Triple Treat Words #6 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Strip

The STRIP of the sports team was a garish lavender and cobalt blue. After playing the game, they will STRIP to shower. If they lose the game, the coach may STRIP them of some of their privileges for their poor performance.

For the Interesting Information in this quiz, I've selected some quotes with a form of the answer in them. They make me smile or think.. or both!

'The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.'
Sir Winston Churchill

Is this trend any more evident than in speeches made by politicians? So many politicians are able to speak at length but not say anything meaningful or even answering the question they were asked.

Answer: Plant

Jason will PLANT the tree in the ground in front of the PLANT before the PLANT sees him.

'A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.'
Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer: Break

Oh no! Did you BREAK the window by kicking a ball into it? You'll have to clean it up when there is a BREAK during a television show for commercials. I'm not sure how to BREAK this to you, but if you don't clean it up soon, you may miss Sergei Jumpanova's attempt to BREAK the world pole vault record.

'Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.'
Ray Romano

I've also heard it said that a parent eagerly looks forward to their children walking and talking, but as soon as the child does, they want them to sit down and be quiet! ;-)

Answer: Light

Barney, turn right at the LIGHT. There is a shop on the corner and I'd like to buy a Christmas LIGHT while you LIGHT your cigar.

'I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.'
Muhammad Ali

If only that quote was still true! The brilliance of Ali has been severely blunted by the development of Parkinson's syndrome over the years since his retirement.

Answer: Knock

Please don't KNOCK that KNOCK. You may KNOCK that vase and then we'll have a mess to clean up which will be another KNOCK for all of us.

'Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.'
Kin Hubbard

So, how's the weather where you are? If nothing else, the weather is an ice-breaker to use when you're first meeting someone.

Answer: Staff

The STAFF carried a STAFF to the jeweller so it could be turned into a STAFF.

'When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.'
Liberace

Answer: Spit

It's beginning to SPIT and I need to put the pig on the SPIT so it can be roasted over an open fire while it spins. We're having a barbecue on a SPIT.

'Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.'
Russian proverb

Answer: Peer

Gordon, did you see that PEER PEER over the rooftops in an attempt to see his PEER?

'Hermits have no peer pressure.'
Steven Wright.

I suppose there has to be an advantage to being a hermit!

Answer: May

I MAY allow you to visit the MAY tree in MAY.

'Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.'
Mark Twain

Answer: Course

The curriculum of my intended COURSE is interesting. Let's discuss it in the dinner hall after walking along this COURSE. I'm a bit peckish now. I shall enjoy each COURSE of my meal with gusto.

'Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, 

Could ever hear by tale or history, 

The course of true love never did run smooth;
But, either it was different in blood,-'
William Shakespeare
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Act I, Scene I