Pleonasms Trivia Quiz

Answer: white light

The term white light is used in optics. It is a type of light that contains wavelengths of all the colors in equal amounts. Daylight is an example of white light.

Of all of these rhyming choices, white light is the only one that is a pleonasm. Although many marks we see are darker than surrounding areas, such as brown marks on the skin, not every mark is particularly dark or even darker than the surrounding areas. Pots don't have to be hot in order to be called a pot; a pot is just a container used to cook food on the stove or in the oven. Real deal is a common phrase that is used to denote people or things that are genuine or worthy.

Answer: male boy

Of course, all boys are males and all girls are females. Statistics show that boys do better at math than girls. The reason is because boys tend to have better spatial skills. Since 1972, the average SAT math score for boys is 530, while for girls, it is 499.

Answer: burning fire

Fire is used to make things warm or hot as well as for cooking food. To start a fire and keep on burning, it needs a fuel (such as wood or gas), oxygen, and an ignition source. Fires produce heat and light from chemical reactions between fuel and oxygen. Prehistoric humans used it for warmth, protection, and eventually learned to use it to cook their food.

Of all these things listed as choices, fire is the most useful. Ice is used to cool things down like a drink as well as applying to injured area to reduce pain and swelling. Snow is used to get water from it when it melts. When frozen it can be used for entertainment like building a snowman, provide a surface to sled on, etc., and snow is more unwanted than useful like when streets covered in snow that have to be plowed. There are no practical uses for molten lava except for scientific studies and demonstration, but it can get more use when lava solidifies, such as building roads and making blocks for a building.

Answer: canine dog

Canine dogs can be used by police in many ways, such as searching for criminals, drugs, and explosives using the ultra-strong sense of smell, as well as for patrol. The trained dogs used by police are called K-9 units. The German Shepherd dog is the most common breed used by police because it is one of the most intelligent breeds.

Cats are not used by police and neither are birds that often fly away from them. Wolves are just too violent and would attack the criminal once found.

Answer: greenish teal

Teal, as in greenish teal, is named after a duck called the common teal, while all other choices have the colors named after flowers, except for reddish pink, which is a hue on the pink-red scale. The common teal inhabits Eurasia, breeding in Scandinavia and Russia, and has teal-colored feather in its underlining. As for colors, teal is bluish green, goldenrod is dark orangish gold, pink is a very light shade of red, and violet is bluish purple.

Answer: athletic sport

Playing sports would provide the best workout as it potentially involves running, tackling, stunts, and other activities, but due to its potential intensity, people commonly get injured from playing sports. Football can be one of the most intense and injury-prone sports. On the upside, athleticism is good for their body and can promote the longevity of the person's life by reducing the susceptibility of diseases including heart attack, and can also help them lose weight.

Restful sleep lies on the other side of the spectrum in terms of activity. Eating ingestion and spy watching fit somewhere in the middle of the activity spectrum.

Answer: mortal death

The average person in the United States lives to be about 78 years, according to a 2016 study; in Japan the average life expectancy was almost 84 years. Women (81.2 years) tend to live longer than men (76.3). Some people believe in life after death, such as rebirth, so death may not be the eternal end for a being.

Everyone is destined to die, therefore they're mortal. Days are destined to turn to night, but it is not the permanent end, unlike an individual, as days and nights go in cycles. People don't need useless trash, so they just put it in the garbage and send it to the landfill. Living life is, you know, the state of being alive that'll eventually end as mortal death.

Answer: immensely vast

All of these choices are very great in degree or duration, but immensely vast is the one that does not necessarily extend forever. People used to think that the universe is endless, eternal, and infinite in size, but now it is thought that the universe is only immensely vast.

It is believed by scientists the universe was created by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, the universe is believed to be 93 billion light-years across, but the value is still finite.

Answer: edible food

Edible food is one of the things that a living being, including humans, must occasionally consume in order to survive. Food is what gives energy needed for the body to function and stay alive. The food pyramid contains the instructions of how to have a good diet. The rows are sorted by how much a person should eat. Fruits and vegetables are shown in the fourth row, meat in the second row along with fish and eggs, and non-beneficial foods, including frozen ice cream and chocolate brownie, is shown in the apex of the food pyramid that says 'eat only small amounts of foods high in fats and sugars.'

All the other choices are also edible but are not essential. If you want a good diet, you should rarely eat the specific foods mention in the choices, while instead eat fruits, vegetables, meats, and starchy foods such as bread and potatoes often.

Answer: cosmic universe

The cosmic universe is the grandest, or largest, place there is. The universe, also known as cosmos, encompasses everything known to exist, such as galaxies, black holes, stars, planets, life, water, you name it.

The global world can be thought of as a big place where it encompass all of humanity, but is only an incredibly tiny speck compared to the size of our universe, and the domestic home is one tiny portion of the global world. It is roughly two trillion times smaller in area than the world. Stadium arena is whole lot bigger than home but still tiny compared to the whole world. Stadium arena is spacious enough for a sporting event and have enough seats to accommodate tens of thousands of spectators.