Words For Containers Trivia Quiz

Answer: non-condensed non-evaporated UHT milk

In British and Australian usage, cans of beans, tuna, pineapple are also called tins. For drinks "tin" is not normally used in England, but in Australia, where a beer is often referred to as an ice cold tinnie.

"The can" occasionally refers to either the toilet or prison.

The title of Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" illustrates the American usage of "can" and "canning" for food products.

Answer: a canister

An ampoule contains a single measured amount of medicine e.g. for an injection.

Answer: a vacuum flask or thermos bottle

A jug is for milk or water that has to be measured exactly.
A flagon is for wine and similar alcoholic drinks.
A percolator contains coffee while it is being made.
For a vacuum flask American English would use vacuum bottle or thermos. Thermos is originally a proprietary name or trademark.

Answer: a drum

This type of drum is a cylindrical container of metal or plastic whose volume is around 200 litres (UK 44 gallons, US 55 gallons). While oil is usually transported in drums, the standard measure when discussing oil prices is the barrel, which has a volume of 42 US gallons.

A carboy, which holds between 4 and 60 litres, is usually made of glass or (more recently) plastic. Jerrycans are large metal containers with flat sides used for storing or carrying liquids such as fuel or water. Five gallons is a standard size for jerricans. Buckets have open tops, and would not be suitable for transport.

Answer: milk

Decanting wine (etc.) is not just done to have a more elegant and decorative container in which to present the wine, it is also a technique to avoid any unwanted dregs being served and an excellent way to give the wine an opportunity to "breathe" and "come to itself".

Answer: an urn

An urn can be a large round decorative container on a stem used for decorative purposes in a garden. A lidded urn may be used for holding a large amount of drink such as tea or coffee. The urn is of course also the lidded container for holding the ashes of a dead person.
Keats uses the word urn in his poem "Ode On A Grecian Urn" in the more archaic meaning of "vase".

Answer: toothpaste

Tubes are what toothpaste is normally contained in. The other three are commonly found in tubs.

Answer: magnum

There is also the "jeroboam" which contains four or six times the normal amount.

Answer: watches

As is universally well-known in the United Kingdom, the Lord Chancellor, who presides over the House of Lords, sits on the "Wool Sack".

Answer: beer

Even the French don't mind selling some of their cheaper wine in cartons. They have the same size as cartons of milk. Apart from those there are the larger-size "cartons" with a built-in dispensing system that are popular at unrefined summer barbecues.

Beer in cartons might be helpful to solve part of the soccer-hooligan problem.

In some countries, there are of course cartons containing cans or bottles of beer. Such "cases" or "slabs" replace the wooden or plastic crates.