(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right
side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
Questions
Choices
1. Pointed sticker
Lancelet
2. Reading, writing and talking?
Landlord
3. Pointy fishy burrower
Landseer
4. Elementary, my dear reader?
Lancers
5. Men with nine-foot weapons
Language
6. Property renter
Lantern
7. Window cutter?
Lanthanum
8. Animal portrayer
Landau
9. Light provider
Lance
10. Bavarian carriage
Lancet
Select each answer
Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Pointed sticker
Answer: Lance
A lance is a weapon used in war, consisting of a wooden shaft with a sharpened metal tip. It is most often used by men on horse-back - in the army in the hands of Lancer regiments of light cavalry, and by medieval knights in jousting competitions.
Another meaning of lance is to puncture a blister or abscess.
2. Reading, writing and talking?
Answer: Language
Language may be defined as the expression of ideas by words or written characters.
3. Pointy fishy burrower
Answer: Lancelet
Lancelet is the name given to small slender fish-like creatures that live in temperate or tropical waters. About 5 to 8 cm long, they are transparent, and burrow themselves vertically in sand, head up.
4. Elementary, my dear reader?
Answer: Lanthanum
One of the rare earth metals, lanthanum is soft and silvery in colour. Atomic number 57, atomic weight 139. Unlike the spelling of aluminium/aluminum it ends -um rather than -ium even in UK English!
5. Men with nine-foot weapons
Answer: Lancers
Lancers are light cavalry, named for their main weapon, a nine-foot lance. Originally lancer regiments rode horses, but nowadays they tend to use light fast armoured vehicles, but maintaining a traditional role of scouting.
6. Property renter
Answer: Landlord
A person who rents out property to someone else is a landlord.
7. Window cutter?
Answer: Lancet
The word lancet describes a sharp delicate knife, used in surgery. A type of window often seen in churches is called a lancet window, being long and narrow with a pointed upper end.
8. Animal portrayer
Answer: Landseer
Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) was a famous English painter who specialised in portraying animals. Some of his efforts are so popular that copies of them are almost clichés. The picture of a stag on a Scottish hilltop, "Monarch of the Glen" is probably the most well-known.
9. Light provider
Answer: Lantern
In architecture, an erection, often a tower, on the top of a building, or a dome, whose purpose is to allow additional light into the building, is called a lantern.
The word is also used to describe a smaller device for providing light, usually hand-held, and lit within by a candle or oil.
10. Bavarian carriage
Answer: Landau
Landau is a town in Bavaria, Germany, where a particular type of horse drawn carriage was first built in the 18th century. The landau has a top that may be opened and thrown back. The word is often used nowadays to describe a car with a similar facility, otherwise known as a convertible.
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