Puns and Word Play Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bill of Rights

This woeful pun combines the famous United States Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments to that nation's equally famous Constitution - and the mouthpiece of a duck, which is known as its bill, an alternative name for its beak.

Answer: Office of the Mayor

The word play combines the word "mayor", who is the highest ranking official in the local governing body of cities, towns or shires - and a "mare", a female horse. Mare is a homophone for mayor. Obviously, that aggrieved horse would want to see the mayor mare to complain about the city council.

Answer: Ration

Thanks to the Scrambled Eggheads team member Moonraker2 for this pun! An ion is an atom with either a negative or positive electrical charge, and a rat is a rodent. Together they form the word ration, a word on which this pun is based, and which is a controlled allocation of food, goods or other resources.

Answer: Igloo

This word play combines the word "igloo" which is a shelter built of compacted snow once greatly favoured by the Inuit people of Canada's colder region - and, if you look at it from the perspective of pasting photographs into an album, a word that sounds a little like "I glue".

Answer: Saint Nick

Saint Nicholas was a fourth century Greek saint, who was the Bishop of Myra in today's modern Turkey. Saint Nicholas, or Saint Nick, as far as this word play goes, is another name for that much loved children's figure of Santa Claus. The word "nick" is applied here to the Christmas thief, because in that context, it is also slang for stealing.

Answer: Dogma

A member of the Scrambled Eggheads, Jomarion, gave us this hilarious pun. Dogma, as relating to religion, is any faith's official system of tenets and beliefs. As far as this word play goes, "dog-ma" is also the Priest's female canine that has just given birth to puppies. She was their ma, in other words.

Answer: Intense

Intense is a word meaning excessive, full on, over the top, severe or exhausting. The pun rests on the sleeping shelters for campers - tents - because those hardy camping souls retire for the night "in tents" to have their much needed rest.

Answer: Below

A bass-baritone, with his beautifully rich and deep voice, has the second lowest of the vocal range in singing. He can usually reach up to the lower register of a tenor at a push, or comfortably descend to the bass as well. So if that accomplished musician was told to "be low" by the conductor of a choir or opera, he has been asked to sing the lower notes as well.

Answer: Shampoo

Scrambled Eggheads team member, Austinnene, came up with this hilarious pun. Why any piece of drama or comedy would require a piece of cow manure as a prop is of course debatable, but that isn't the issue here. The directions for the play called for same, and as plonking a real piece of cow dung on the stage would probably contravene all sorts of health regulations, our canny stage director has gone to a novelty shop and purchased some sham (fake) poo (manure) instead.

Answer: Constable

Another word for a prison inmate, or any criminal for that matter, is a conman, or "con" for short. Prison inmates, like anyone else, eat their meals at tables, so this word play combines the two categories, con and table, to give us constables, or "cons' table".