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Never Assume Trivia Quiz

You get a brief definition of a word beginning with 'ass'. Then you need to fill in the word.

A multiple-choice quiz by Rehaberpro. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Rehaberpro

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
372,142

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
387

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Question 1 of 10

1. Looking for a word beginning with 'ass', an accountant will tell you what your liabilities are and also your what?

Answer: (Six letters; plural)

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Question 2 of 10

2. Particularly in the United Kingdom, what is the term applied to a rotation of court cases into each county? It begins with 'ass'.

Answer: (seven letters plural)

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Question 3 of 10

3. An 'ass' word that describes the party to whom something is assigned or someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred is assignee.

True

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Question 4 of 10

4. After the man struck the stranger, he was accused of _____ and battery. Fill in the blank with a word beginning with 'ass'.

Answer: (Seven letters)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Thinking of a word that starts with 'ass', in poetry, what is it called when two words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant?

Answer: (Nine letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. The students waited with anticipation for the homework _____ that the professor was about to set. What word beginning with 'ass' fills the blank?

Answer: (Ten letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. The gold miner took his ore to be tested for its ingredients and quality. What word beginning with 'ass' is this process called?

Answer: (Five letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. What is a word beginning with 'ass' that means devoted, attentive to detail, diligent, and persistent? Hint

assidious

assidaous

assituous

assiduous

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Question 9 of 10

9. What word means to satisfy or to provide relief? It begins with 'ass'.

Answer: (Seven letters)

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Question 10 of 10

10. What 'ass' word would describe Balthasar Gerard, Gavrilo Princip, Charlotte Corday, and Nathuram Godse?

Answer: (Nine letters plural)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Looking for a word beginning with 'ass', an accountant will tell you what your liabilities are and also your what?

Answer: Assets

An asset is something owned by a person or company having value and available to meet debts and commitments. Cash on hand would be a valuable asset.

2. Particularly in the United Kingdom, what is the term applied to a rotation of court cases into each county? It begins with 'ass'.

Answer: Assizes

Assizes were held quarterly in each community until 1971. They heard the most serious criminal cases. Often times there was a carnival attitude with markets, performers, and others taking advantage of the large crowds that gathered.

3. An 'ass' word that describes the party to whom something is assigned or someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred is assignee.

Answer: True

Assignee is mostly used in a legal sense. In a will, someone may be the assignee to receive or manage a piece of property.

4. After the man struck the stranger, he was accused of _____ and battery. Fill in the blank with a word beginning with 'ass'.

Answer: Assault

Technically, assault is the threat of violence; battery is the act of violence. In most instances the two occur together.

5. Thinking of a word that starts with 'ass', in poetry, what is it called when two words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant?

Answer: Assonance

Example of assonance are:

"On a prOUd rOUnd clOUd in whIte hIgh nIght" (e. e. cummings)

A hOst, of gOlden daffOdils;
Beside the lake, benEAth the trEEs,
Fluttering and dancing in the brEEze..."(Wordsworth)

6. The students waited with anticipation for the homework _____ that the professor was about to set. What word beginning with 'ass' fills the blank?

Answer: Assignment

An assignment may be a task, job, duty, chore, mission, errand, undertaking, exercise, endeavor, project, and homework. There were few antonyms found but keeping, decommission, and unassigned are referenced.

7. The gold miner took his ore to be tested for its ingredients and quality. What word beginning with 'ass' is this process called?

Answer: Assay

The assay process not only applies to the fictional gold miner's ore but is a broad term to an investigative procedure in a laboratory that may include medicine, pharmacology, biology, and other sciences. The word assay has its roots in both middle English and French.

8. What is a word beginning with 'ass' that means devoted, attentive to detail, diligent, and persistent?

Answer: assiduous

Assiduous is believed to have come from the Latin word 'assiduus' that meant 'to sit down to a task'. Examples would be, "The chef was assiduous in mixing the ingredients," or "Her best work trait was that she was assiduous."

Antonyms are indifferent, lethargic, and neglectful.

9. What word means to satisfy or to provide relief? It begins with 'ass'.

Answer: Assuage

Examples of the use of this word would be "The medication helped to assuage the pain," or "The coach's words assuaged the team's loss".

10. What 'ass' word would describe Balthasar Gerard, Gavrilo Princip, Charlotte Corday, and Nathuram Godse?

Answer: Assassins

Balthasar Gerard assassinated William of Orange in 1584; Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sparked World War One; Charlotte Corday during the French Revolution assassinated Jean Paul Marat in his bathtub; and Nathuram Godse took the life of Mahatma Gandhi, a man of peace and passive resistance.

Source: Author Rehaberpro

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