Baste or Crate? You decide! Quiz | Word Play

Baste or Crate? You decide! Trivia Quiz

This is my first attempt at making a brain teaser quiz. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

A classification quiz by Trufflesss. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. An insertion mark

Answer: Crate

The answer is 'caret'. A caret is a mark that looks like a small, upside down 'v' used to indicate where something needs to to be inserted into a text. The symbol also has a number of uses in mathematics and programming.

2. Provide food and drink

Answer: Crate

The answer is 'cater'. To cater is to provide sustenance in a professional capacity such as at a wedding. The word comes from Old French 'acater' meaning 'to buy'.

3. To have a response

Answer: Crate

The answer is 'react'. It means to behave in a way that is in response to something. My girlfriend reacted by screaming when she saw the big spider.

4. Plural for part of the bowels

Answer: Crate

The answer is 'recta'. 'Recta' is plural for 'rectum' and is the final straight part of the large intestine. It comes from Latin, meaning 'straight intestine'.

5. To copy by drawing lines over

Answer: Crate

The answer is 'trace'. The meaning is to draw on a thin, transparent paper often using a pencil. It comes from the late 14c 'traces' meaning to draw or make an outline of something.

6. Helps a bad guy

Answer: Baste

The answer is 'abets'. To abet is to help or encourage someone to commit a crime. The word comes from the 14th century Old French 'abeter' meaning to bait, or harass with dogs.

7. A scary animal

Answer: Baste

The answer is 'beast'. The word refers to a large or dangerous animal. It comes from c. 1200 'beste' meaning 'one of the lower animals'. Interestingly, it was used in Middle English as the translation of the Latin for 'animal'.

8. Wins a game

Answer: Baste

The answer is 'beats'. The word has different senses such as 'to flap wings', 'to win a game', 'to hit a drum', 'the rhythm of music', 'to overcome by effort', and 'to inflict blows'.

9. Weak, submissive people

Answer: Baste

The answer is 'betas'. The word can refer to the second letter of the Greek alphabet and in other contexts where it refers to the second of many things. Betas are the following opposite of dominant alpha types.

10. Emaciation

Answer: Baste

The answer is 'tabes'. It is pronounced with two syllables, both vowels are long. Tabes comes from 1650's Latin, and is a medical term in pathology meaning 'progressive emaciation'. It refers to a gradual, progressive wasting in any chronic disease.

Source: Author Trufflesss

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