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Quiz about High Five

High Five! Trivia Quiz


This test is all about words made up with five letters like "snake", "house", "brand" and the like. Think it's easy? Take the quiz to find out...

A multiple-choice quiz by wanna_be19. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
wanna_be19
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
251,173
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
14 / 25
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Question 1 of 25
1. What is an ACKEE? Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. Who is your mother's BAIRN? Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. When someone asks you to COOCH, he/she probably wants you to... Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. What does a DHOBI do? Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. What is an ESKER? Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. What is a FERIA? Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. What would you most likely do with a GOWAN? Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. Who is the father of a HINNY? Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. What is an INVAR made of? Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. In Arabic language, what famous place would be considered a JEBEL? Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. What do you do with a KIBBE? Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. Your liver is in your body. Where can you most often find a LIVRE? Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. What is a MATIN? Hint


Question 14 of 25
14. Who is a NAIAD? Hint


Question 15 of 25
15. Where can you, most typically, find an ORLOP? Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. Where can you find a PROOL (an anagram of orlop in the previous question)? Hint


Question 17 of 25
17. If a queen is respected, what about a QUEAN? Hint


Question 18 of 25
18. Which of these can you associate a RHUMB with? Hint


Question 19 of 25
19. If you SKIRL, what type of voice would you have? Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. What movie thriller would sound less catchy if renamed, "The THORP"? Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. Which of the following characteristics should an ULEMA have, first of all? Hint


Question 22 of 25
22. Where would you usually hear the word, "VANIR"? Hint


Question 23 of 25
23. Who most likely WRESTs? Hint


Question 24 of 25
24. What is the correct way to use the word XERIC? Hint


Question 25 of 25
25. Which of the following fairy tale characters is about a YOKEL, obviously? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is an ACKEE?

Answer: a tree

All definitions for the following words are taken from "Webster's New World Dictionary; Third College Edition"

ackee n.

a W African tree (Blighia sapida) of the soapberry family, widely grown in the tropics

its fruit, poisonous if not ripe, and containing large, black seeds with fleshy, white arils

a dish made by cooking these arils: often combined with salted cod as in Jamaica.

Also called "akee."
2. Who is your mother's BAIRN?

Answer: You

Bairn n. [Scot]

a son or daughter; child
3. When someone asks you to COOCH, he/she probably wants you to...

Answer: Take the center stage and dance

Cooch n. [Slang]

a female exhibition dance with sinuous hip movements, etc.; belly dance
4. What does a DHOBI do?

Answer: Wash your clothes

Dhobi n. [Hindi]

in India, a person who does laundry
5. What is an ESKER?

Answer: Deposited sand

Esker n. [Ir]

a winding, narrow ridge of sand or gravel, probably deposited by a stream flowing in or under glacial ice
6. What is a FERIA?

Answer: A festival

Feria n. [LL]

in ancient Rome, holidays or festivals

Eccles.
any weekday, except Saturday, that is not a feast day or vigil
7. What would you most likely do with a GOWAN?

Answer: Give it to someone on Valentine's

Gowan n. [Scot]

any yellow or white field flower; esp., the English daisy
8. Who is the father of a HINNY?

Answer: A horse

Hinny n.

the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey
9. What is an INVAR made of?

Answer: Nickel

Invar

trademark for a steel alloy containing approximately 36% nickel, used for making precision instruments and thermostatic elementsbecause of its low coefficient of thermal expansion
10. In Arabic language, what famous place would be considered a JEBEL?

Answer: Mt. Fuji

Jebel n. [Ar]

a hill or mountain: often used in Arabic place names
11. What do you do with a KIBBE?

Answer: Eat it

Kibbe or kibbeh n. [Ar]

a Near Eastern dish of finely ground lamb mixed with wheat and pine nuts and baked, or sometimes eaten raw
12. Your liver is in your body. Where can you most often find a LIVRE?

Answer: In the bank

Livre n. [Fr]

a former French money of account (discontinued in the late 18th cent) orig. equivalent in value to a pound of silver
13. What is a MATIN?

Answer: A morning prayer

Matin n. [Early ME]

[pl., usually with sing. v.]
a. a R.C.Ch., the first of the seven canonical hours, orig. recited between midnight and dawn, but often at daybreak, usually joined with lauds (matins is now called the "Office of Readings")
b. Anglican Church, morning prayer
14. Who is a NAIAD?

Answer: A female swimmer

Naiad n.

Gr & R Myth., any of the nymphs living in and giving life to springs, fountains, rivers, and lakes

a girl or a woman swimmer
15. Where can you, most typically, find an ORLOP?

Answer: The Black Pearl

Orlop n. [Now Rare]

the lowest deck of a ship with four or more decks

"The Black Pearl" is the famous ship on "Pirates of the Carribean" series. "Hogwarts" is the wizardry school on "Harry Potter" series. "McDonalds" is a fastfood restaurant and "The White House" is where the American president live.
16. Where can you find a PROOL (an anagram of orlop in the previous question)?

Answer: Nowhere

In the dictionary, there is no such word as prool.
17. If a queen is respected, what about a QUEAN?

Answer: No, she's a prostitute!

Quean n.

[Archaic]
a. a bold, brazen woman; hussy
b. a prostitute

[Scot.]
a girl or unmarried woman
18. Which of these can you associate a RHUMB with?

Answer: A pirate

Rhumb n.

rhumb line

any of the 32 points of a mariner's compass

Anyone directing a seagoing vessel or aircraft in its voyage might use a rhumb. (Pilots use the term to refer specifically to a course that follows a surface straight line, as opposed to one following a great circle route.)
19. If you SKIRL, what type of voice would you have?

Answer: Shrill

Skirl vt., vi. [Scot]

to sound out in shrill, piercing tones, as a bagpipe

n.

a shrill sound, as of a bagpipe
20. What movie thriller would sound less catchy if renamed, "The THORP"?

Answer: "The Village"

Thorp or thorpe n.

a village; hamlet: now mainly in place names
21. Which of the following characteristics should an ULEMA have, first of all?

Answer: Knowledge

Ulema n.pl. [Turk]

Muslim scholars or men of authority in religion and law, esp. in Turkey

a council or college of such men
22. Where would you usually hear the word, "VANIR"?

Answer: Norse mythology

Vanir n.pl. [ON]

Norse Myth., a race of gods who originally fight with but are later reconciled with the Aesir
23. Who most likely WRESTs?

Answer: A boy who forces a cork out of the bottle

Wrest vt.

to turn or twist; esp., to pull or force away violently with a twisting motion

to take or extract by force; usurp; extort; wring

to distort or change the true meaning, purpose, use, etc. of; pervert; twist
24. What is the correct way to use the word XERIC?

Answer: Drought will soon hit and the XERIC land will kill all plants that dares to sit upon it.

Xeric adj.

of, pertaining to, or having dry or desertlike conditions

xerophytic

In the choices, the aunt probably saw a PSYCHIC, the sea is probably SCENIC, and Jared is probably SICK.
25. Which of the following fairy tale characters is about a YOKEL, obviously?

Answer: The country mouse in "The City Mouse and The Country Mouse"

Yokel n.

a person living in a rural area; rustic; country bumpkin: a contemptuous term
Source: Author wanna_be19

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