A quick Quiz or Four !!!

[RCorrigan]

1) Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central letter.
Capitalised words, plurals and inflected verbs and adjectives are disallowed.

(11 - average ; 14 - good ; 18 - very good ; 22 - excelent)


A H
D T Y
I R B

2)
a) In slang how much money is a “Monkey”?
b) Who is said to rule in a plutocracy?
c) Ablation is the movement or removal of what?
d) What is the better-known Australian relative of the cassowary?
e) What is Hypermetropia?

3) Definitions :

i) PODDIES
a) Music-lovers
b) Mangetout
c) Television Puppets
ii) BELOID
a) Beastly
b) An inverted cone
c) Arrow-shaped
iii) EPITHYMY
a) Lust
b) A thyme bed
c) A manifestation
iv) VIRGULE
a) A church officer
b) A cane
c) A slanting line

4) Just for fun – Early names of famous bands :

a) Angel and the Snake
b) Composition of Sound
c) The Golliwogs
d) The Artistics
e) Carl and the Passions
f) The Primettes
g) Tom and Jerry
h) Johnny and the Moondogs
i) Ceasar and Cleo
j) The Paramours
k) Polka Talk
l) The Bangs
m) Beefeaters
n) Sparrow
o) The Elgins
p) The New Journeymen



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[ESquared]

#1 - 42 words:

[white]at, it, ta, ait, art, bat, bit, dit, hat, hit, rat, tab, tad, tar, thy, try, adit, airt, arty, baht, bait, bath, brat, brit, dart, dirt, dita, drat, hart, rath, tahr, thar, tidy, tray, birth, dirty, habit, tardy, third, triad, tribady, birthday[/white]

 

[dgillz]

Ok, the cassowary relative is:

[white]Emu [/white]

I only know this because I am a crossword guru and this is in the crosswords all the time.

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[MakeItSo]

Wow. That was rather tough, but finally here are 22+1:

[COLOR=white white]arty, arid, bard, bait,bath,bird,birth,birthday,brat,brith,
dart,dirt,dirth,dirty,hardy,hart,raid,rita,tardy,thai,
third,tray - and as extra: Darth (not sure if this counts)[/color]

[blue]An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - "Mahatma" Mohandas K. Gandhi[/blue]

 

[snuv]

somwhere between 40 and 43 words

[COLOR=white]
abit, adit, airt, arity, arty, baht, bait, bart, bath, bathy, birt, birth, birthday, brait, brat, brit, brith, dart, dirt, dirty, dita, drat, drith, dryth, habit, hart, hayti, rath, ryth, tabi, tabid, tahr, tardy, tbar, thai, thar, thira, third, tiar, tidy, trad, tray, triad

bart is an abreviation for baronet
bathy is a prefix meany deep
tbar is a bit dubious although dictionary.com did list it
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[MakeItSo]

my dictionary doesn't know at least half of your terms snuv. Are these all real words with a real meaning?

[blue]An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - "Mahatma" Mohandas K. Gandhi[/blue]

 

[RCorrigan]

1) Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central letter.
Capitalised words, plurals and inflected verbs and adjectives are disallowed.


B C
K A D
E F E

2) Definitions :

i) VLOGGING
a) Logging on the Volga
b) Sending Videos
c) A sealskin parka
ii) FEMINA
a) A musical instrument
b) Feminist ideology
c) Feathers
iii) FLEMENSFIRTH
a) The Flemish Firth
b) A stirrup cup
c) Harbouring a runaway
iv) ZYGON
a) Thwart
b) Beer
c) The Phoenician letter Z


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[snuv]

I checked them all on

http://dictionary.reference.com/

except the common words like dart and the ones previously posted by Esquared

Thira and Hayti should be ignored as they are islands - I missed the rule on capitalised words

22-24 for the second set

[COLOR=white]
abed, ackee, akee, back, backed, bade, baked, bead,
beak, beaked, cade, cafe, cake, caked, dace, deaf, 
deface, deka, face, fade, fake, faked, feedback, deca

deca and deka are both prefixes meaning 10
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[ESquared]

Abbreviations and prefixes aren't legit answers.

 

[CajunCenturion]

I offer the following 26 words:

[white]abed, aced, akee, back, bade, bake, bead, beak, cade, cafe, cake, dace, deaf, face, fade, fake, ackee, baked, caked, decaf, faced, faked, backed, beaked, deface, feedback[/white]

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[CajunCenturion]

I offer the following 26 words for the first puzzle:

[white]adit, airt, arty, baht, bait, bath, brat, brit, dart, dirt, dita, drat, hart, rath, tahr, tidy, trad, tray, birth, dirty, habit, tabid, tardy, third, triad, birthday[/white]

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[RCorrigan]

Maybe I should have left the X in the first puzzle !!!!!

No takers for the definitions ? or are they also too easy

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[CajunCenturion]

[white]VLOGGING - a
FEMINA - b
FLEMENSFIRTH - b??
ZYGON - None of the above - it is a bar connecting two animals, like a yoke connecting two oxen[/white]

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[CajunCenturion]

With the X, I can only find 3 words:

[white]braxy, hyrax, radix[/white]

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[RCorrigan]

CC

[white]I hate to say this but ALL wrong !!!![/white]

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[CajunCenturion]

ROFL - Ok by me.

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[CajunCenturion]

However, I will hold your feet to the fire to justify the "correct" answers.

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[RCorrigan]

I'll do definitions on Monday (If I remember) I'm out of here in a few mins for the w/end !!!!!! (Well it is 1/4 to 8 pm here !!!!!)
Have a good one !!!

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[CajunCenturion]

Looking back at my answers:

[white]VLogging is short for Video Logging, just like Blogging is short for Web Logging.  I really did know that, but submitted the wrong answer.  I guessed on ii and iii, but I'll challenge you on iv.[/white]

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[CajunCenturion]

RCorrigan

[white]I just discovered my error on zygon.  What I said wasn't wrong, it is a yoke.  My real mistake was not knowing the noun defintion of thwart.  I was thinking only of the verb to hinder.  Learning is always a good thing.  Thanks.[/white]

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