Phobias Trivia

1. What is acrophobia the fear of?

From Quiz Phobias

Answer: Heights

Acrophobia can cause significant anxiety and panic. Acrophobia is one of the most common phobias people have.

From Quiz What Are You Afraid Of?

Answer: Dreams

Oneirophobis (from the Greek "oneiro" meaning dream and "phobia" meaning fear) is the fear of dreaming. This fear can take the form of having nightmares (frightening dreams) which could be caused by a previous traumatic event or by recurring dreams that indicate a negative event in the life of the dreamer.

From Quiz Ten Unusual Phobias Two

Answer: Gravity

Barophobia is the fear of gravity - either that one will be crushed by it, or that one will disappear and will float away into space. This phobia is associated with basophobia - the fear of falling. Rather oddly, barophobia is also associated with a fear of being overweight.

From Quiz Ten Unusual Phobias

Answer: Crossing the street

Agyrophobia is the belief that crossing a street will harm you in some way. This crippling phobia can so disable an individual that they will avoid any public places so set out, will avoid going to work, shopping, or any place at all that entails having to cross a road or street.

From Quiz Phobophobia

Answer: Cheese

It's true, I promise you, there are people who are afraid of cheese, and they are known as turophobiacs. Of the alternatives, someone with chiroptophobia is afraid of bats (the flying type rather than those used in baseball or cricket); a uranophobiac has a fear of Heaven (whilst of course most people are much more afraid of the Other Place -- that's called stygiophobia, BTW); and a coulrophobiac is the not the ideal companion for a trip to the circus as they are afraid of clowns.

From Quiz Phobias

Answer: Fear of bats

Chiroptophobia is a fear or dislike of bats. As a child, young Bruce Wayne from "Batman" fell into a cave full of bats. Bats became his biggest fear but also inspired him to choose the bat as his symbol to fight crime as Batman.

From Quiz Phobias (Don't Be Afraid to Try This Quiz)

Answer: It's the fear of nudity.

Lady Godiva is perhaps one person in history who didn't suffer from it. The opposite, the fear of clothes, is vestiophobia.

From Quiz Are You Afraid of the ...?

Answer: arachnophobia

Arachnophobia comes from the Greek words, "arachne" which means spider and "phobos" which means fear. This fear does not include only spiders but other arachnids as well, like the scorpion. Ornithophobia is fear of birds. Gynophobia is fear of women. And spiderophobia, is obviously an invented word of mine.

From Quiz Obscure Phobias

Answer: snow

"Chioni" is the Greek word for "snow". "Phobos" is the Greek word for "fear of." Incidentally, Chionablepsia is the term used for snow blindness.

From Quiz Phobias in Quizzyland

Answer: Agrizoophobia

The fear of all animals is zoophobia, but wild animals such as giraffes, zebras, lions and bears, the fear is known as agrizoophobia. If you were faced with a lion in the wild, you would naturally start to sweat profusely and panic. People with a fear of wild animals get the same feelings even when the animal is in captivity.

From Quiz Animal Phobias

Answer: Frogs

Ever wondered where the word 'phobia' originated from? It comes from the Greek word 'phobos' meaning 'fear'.

From Quiz Odd Phobias

Answer: Automysophobia

Chirophobia is the fear of hands. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school. Genuphobia is the fear of knees or kneeling. Relating to automysophobia: misophobia (also spelled mysophobia) is the fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs. How many of you wish you'd had didaskaleinophobia as an excuse for skipping school?

From Quiz There's a Phobia for That

Answer: Gravity

Barophobia is defined as the irrational fear of gravity. Sufferers fear falling just because of gravitational pull, or that they will will be completely crushed by the force of gravity. Some, however, go in the opposite direction and fear that gravity will fail and they will just float away and be lost forever.

From Quiz Phobias of the Rich and Famous

Answer: Flying over water

Whenever this leader had to travel, he also preferred to lodge on the first floor of any building at which he stayed. In addition to that, he never travelled anywhere without his nurse, who was described as "a voluptuous blonde" and with whom he was rumoured to have had a romantic relationship for several years. One had to admire the stamina of the man. He had several wives as well, one of whom had fallen into disfavour. Perhaps she objected to the nurse.

From Quiz Phobias of the World

Answer: Ephebiphobia

Some people fear teenagers because they are scared of crime and street culture. Ephebiphobia can also lead to hatred of youth.

From Quiz Phobia Mania Insania

Answer: Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders (derived from the Greek word for spider, "arachne"). That is why the Boggart turned into a spider in the third part of the "Harry Potter" series. Boggarts turn into your worst fears.

From Quiz Don't Panic!

Answer: Peladophobia

The name peladophobia comes from the Spanish "pelada" meaning, among other things, having no hair. Some researchers feel that peladophobia stems from a person's own fear of going bald. In men this may stem from the mistaken belief that loss of hair equals loss of virility.

From Quiz Perfectly Peculiar Phobias

Answer: A fear of being touched

It comes from the Greek word haptein, to fasten, or touch. Haphephobia is often specifically the fear of being touched by a person of the opposite sex.

From Quiz Phobia Fascination

Answer: Walloonphobia

Walloonphobia is a fear of Walloons (French-speaking Belgians). Phengophobia is a fear about daylight or sunshine. Pentheraphobia is a fear of mothers-in-law. It is also called Novercaphobia. Philophobia is a fear of falling in love or being in love.

From Quiz Fear Thy Red X

Answer: fear of the moon

Selenophobia is the fear of the moon. The word comes from the Greek term "seleno," which means moon, and "phobos", which means fear. Trivial fact: Did you know that a blue moon is the second full moon in a single month? As the moon cycle takes about 29 days, a blue moon is quite rare.

From Quiz Phobias

Answer: Antlophobia

Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten or ignored. Lockiophobia is the fear of childbirth. Teleophobia is the fear of definite plans or a religious ceremony.

From Quiz Family Phobias At Home

Answer: Fear of going to bed

From Quiz What Are You Afraid Of?

Answer: Scelerophobia

Melissaphobia - fear of bees, Cenophobia - fear of barren space, Eremophobia - fear of being alone

From Quiz Scaredy Cat's Day

Answer: a spider

Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.

From Quiz Fraidy Cat's Day

Answer: linonophobia

Linonophobia is the fear of strings.

From Quiz Name that Phobia

Answer: Myrmecophobia

Antlophobia is the fear of floods; Xanthophobia is the fear of the color yellow; and Entomophobia (also called Insectophobia) is a fear of all insects, not just ants.

From Quiz Phobias: Strange Fears People Have

Answer: ventriloquists's dummies

From Quiz Phobias

Answer: Basiphobia

It's a natural fear in humans and mammals. A fear of falling involves real anxiety and can result in physical sensations associated with fear, such as nausea and palpitations.

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