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How are They Meant to be Used? Quiz

The tools and bits of equipment in this quiz are often found in homes and gardens. Each one has a correct usage although it could be used in all kinds of ways. How are these items meant to be used?

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

Author
Jomarion

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
328,573

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
2698

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. The AWL is a small, hand-held tool. How is it meant to be used? Hint

for scraping and removing paint

for boring small holes

for stripping wall-paper

for applying putty

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Question 2 of 10

2. Various sizes of AUTOCLAVE exist from large, factory types down to the ones which hold just a few litres. I have one of the latter type in my kitchen. How do I use it? Hint

for chopping nuts and hard foodstuffs

for sterilising and also for cooking

for washing delicate garments

for extracting fruit juices

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Question 3 of 10

3. The DIBBER (or DIBBLE) is a gardening tool. I'm no gardener but I've seen my father using one many times. What was he doing with it? Hint

distributing powdered fertilizer

uprooting weeds

making holes for seeds or plants

scraping out the unwanted muck from between the crazy-paving stones

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Question 4 of 10

4. A COLANDER (or CULLENDER) is usually found in the kitchen. How is it used? Hint

filling it with herbs and suspending it in a stew or casserole

for straining food

skimming off scum from boiling liquids

storing dried foods

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Question 5 of 10

5. My friend was using a MATTOCK in his garden last week. What was he doing with it? Hint

pruning his rose bushes

mixing concrete

breaking up hard ground

beating dust out of mats

6. The MORTAR AND PESTLE is made up of two separate items but they must be used together to do the job they're designed for. If you could have watched a medieval apothecary at work, you would, doubtless, have seen him using these two items now and again. They're still popular, nowadays, in the 21st. century. Many of us have them in our kitchens. How do we use them? Hint

making ice-cream

pressing pastry into shape

pounding and grinding food

shaping butter into small curls for attractive,table presentation

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Question 7 of 10

7. The PLANE is a somewhat specialized tool. You wouldn't find one in every household or garden but certainly in some. What is it used for? Hint

shaving and smoothing wood

scraping old wall-paper from walls

oiling surfaces to make them slip smoothly over each other

levelling freshly-poured concrete

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Question 8 of 10

8. The SCYTHE is rarely used nowadays but this old tool has been in regular use up to the early 20th. century in fields and gardens. What is it used for? Hint

chopping trees down

threshing wheat

hooking fruit down from the high branches of trees

mowing long grass and cutting corn prior to harvesting it

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Question 9 of 10

9. SECATEURS (a word which is rarely seen in the singular - although it is ONE tool) are very useful in the garden. How do you use them? Hint

for pruning

for digging

for weeding

for watering

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Question 10 of 10

10. Most people have a WRENCH - if not, more than one, - in their tool box. How should we use this tool? Hint

levering the lids off paint pots

sharpening blunted knives, shears and scissors

driving fence posts into the ground

gripping and turning nuts and bolt-heads

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The AWL is a small, hand-held tool. How is it meant to be used?

Answer: for boring small holes

This is a little, pointed tool. Because of its small size and the fact that it is held in the hand, you can only use it to bore small holes in fairly-soft materials. You wouldn't get very far if you tried using it on a hard wood such as oak or on any thick metals.

2. Various sizes of AUTOCLAVE exist from large, factory types down to the ones which hold just a few litres. I have one of the latter type in my kitchen. How do I use it?

Answer: for sterilising and also for cooking

When used in households, the autoclave is more commonly called a pressure-cooker. It is a strong, sealed vessel in which super-heated steam, under pressure, is used for sterilising or cooking.

3. The DIBBER (or DIBBLE) is a gardening tool. I'm no gardener but I've seen my father using one many times. What was he doing with it?

Answer: making holes for seeds or plants

This is a stubby, hand-held, pointed tool used to make holes for seeds or plants.

4. A COLANDER (or CULLENDER) is usually found in the kitchen. How is it used?

Answer: for straining food

This is a perforated vessel - about the size of a medium saucepan - used for straining foods. For example - I always strain cabbage using my colander.

5. My friend was using a MATTOCK in his garden last week. What was he doing with it?

Answer: breaking up hard ground

You need two hands and muscle power to use a mattock. It is a kind of pickaxe with a cutting edge instead of a point.

Answer: pounding and grinding food

A mortar is a vessel in which substances are pounded and ground by the club-like pestle. It's very useful when you're pounding and blending curry spices.

7. The PLANE is a somewhat specialized tool. You wouldn't find one in every household or garden but certainly in some. What is it used for?

Answer: shaving and smoothing wood

Carpenters use these tools to produce smooth surfaces by paring off shavings - usually from wood. It could also be a machine for smoothing other things.

8. The SCYTHE is rarely used nowadays but this old tool has been in regular use up to the early 20th. century in fields and gardens. What is it used for?

Answer: mowing long grass and cutting corn prior to harvesting it

This tool has a long arm with a curved, sharp, metal blade attached to the end of it. The two handles on the long arm are gripped and the blade swung, in a semi-circular movement, at a low level, to cut swathes of grass/corn. It looks easy when you see an expert using it but be careful - you could cut your feet off!
Old Father Time is often portrayed holding a scythe.

9. SECATEURS (a word which is rarely seen in the singular - although it is ONE tool) are very useful in the garden. How do you use them?

Answer: for pruning

If you have a garden with shrubs, bushes or climbing plants, you would find it difficult to do without these. They are small, hand-held pruning shears usually with a central spring for opening and closing the blades. Unlike shears, which need two hands to use them, you can use secateurs with just one hand.

10. Most people have a WRENCH - if not, more than one, - in their tool box. How should we use this tool?

Answer: gripping and turning nuts and bolt-heads

This tool is a type of spanner. It consists of a metal bar with adjustable jaws for gripping and turning nuts bolt-heads and any other small thing which needs gripping and/or turning.

Source: Author Jomarion

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