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You Don't Know Jack ... about words Quiz

Test your vocabulary in this "You Don't Know Jack" style word quiz ... Flight attendents prepare for take-off.

A multiple-choice quiz by katsdrama. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
katsdrama

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
165,911

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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1412

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Question 1 of 10

1. You're planning your vacation and your vacation buddy suggests you go somewhere where you can use a "komatik". Where do you book your vacation? Hint

Hawaii

Alaska

Fiji

Haiti

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Question 2 of 10

2. Your best friend drags you along to the opera. You fall asleep during the "sinfonia" also known as... Hint

the aisle

the orchestra pit

the overture

the finale

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Question 3 of 10

3. It's taken years of hard work, but after hours of blood, sweat and tears, you have just performed a perfect "salchow". What are you doing? Hint

Figure skating

Catwalking

Ballet

Synchronized swimming

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Question 4 of 10

4. It's a gorgeous, sunny day and you decide to spend it tanning in your backyard. To your surprise, you find an "abelia" in your backyard. Who do you call? Hint

A Ghostbuster

Animal Control

A botanist

Ripley's Believe It or Not

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Question 5 of 10

5. You're feeling a bit under the weather, and after a check-up by your doctor he prescribes you a healthy dose of "dimercaprol". What's the diagnosis? Hint

Nothing

Metal poisoning

Heat Stroke

Pregnancy

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Question 6 of 10

6. Your significant other tells you that they wish you had a more "glabrous" hairstyle. Whose picture do you take in to show the hairstylist? Hint

Slash from Guns 'n' Roses

Yul Brynner

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis Presley

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Question 7 of 10

7. All your friends are wearing "wampum". They are all the rage and you need to be wearing what all the other cool kids are wearing. Where are you going to go shopping? Hint

a candy store

Hawaii

An Indian Reservation

A funeral home

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Question 8 of 10

8. If a teacher in a Scottish school some years ago said he was going to give you the 'tawse', what would you have expected to get? Hint

A mechanical pencil sharpener

A Scots Gaelic dictionary

A leather strap across the hand

A rosette for coming top of the class

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Question 9 of 10

9. Imagine for a moment that you're pregnant (that includes the men). You wake up at 3am craving a bit of "gerenuk". Where will your poor husband have to go to get it for you? Hint

The Alps

The Pacific Ocean

Lake Erie

Eastern Africa

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Question 10 of 10

10. You're going to travel by "quadriga". What will you be traveling on/in? Hint

Land

Air

Water

Outer Space

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. You're planning your vacation and your vacation buddy suggests you go somewhere where you can use a "komatik". Where do you book your vacation?

Answer: Alaska

Book a suite at the Inuit Igloo Inn. A "komatik" is an Eskimo sled that is made with wooden runners and crossbars decorated with rawhide.

2. Your best friend drags you along to the opera. You fall asleep during the "sinfonia" also known as...

Answer: the overture

Yep, you never made it past the first few minutes. A "sinfonia" is a musical work that is an introduction to choral numbers.

3. It's taken years of hard work, but after hours of blood, sweat and tears, you have just performed a perfect "salchow". What are you doing?

Answer: Figure skating

You're on your way to a Winter Olympics Gold Medal. Named after the skater who created the jump, Ulrich Salchow.

4. It's a gorgeous, sunny day and you decide to spend it tanning in your backyard. To your surprise, you find an "abelia" in your backyard. Who do you call?

Answer: A botanist

No need to panic, unless you're allergic to bees. An "abelia" is any shrub from Mexica or Asia that has leaves as well as white, pink or red flowers.

5. You're feeling a bit under the weather, and after a check-up by your doctor he prescribes you a healthy dose of "dimercaprol". What's the diagnosis?

Answer: Metal poisoning

Lay off the paint chips. "Dimercaprol" is a chemical compound used to counteract lewisite. It's more common use is to cure mercury, arsenic, and gold poisoning.

6. Your significant other tells you that they wish you had a more "glabrous" hairstyle. Whose picture do you take in to show the hairstylist?

Answer: Yul Brynner

Set the clippers on 0 and break out the bic, you're going bald. "Glabrous" is a flat surface that has no hairs or protrusions.

7. All your friends are wearing "wampum". They are all the rage and you need to be wearing what all the other cool kids are wearing. Where are you going to go shopping?

Answer: An Indian Reservation

Just don't trade yourself to the chief for them. A "wampum" is beads of shiny shells strung together. "Wampum" are used by some North American Indians tribes as clothings, money, or decorations. They are also used as ceremonial rites of passage.

8. If a teacher in a Scottish school some years ago said he was going to give you the 'tawse', what would you have expected to get?

Answer: A leather strap across the hand

A "tawse" was a leather strap with strips at the end, like a tassel. It was once used in state schools in Scotland and northern England to punish children by striking them across the palm of the hand. All forms of corporal punishment were banned by law in UK schools in 1987, although use of the tawse had largely ended several years earlier.

Thanks to dsimpy for providing assistance with the information for this question.

9. Imagine for a moment that you're pregnant (that includes the men). You wake up at 3am craving a bit of "gerenuk". Where will your poor husband have to go to get it for you?

Answer: Eastern Africa

Hope he has a passport! The "gerenuk" you're craving is a thin antelope with large eyes. Works well with Hamburger helper.

10. You're going to travel by "quadriga". What will you be traveling on/in?

Answer: Land

You'll be safely on land, in your brand new "quadriga" or a chariot. Oh and it will be pulled by four horses. Yeah Spartacus!

Source: Author katsdrama

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