Word Sandwiches 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: head

Both hand and head are correct answers.

The forehead is the uppermost part of the face, located between the hairline and the eyebrows.

A headline is the title above an article appearing in a newspaper, magazine or webpage, designed to grab the reader's attention.

Forehand is a basic swing used in most racket sports (such as tennis, pickleball, or badminton) where you hit the ball or shuttlecock (birdie) on your dominant side, made with the palm of the hand turned in the direction in which the hand is moving.

A handline is a simple fishing line used with the hand and not utilising a rod or reel.

Answer: back

A paperback is a book with a soft cover made of thick cardstock. Typically the pages are glued into the spine rather than stitched.

A backlash is a strong reaction, typically sudden and negative, to a social or political situation. It commonly manifests as opposition, resentment and sometimes retaliation.

Answer: hand

Second-hand refers to information or items that are not new or original, having been previously known, owned, or used by someone else.

A handbag is a portable container with handles used to carry personal items such as a coin purse, wallet, keys, phone, glasses and/or cosmetics.

Answer: neck

A bottleneck is any place or situation where congestion occurs that results in a slow down or blockage. For example, a bottleneck may occur when an accident blocks or slows down traffic or where heavy traffic is merging from two lanes into one. A bottleneck may occur on a production line if there is a machine breakdown.

A necklace is a piece of jewellery typically consisting of a chain and pendant, or a string of beads or pearls.

Answer: bone

A wishbone is a V-shaped bone found in the chest of birds. Its proper name is a furcula and it is essential for the ability to fly. It is called a wishbone because of the tradition, dating from the 17th century, of making a wish while pulling the bone and breaking it in two with another person. Whoever holds the bigger piece gets to make a wish.

Bone meal is a type of fertilizer made from ground, cooked animal bones (typically cattle). It is also used as a mineral supplement for livestock to provide calcium and phosphorus.

Answer: lung

The aqualung was invented in 1942 by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan and was a device that allowed divers to breath underwater. It is the forerunner of today's scuba gear.

A lungfish is a prehistoric freshwater fish that can breathe both underwater using gills and in the air using lungs. They still exist today and are known as "living fossils".

Answer: foot

A "leadfoot" is a colloquial expression for someone who drives their car too fast; implying that their foot is made of lead and therefore too heavy on the accelerator.

Football is a team sport involving a round or an elongated oval-shaped ball. Football refers to different games in different countries. For most of the world, football means soccer. In the USA, it means gridiron, and in Australia, it refers to Australian Rules Football, commonly known as "footy".

Answer: nose

Bottlenose refers to a type of dolphin, so-called because its snout (or rostrum) is short and stubby, like an old-fashioned type of bottle. The rostrum is a multi-functional body part essential for the dolphin's survival. Bottlenose dolphins have been observed to rip basket sponges from the seafloor and place them over their rostrum to protect their snout from sharp rocks and corals while foraging.

A nose-bleed is, quite obviously, bleeding from the nose. The medical term for this is epistaxis (singular) or epistaxes (plural).

Answer: hair

Maidenhair is a type of fern. The fern received the name "maidenhair" in English during the Middle Ages, because of its delicate, dark, and thin stalks that resembled long human hairs.

A haircut usually refers to the style that results from the act of cutting hair or the actual cutting process. It is also a slang term used in the areas of business and finance referring to a reduction in value or a financial loss. For example, "Bill bought shares at $100 and took a 20% haircut when he was forced to sell them at $80".

Answer: skin

Moleskin is a type of fabric made of thick, heavy, densely-woven cotton. It is manufactured to create a surface that is soft and suede-like, resembling the fur of a mole. Moleskin is primarily used for the manufacture of trousers similar to denim jeans.

Skintight is a colloquial expression usually referring to clothing that fits very tightly or stretches and clings to the skin. For example, "She wore a skintight dress that left nothing to the imagination".