungarian dance that gradually increases in speed to a high tempo. In Hungarian it literally means 'wayside tavern', where the czardas is often danced.

3. If you were witnessing a man making something with his 'chessel', what would you expect his profession to be?

Answer: Cheese Maker

A chessel is a wooden cheese mould, which is not usually used by an undertaker....I hope.

4. Which of the following single named people would you most likely call a 'cantatrice'?

Answer: Madonna

A cantatrice is a professional female singer and I'm sure I have heard Madonna called that before now....or something similar anyway.

5. If by chance you were in China and happened to witness a man with a 'cang' around his neck, what do you think he had done to earn this?

Answer: Committed a crime

For certain crimes in China, offenders are compelled to wear a cang, which is a very broad and heavy wooden collar, as punishment but also humiliation to show he had committed a crime.

6. Where would you most likely see a 'clochard' sleeping?

Answer: On the streets

A clochard is a tramp or vagrant or hobo. It originates from the Latin cloppus meaning lame person.

7. Which of the following people would you most likely expect to see with his lips near to his 'codon'?

Answer: Dizzy Gillespie

A codon, besides being a scientific term for a polypeptide, is also the mouth of a trumpet.

8. Which of the following fish would you most likely see in the act of 'contranatant'?

Answer: Salmon

Contranatant is swimming upstream. Salmon swim upstream near the end of their lives to return to the place where they were born ... and then they die there.

9. If you were 'cyesolagnic', what type of person would you have a sexual attraction for?

Answer: Pregnant women

Cyesolagnia is the sexual attraction of pregnant women. Cyesis being the medical term for being pregnant.

10. If you had 'caecity' what aid would you most likely have to help you get by?

Answer: Guide dog

Caecity is the medical terminology for blindness.

Source: Author kristian88

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