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Quiz about What Can Be Done with the Pigs

What Can Be Done with the Pigs? Quiz

Ten PIGS have escaped from the FunTrivia barnyard and are hiding in words. Can you round them up and place letters around or beside them to create new words? Each answer contains the consecutive letters P-I-G.

A multiple-choice quiz by gable. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
gable

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
381,926

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
168

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Question 1 of 10

1. This PIG is a French mushroom.

Answer: (One Word (10 letters))

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Question 2 of 10

2. This PIG is is a place in Paris.

Answer: (One word (7 letters))

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Question 3 of 10

3. This PIG is a pithy witty statement (usually a quote from another author) found at the beginning of a book or poem.

Answer: (One word (8 letters))

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Question 4 of 10

4. This PIG is a tree product often combined with basil, Parmesan cheese and olive oil to make pesto.

Answer: (One word (7 letters))

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Question 5 of 10

5. Harry Potter's friend Ron Weasley had a letter-delivering owl with a PIG name. Can you remember it?

Answer: (One word (10 letters))

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Question 6 of 10

6. There is a PIG hiding in the back of your throat protecting the entrance to your larynx. Can you identify it?

Answer: (One Word (10 letters))

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Question 7 of 10

7. The orchestral tone poem "The Pines of Rome" was written by a PIG-named Italian composer in 1924. Do you know his name?

Answer: (One Word 8 letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which glamorous porker is Kermit the Frog's on and off girlfriend?

Answer: (One or two words (4, 5 or 5))

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Question 9 of 10

9. A Brit may get water from a tap in the kitchen or bathroom, but what PIG does the same thing in a Yankee sink?

Answer: (One word (6 letters))

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Question 10 of 10

10. The final PIG is the basis for artist colors.

Answer: (One word (7 letters))

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This PIG is a French mushroom.

Answer: champignon

Mushrooms are a delicious fungus. Especially good for fun guys and gals who love Fun Trivia.

2. This PIG is is a place in Paris.

Answer: Pigalle

Place Pigalle is a public square located in the 9th Arondissement (district) in Paris. It is also a name that has been chosen for restaurants in Seattle and San Francisco.

3. This PIG is a pithy witty statement (usually a quote from another author) found at the beginning of a book or poem.

Answer: epigraph

One example is the quote from French novelist Honore de Balzac which Mario Puzo inserted in the introductory pages of "The Godfather": "Behind every fortune there is a crime." The original quote was in Balzac's novel "Pere Goriot" (Father Goriot) although Puzo's epigraph is not an exact translation of the original.

4. This PIG is a tree product often combined with basil, Parmesan cheese and olive oil to make pesto.

Answer: pignoli

Pine nuts really do come from pine trees. There are pine nuts in all pine cones, but only a limited number of species have nuts large enough to be worth collecting and eating.

5. Harry Potter's friend Ron Weasley had a letter-delivering owl with a PIG name. Can you remember it?

Answer: pigwidgeon

The owl replaced Ron Weasley's first pet, the rat called Scabbers who proved to be Peter Pettigrew, in the books by JK Rowling, and the movies made from the books.

6. There is a PIG hiding in the back of your throat protecting the entrance to your larynx. Can you identify it?

Answer: epiglottis

The epiglottis helps with swallowing and prevents the wrong things from going down your trachea (windpipe).

7. The orchestral tone poem "The Pines of Rome" was written by a PIG-named Italian composer in 1924. Do you know his name?

Answer: Respighi

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist. He wrote historically inspired tone poems and also a few operas.

8. Which glamorous porker is Kermit the Frog's on and off girlfriend?

Answer: Miss Piggy

Both Kermit and Piggy were designed by the late great puppeteer Jim Henson.

9. A Brit may get water from a tap in the kitchen or bathroom, but what PIG does the same thing in a Yankee sink?

Answer: spigot

Faucet is another term used to describe the device which controls the exit and flow of a liquid from a pipe, hose, or cask.

10. The final PIG is the basis for artist colors.

Answer: pigment

Artist pigments come from various sources including chemical and botanicals. Better paints have more pigment and less binder or filler.

Source: Author gable

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