Sesquipedalian Logodaedaly!

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1. I’ll start this quiz by giving you an answer! "Sesquipedalian" means "pertaining to, or using long words". But what exactly is the root meaning of sesquipedalian? Derived from ancient Greek Boring old person Tongue-twister About 46 centimetres

2. "Logodaedalians", or "word wizards", can be a colourful bunch. All of the following words refer to colour in some way except for: Rosorial Purpuraceous Brunneous Xanthocyanopsia

3. "Philtrum" is a strangely uncommon word, for a strangely common feature. Which show business personality never professionally exposed his or her philtrum? Jim Morrison Arnold Schwarzenegger Drew Barrymore Groucho Marx

4. While you’re fishing for answers, which of the following words has nothing to do with fish? Humuhumunukunukuapua'a Halieutics Hircismus Harengiform

5. You have a friend who expresses the desire to move from a state of "steatopygia" to one of "callipygia". What DVD do you buy her for Christmas? "Buns of Steel" "Carrot Top Rocks Las Vegas" Complete first season of "The Sopranos" Nothing, she’s obviously a Zoroastrian and doesn’t celebrate Christmas

6. Leapin’ lizards! I’ll bet you’ve never met a reptile that was: Squamaceous Pentapopemptic Poikilothermal Herpetofauna

7. If you were in a foot race with three other people, and you achieved the "preantepenultimate" position, you would have: Won Hurt yourself Lost Attained nirvana

8. Even Willy the Shake was a logodaedalian, maybe the best ever. Which of the following sesquipedalianisms can be found in the works of Shakespeare? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Floccinaucinihilipilification Honorificabilitudinitatibus Antidisestablishmentarianism

9. "But surely my dear, you must have realized from the start that I'm a confirmed gynotikolobomassophile," you murmur, as you: Slip into her underwear Poison her wine Nibble her ear Do her dishes

10. Which one of the following words did I make up just for this quiz? Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Ultraglabrescentaceous Quasihemidemisemiquaver Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian