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From Attic to Zaddik Trivia Quiz

Begin with A and continue on to Z. Use the clues to type words that begin with successive alphabet letters and end with the "ick" or "uck" sounds--spelled any number of ways.

A multiple-choice quiz by robynraymer. Estimated time: 11 mins.

Author
robynraymer

Time
11 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
108,555

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
18 / 25

Plays
1855

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Question 1 of 25

1. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means very cold?

Answer: (Begins with A and has 6 letters.)

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Question 2 of 25

2. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a building used to house soldiers?

Answer: (Begins with B and has 7 letters--NOT PLURAL.)

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Question 3 of 25

3. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means brief or mysterious?

Answer: (Begins with C and has 7 letters--a _______ message.)

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Question 4 of 25

4. The male _______ is called a drake.

Answer: (Begins with D and has 4 letters.)

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Question 5 of 25

5. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means having to do with financial matters?

Answer: (Begins with E and has 8 letters.)

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Question 6 of 25

6. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means marked by fast, anxious activity?

Answer: (Begins with F and has 7 or 8 letters.)

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Question 7 of 25

7. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, and starting with G, could complete the phrase _____ design?

Answer: (Begins with G and has 7 letters--having to do with drawing.)

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Question 8 of 25

8. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a kind of fish?

Answer: (Begins with H and has 7 letters.)

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Question 9 of 25

9. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means carefree, as in an _______ afternoon?

Answer: (Begins with I and has 7 letters.)

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Question 10 of 25

10. I'm skipping J--all I could find was "juridic." So, what word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, begins with K and fits this clue: I get a _______ out of you?

Answer: (Begins with K and has 4 letters.)

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Question 11 of 25

11. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is the name of a town in Texas?

Answer: (Begins with L and has 7 letters.)

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Question 12 of 25

12. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is an antiquated word for a digging tool similar to a pickax?

Answer: (Begins with M and has 7 letters.)

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Question 13 of 25

13. Here's a freebie: Jolly old Saint _______. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, fits in the blank?

Answer: (Begins with N and has 4 letters.)

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Question 14 of 25

14. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means related to vision or the eye, as in _______ nerve?

Answer: (Begins with O and has 5 letters.)

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Question 15 of 25

15. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is the surname of the artist Jackson _______?

Answer: (Begins with P and has 7 letters.)

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Question 16 of 25

16. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means an antonym for "sluggish"?

Answer: (Begins with Q and has 5 letters.)

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Question 17 of 25

17. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a country bumpkin?

Answer: (Begins with R and has 6 letters.)

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Question 18 of 25

18. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is a synonym for "ailing"?

Answer: (Begins with S and has 4 letters.)

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Question 19 of 25

19. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a bloodsucking arachnid?

Answer: (Begins with T and has 4 letters.)

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Question 20 of 25

20. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is an antonym for "congenial."

Answer: (Begins with U and has 13 letters)

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Question 21 of 25

21. What word, starting with V ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, completes this phrase: The Old _______?

Answer: (Begins with V and has 3 letters--a theatre's name.)

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Question 22 of 25

22. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is the name of a famous English castle now owned by Tussaud's?

Answer: (Begins with W and has 7 letters.)

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Question 23 of 25

23. Get out your Scrabble dictionaries, players. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means yellowish?

Answer: (Begins with X and has 7 letters.)

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Question 24 of 25

24. Alas, poor _______! What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, completes this phrase?

Answer: (From Shakespeare: begins with Y and has 6 letters.)

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Question 25 of 25

25. You can get this one from the quiz title: In Judaism, a saintly, religious person or the leader of an Hassidic community is described by what word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound?

Answer: (Begins with Z and has 6 letters.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means very cold?

Answer: arctic

Or attic, antic, or antiseptic.

2. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a building used to house soldiers?

Answer: barrack

Or bannock (flat bread).

3. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means brief or mysterious?

Answer: cryptic

Or Chuck or click or cluck.

4. The male _______ is called a drake.

Answer: duck

Or Dick Tracy or dybbuk.

5. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means having to do with financial matters?

Answer: economic

Or electric, elliptic, or emetic.

6. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means marked by fast, anxious activity?

Answer: frantic

Or the Frick Art Center, or flick, or forensic.

7. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, and starting with G, could complete the phrase _____ design?

Answer: graphic

Or galvanic or garlic or generic.

8. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a kind of fish?

Answer: haddock

Or hammock or hassock or Huck Finn.

9. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means carefree, as in an _______ afternoon?

Answer: idyllic

Or intrinsic or illogic.

10. I'm skipping J--all I could find was "juridic." So, what word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, begins with K and fits this clue: I get a _______ out of you?

Answer: kick

As the Cole Porter song goes, "I get no kick from champagne...cocaine...a plane...but I get a kick out of you!"

11. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is the name of a town in Texas?

Answer: Lubbock

Lubbock is located south of Amarillo. It's at the junction between the panhandle and the pan. Other words: lick, luck, and lyric.

12. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is an antiquated word for a digging tool similar to a pickax?

Answer: mattock

Or manic, muck, or Mick Jagger.

13. Here's a freebie: Jolly old Saint _______. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, fits in the blank?

Answer: Nick

Or Nick Nolte or Nick Cage or knickknack.

14. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means related to vision or the eye, as in _______ nerve?

Answer: optic

Or operatic.

15. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is the surname of the artist Jackson _______?

Answer: Pollock

Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956, was a leading Abstract Expressionist painter. Other words: pick, Puck (in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"), and pathetic.

16. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means an antonym for "sluggish"?

Answer: quick

Or quixotic.

17. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a country bumpkin?

Answer: rustic

Or Rick Moranis, rick (to pile up hay) or ruck (to wrinkle).

18. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is a synonym for "ailing"?

Answer: sick

Or shuck or Semitic or solipsistic.

19. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means a bloodsucking arachnid?

Answer: tick

Or the book "Tuck Everlasting" or topic or triptych.

20. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is an antonym for "congenial."

Answer: unsympathetic

Or unpoetic.

21. What word, starting with V ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, completes this phrase: The Old _______?

Answer: Vic

The Old Vic is one of the oldest theaters (theatres) in London.

22. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, is the name of a famous English castle now owned by Tussaud's?

Answer: Warwick

Several monarchs, included Elizabeth I and Victoria, visited Warwick Castle, which dates back to the time of William the Conqueror. There are beautiful gardens there, as well as deep dungeons and soaring towers.

23. Get out your Scrabble dictionaries, players. What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, means yellowish?

Answer: xanthic

Well, it was between that and "xeric", which means "requiring only a little water".

24. Alas, poor _______! What word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound, completes this phrase?

Answer: Yorick

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." Yorick was a playful courtier whom Hamlet knew in boyhood. Hamlet finds his bones and remembers him fondly.

25. You can get this one from the quiz title: In Judaism, a saintly, religious person or the leader of an Hassidic community is described by what word, ending with an "ick" or "uck" sound?

Answer: zaddik

Also spelled "tzaddik," this word comes from Hebrew. In Potok's novel "The Chosen," Danny's dad is a tzaddik.

Source: Author robynraymer

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