Phobias in Quizzyland

Answer: Agrizoophobia

The fear of all animals is zoophobia, but wild animals such as giraffes, zebras, lions and bears, the fear is known as agrizoophobia. If you were faced with a lion in the wild, you would naturally start to sweat profusely and panic. People with a fear of wild animals get the same feelings even when the animal is in captivity.

Answer: Verbophobia

A phobia against words is verbophobia, but it can also be known as logophobia. The fear of long words is either sesquipedalophobia or hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Phew! That's a long word!

Answer: Ochlophobia

People who take on a high profile in the world of celebrities can be expected to face large crowds and sometimes mobs if they are extremely popular. It is called ochlophobia if they suffer a phobic reaction against these crowds.

Answer: Chorophobia

Chorophobia is the fear of all dancing, from ballet, to tap, to the Lambada. It is not only the fear of taking part in dancing, but of watching others dance. Their feelings could grow worse if they are ridiculed for not wanting to take part.

Answer: Pedophobia

The fear of children is called pedophobia, which is taken from the Greek word "paedo", meaning children. Pediaphobia can also be used but it normally describes the fear of dolls or other children's toys.

Answer: Gnosiophobia

The fear of learning new things is called gnosiophobia. Sometimes knowledge can bring bad news which triggers the normal symptoms associated with phobias. Epistemophobia is also the fear of wisdom or knowledge.

Answer: Potamophobia

Potamophobia is the fear of rivers, rapids, waterfalls, streams, canals, or anywhere you can find running water. The word "potamo" is taken from the Greek word for river.

Answer: Traumatophobia

Traumatophobia is a fear of physical injury caused during a war or battle. Many people get into a situation where they are hurt or injured, but the symptoms for a person with traumatophobia are so severe that they can see danger when there is no reason to.

Answer: Cibophobia

The general fear of food is cibophobia. This can be broken down to include individual phobias such as mycophobia (mushrooms), alektorophobia (chicken), ichthyophobia (fish) and carnophobia (meat).

Answer: Theatrophobia

Theatrophobia is taken from the Greek word for "theatron", which means a place of seeing. It may be because the person is afraid of enclosed spaces, or when the lights go out before a performance. They may also fear that the bad things they see on stage or screen will follow them from the theatre.

Answer: Bibliophobia

People with bibliophobia have sometimes got a learning disability such as dyslexia. The fear may come on when a person is struggling to read or comprehend strange words, but the genre of the book may also cause abnormal palpitations, nausea and panic attacks.

Answer: Teratophobia

Teratophobia is the fear of monsters, giving birth to monsters or malformed looking creatures. If you suffer from this fear then you would not want to see the 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby". This told of a woman who gave birth to the child of Satan.

Answer: Melophobia

Melophobia is the fear and aversion to music or musical sounds. This could be a song on the radio, a band at a concert or somebody singing in a church choir.

Answer: Anthropophobia

Anthropophobia is the fear of people, whether it is one person or a group of people. This fear can lead to a person becoming shy and timid followed by a complete withdrawal from society if not treated in time.

Answer: Theophobia

An abnormal fear of a god, deity or religion is called theophobia. People with this phobia believe the wrath of God will descend if any wrongdoing has been made. Atheophobia is the fear of atheists.

Answer: Technophobia

Technophobia is the fear of advanced technology or devices associated with technology. This could relate to mobile phones, automated ticket machines and even cars with inbuilt computers.

Answer: Atychiphobia

Sports men and women spend days, weeks and years training to achieve their ultimate goal by beating off competition and winning first place in their field of expertise. They all have a healthy fear of failure, but for some people their fear can take over their lives by turning into atychiphobia.

Answer: Melanophobia and Leukophobia

There is no known phobia for the fear of televisions, but melanophobia is the fear of the colour black and leukophobia is the fear of the colour white. How many of you remember watching black and white televisions?

Answer: Cyberphobia

Most video games can be played on a computer, but people who suffer with cyberphobia are unable to enjoy this activity. Therefore, they have had to do without "Super Mario", "Final Fantasy", "Donkey Kong" and "Grand Theft Auto".

Answer: Chrometophobia

Those who suffer with chrometophobia often get around their fear by using charge or credit cards to save handling coins or bank notes. Another name for this fear is chrematophobia.