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Quiz about sGenitives In Standing Expressions

's-Genitives In Standing Expressions Quiz

This quiz deals with 's-genitives occurring in standing expressions,and occasionally in titles of literary works.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
69,943

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
5236

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which of these is a standing expression for a large sum of money? Hint

A prince's heritage

A king's ransom

A princess's treasure-house

A queen's dowry

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Question 2 of 10

2. What animal's life is considered - by the English language at least - to be not so very pleasant? Hint

A dog's life

A donkey's life

A cat's life

A shire-horse's life

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Question 3 of 10

3. Whose revenge implies diarrhoea? Hint

Cromwell's

King Tut's

Montezuma's

Pharaoh's

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Question 4 of 10

4. In whose bosom do you, traditionally and within the context of standing expressions in the English language, find rest after death ? Hint

Abraham's

Jesus'

Mother Mary's

Jacob's

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of these is a standing expression in English to refer to what middle-aged women may fear the most as an 'irreparable damage' done to them? Hint

A duck's bill

A lion's roar

Crow's feet

A serpent's bite

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Question 6 of 10

6. Whose Needle can be seen in London? Hint

Pandora's

the laceworker's

Aphrodite's

Cleopatra's

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of these would you link with 'Rubik's'? Hint

Triangle

Square

Circle

Cube

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of these was a source of numerous evils? Hint

Cleopatra's nose

Aladdin's lamp

Pandora's box

King Midas' ears

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Question 9 of 10

9. In which of these phrasings is FOOLS' accepted by many dictionaries as a correct alternative to FOOL'S? Hint

April Fool's Day

Fool's gold

A fool's paradise

A fool's errand

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Question 10 of 10

10. Whose 'Last Tape' was a play by Samuel Beckett? Hint

Portnoy's

Howard's

Finnegan's

Krapp's

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which of these is a standing expression for a large sum of money?

Answer: A king's ransom

When knights were taken prisoner, huge ransoms were customary. The French King John II the Good did not even find his subjects ready to pay the required ransom to get him back out of the hands of the English. Maybe he was, after all, not so good a king as his name suggests.

2. What animal's life is considered - by the English language at least - to be not so very pleasant?

Answer: A dog's life

And of course 'a cat has nine lives'.

3. Whose revenge implies diarrhoea?

Answer: Montezuma's

King Tut's and Pharaoh's revenges were more drastic than Montezuma's - they were lethal. Cromwell's Revenges were terrible too, as the Catholics of Drogheda experienced.

4. In whose bosom do you, traditionally and within the context of standing expressions in the English language, find rest after death ?

Answer: Abraham's

The expression may have a Jewish origin.

5. Which of these is a standing expression in English to refer to what middle-aged women may fear the most as an 'irreparable damage' done to them?

Answer: Crow's feet

Cosmetics go a long way to repair the 'irreparable damages' caused by time.

6. Whose Needle can be seen in London?

Answer: Cleopatra's

It is near the Thames. Laceworkers use bobbins, not needles.

7. Which of these would you link with 'Rubik's'?

Answer: Cube

Rubik's Cube was a popular puzzle.

8. Which of these was a source of numerous evils?

Answer: Pandora's box

Midas' touch was a lot worse than his (donkey) ears, as it changed everything into gold so that Midas was unable to even crunch a wiener. Cleopatra's nose was o.k., but what Caesar and Anthony fell in love with was probably more than just her nose. Aladdin's lamp worked as magic, and there was nothing harmful about it.

9. In which of these phrasings is FOOLS' accepted by many dictionaries as a correct alternative to FOOL'S?

Answer: April Fool's Day

There is more than just one fool who is sent on a fool's errand on April Fools' Day. A fool's paradise is something that is erratically viewed as paradise by a foolish person, but it need not be a Paradise for or full of Fools - as in Sebastian Brandt's 'Ship of Fools'. By fool's gold pyrites are meant which can easily be mistaken for gold. Foolscap paper has a fool's cap as a watermark.

In earlier times it was still a crown.

10. Whose 'Last Tape' was a play by Samuel Beckett?

Answer: Krapp's

Finnegan's Wake was when there was a lot of drinking, in the popular song and in Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Howard's End is where some of E.M.Forster's heroes resided. Portnoy's... well Portnoy suffered from a highly publicised complaint.

Source: Author flem-ish

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