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Quiz about Cryptic No 2
Quiz about Cryptic No 2

Cryptic No. 2 Trivia Quiz


I have tried to make this a little easier as my first effort was much harder than I realised. Try it and have fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by Fiachra. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
Fiachra
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
142,504
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
828
Question 1 of 10
1. Go back up part of the Spanish Steps for forty winks.

Answer: (3 letters)
Question 2 of 10
2. Can you discover the UK mail among the flower pots ?

Answer: (4 letters)
Question 3 of 10
3. Behead gravel for the composer of the 'Bolero'.

Answer: (Remember Torville and Dean?)
Question 4 of 10
4. Put the ale into the post for one of the twelve.

Answer: (7 letters)
Question 5 of 10
5. Look inside 'Whoopi rated with Teach' for a corsair? .

Answer: (6 letters)
Question 6 of 10
6. The fourth note in a scale, when singing solfeggio, is confused in the colliery and goes hungry.

Answer: (6 letters)
Question 7 of 10
7. This saint can shrink and disappear completely.

Answer: (Fisherman)
Question 8 of 10
8. A South Western irritation can become a cane.

Answer: (6 letters)
Question 9 of 10
9. Foam sounds like this member of Feudal society?

Answer: (4 letters)
Question 10 of 10
10. Put father in a sealed container for a country.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Go back up part of the Spanish Steps for forty winks.

Answer: Nap

Go back over part of the SPANish. Nap.
2. Can you discover the UK mail among the flower pots ?

Answer: Post

Post is an anagram of pots and, is a common name for mail in the UK.
3. Behead gravel for the composer of the 'Bolero'.

Answer: Ravel

Take away the 'G' and you are left with Ravel.
4. Put the ale into the post for one of the twelve.

Answer: Apostle

Ale and post together make an anagram of apostle. There were twelve of them originally.
5. Look inside 'Whoopi rated with Teach' for a corsair? .

Answer: Pirate

WhooPI RATEd with etc.
6. The fourth note in a scale, when singing solfeggio, is confused in the colliery and goes hungry.

Answer: Famine

Fa is a note and mine is another word for colliery = famine.
7. This saint can shrink and disappear completely.

Answer: Peter

If something peters out it becomes less until it disappears altogether.
8. A South Western irritation can become a cane.

Answer: Switch

Itch is another word for irritation. Sw + itch = switch, a thin flexible stick used for punishment in the not too distant past.
9. Foam sounds like this member of Feudal society?

Answer: Serf

Foam, as everyone knows is the surf on a line of breakers, while a serf was the lowliest worker in Feudalism.
10. Put father in a sealed container for a country.

Answer: Canada

Da is a short form of father, can is a sealed container, hence Canada.
Source: Author Fiachra

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