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Quiz about Sea Sigh So Sum
Quiz about Sea Sigh So Sum

Sea, Sigh, So, Sum Trivia Quiz


The descriptions on the left should bring to mind an alliterative phrase or saying. Choose the letter from the right hand column that is associated with the alliteration. (In the case of the title, the letter is S.)

A matching quiz by spanishliz. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
spanishliz
Time
4 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
393,528
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
332
Last 3 plays: Guest 184 (0/10), Guest 176 (4/10), jonnowales (6/10).
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
QuestionsChoices
1. Alliteratively named boy gathered vinegar-soaked chiles.   
  F
2. Broad earth spider's creation   
  M
3. Counties for Eliza Doolittle, perhaps  
  P
4. Giant's declaration, rhyming with quiz title  
  L
5. Girl offers vestiges of marine life in coastal setting  
  B
6. I prefer cow juice.   
  D
7. Oddly likeable serial killer was introduced in alliteratively titled book.   
  R
8. Paramour missing for years  
  S
9. Tattered imp circumnavigated craggy boulder  
  H
10. Young woman purchased dairy product   
  W





Select each answer

1. Alliteratively named boy gathered vinegar-soaked chiles.
2. Broad earth spider's creation
3. Counties for Eliza Doolittle, perhaps
4. Giant's declaration, rhyming with quiz title
5. Girl offers vestiges of marine life in coastal setting
6. I prefer cow juice.
7. Oddly likeable serial killer was introduced in alliteratively titled book.
8. Paramour missing for years
9. Tattered imp circumnavigated craggy boulder
10. Young woman purchased dairy product

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Alliteratively named boy gathered vinegar-soaked chiles.

Answer: P

Try saying "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" five times quickly! This nursery rhyme cum tongue twister has three more lines, all of them utilising a plethora of Ps. First found in published form in the early 19th century, it is believed to have been known at least a quarter century earlier possibly referring to a French horticulturist named Pierre Poivre (Peter Pepper).
2. Broad earth spider's creation

Answer: W

None of us would be here playing and writing quizzes online without the World Wide Web, brainchild of Englishman Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Without going into more detail than I'm capable of doing (without confusing myself), the web is where fun websites like FunTrivia live and we access these using browsers and other nifty bits and bobs that make everything work.
3. Counties for Eliza Doolittle, perhaps

Answer: H

In the course of her education by Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" (1964), one of Eliza's tasks is to pronounce her aitches correctly. She must say "in Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen", instead of her natural "in 'ertford, 'ereford, and 'ampshire 'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen".

She is to pronounce these words towards a burning candle, whose flame flickers each time she pronounces an H. When eventually she's "got it", she and Higgins and Colonel Pickering rejoice and sing about this and the rain in Spain and other such wonderful phrases.
4. Giant's declaration, rhyming with quiz title

Answer: F

"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman" is what the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk" declares, going on to imply that the Englishman will soon be eaten by the giant, if the latter has his way. The alliterative phrase is similar to ones used in earlier written works, including Shakespeare's "King Lear".

It is possible that it is in fact a coherent Gaelic phrase expressing that a tasty and filling meal has been spotted.
5. Girl offers vestiges of marine life in coastal setting

Answer: S

"She sells sea-shells, by the seashore" is another one of those tongue twisting rhymes that employ alliteration to test our elocution skills. Like many such tales and rhymes there is a real person behind it, in this case a woman named Mary Anning (1799-1847) from Dorset in England, who sold not only sea-shells, but fossils that she found by the shore, contributing to the scientific knowledge of the time.
6. I prefer cow juice.

Answer: M

"Make Mine Milk" is a promotional slogan that has been used at different times in both the United States and United Kingdom (and possibly elsewhere) to encourage people to drink milk, both for the sake of their health and the well-being of the dairy industry.

The UK campaign in the early 21st century has featured celebrities like chef Gordon Ramsay, Rupert Grint (aka Ron Weasley) and others sporting "milk mustaches".
7. Oddly likeable serial killer was introduced in alliteratively titled book.

Answer: D

"Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay introduced us to Miami blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan, whose sideline was murder. What made him less loathsome was his choice of 'victim' - other serial killers. The television series "Dexter" (2006-2013) starring Michael C. Hall made him even more popular.
8. Paramour missing for years

Answer: L

The alliterative phrase here is "long lost love", which is well-illustrated by the UK television series "As Time Goes By" (1992-2005). Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer play a couple who had been in love in their youth, but were separated when he went off to serve in the army, and an important letter was lost. Each meet and marry someone else, are eventually widowed, then happily stumble into each others' lives again after nearly forty years.
9. Tattered imp circumnavigated craggy boulder

Answer: R

"Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran" is yet another tongue twister that is suitable for polishing one's pronunciation (or in this case, the rolling of one's Rs). A version of it is used in the speech lessons scene of "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). It is sometimes written as "round and round the rugged rocks..." and other slight variations.
10. Young woman purchased dairy product

Answer: B

"Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter's bitter..." and so on for several lines about buying better butter to make her batter better than the bitter butter made the batter. You get the idea, I think. A version of the rhyme was first published in "The Jingle Book" in 1899, and variations of different lengths exist.
Source: Author spanishliz

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