Speaker 1: The English language so rich, vibrant and complex, and sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a little bit silly too, but it's constantly evolving.
Speaker 1: In today's capture Trivia wordplay quiz, it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a mixed bag. I've got to tell you every question
Speaker 1: and here relates to words, their spellings, their meanings, and
Speaker 1: their oddities. So there's some tough ones you may wish
Speaker 1: to make liberal use of the pause button on your podcast.
Speaker 1: Contraption birthday shout outs. Luke from Fremont in California turned
Speaker 1: ten yesterday. Max from Avalon Beach just had his seventeenth Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we have Elizabeth from Washington, d C. Should be twenty five.
Speaker 1: Rudy's mate Vincent is celebrating his once in a lifetime
Speaker 1: golden birthday. He'll be nine on the ninth. We also
Speaker 1: have Jason from Port mcquarie he'll be thirty one, and
Speaker 1: today Jared from Lenexa, Kansas is thirty one as well.
Speaker 1: Aj from Mount Gambia is a milestone forty. Inez from
Speaker 1: Miami on the Goldie is ten years old, and twins
Speaker 1: Charlotte and Lucas from Sydney they're also having their golden birthdays.
Speaker 1: They are eight on the eighth of July. Today, Happy birthday.
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Craye, and today we won't stray from the wordplay. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the first of twenty five questions containing the same
Speaker 1: three letters. What is the past tense of the word eat?
Speaker 1: Eight at Question two? What four letter word is a
Speaker 1: man's name? A part of a duck and a proposed
Speaker 1: law bill? Question three? What type of gram is a
Speaker 1: sentence that uses all twenty six letters of the alphabet?
Speaker 1: For example, the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?
Speaker 1: What type of graham is that sentence? It's a pangram?
Speaker 1: Question four? Which US state might you associate with the
Speaker 1: latest sports shirt new Jersey? Question five? Which of the
Speaker 1: following words does not contain a doubles accessible, sustainable, dismissive,
Speaker 1: or impressionable sustainable? Okay? Question six, but tricky? What is
Speaker 1: both a person with a strict schedule and a beast
Speaker 1: formed from a nuns vestment? A person with a strict
Speaker 1: schedule and a beast formed from a nun's vestment a
Speaker 1: creature of habit? Question seven? Which letter is silent in
Speaker 1: the word debt? The B D E B T. Question
Speaker 1: eight A Somemordinal lap is the term for a word
Speaker 1: that becomes a different word when read backwards. For example,
Speaker 1: straw s t r a w becomes wartz w r
Speaker 1: t s. Where did the word some mordinal lap get
Speaker 1: its name? Some mordinal lap is palindromes spelt backwards? How's that?
Speaker 1: Question nine? What ghostly figure is an anagram of the
Speaker 1: word respect? Specter s p E C t r E.
Speaker 1: Question ten, beginning with R, what is the longest word
Speaker 1: in the English language without any vowels? Remember that pause
Speaker 1: button if you need more time, take as long as
Speaker 1: you need. It's rhythms r h y t hms Question eleven.
Speaker 1: Among hundreds of other common words, the words submerge, outbreak, eyeball, torture,
Speaker 1: and gossip were invented by whom William Shakespeare. Question twelve.
Speaker 1: What five letter word becomes shorter when two letters are
Speaker 1: added to it? Short? S HRT add two letters er shorter?
Speaker 1: Question thirteen. What two words that mean the same thing
Speaker 1: do you get by changing just one letter in each
Speaker 1: of Harrison Ford's names? I'll explain. So if you change
Speaker 1: the first letter in Harrison and you change the last
Speaker 1: letter in Ford, what two words do you get that
Speaker 1: roughly mean the same thing. Swap out the H in
Speaker 1: harrison with a G, you get garrison, and swap out
Speaker 1: the D in ford for a T, and you get
Speaker 1: fort Garrison fort. Question fourteen, which lung disease with six
Speaker 1: letters starts with a vowel, ends with a vowel, but
Speaker 1: has no vowels in between asthma as t h m A.
Speaker 1: Question fifteen, What gets wet when drying? Is that a
Speaker 1: trivia question or a riddle? I don't know, but it's
Speaker 1: a towel. Question sixteen, Removing which letter from the word
Speaker 1: window leaves a grieving wife? If you take away the N,
Speaker 1: you're left with a widow. Question seventeen. By rearranging the
Speaker 1: letters of RS Magna that's Latin for great art, what
Speaker 1: word can we create? That means rearranging the letters of
Speaker 1: a word or phrase to create another word or phrase.
Speaker 1: You rearrange the letters in RS Magna and you get anagram.
Speaker 1: Question eighteen, which homophone is both a grain used for
Speaker 1: food and something that happens on a regular basis? Cerial
Speaker 1: c R E A L and cerial s E R
Speaker 1: I A L. Question nineteen The American spelling of the
Speaker 1: words color, humor, and vapor all drop which vowel the you?
Speaker 1: Question twenty Caking a bake, or dats and cogs are
Speaker 1: examples of which s word seemingly related to cutlery. They're
Speaker 1: called spoonerisms, where the initial two sounds of two or
Speaker 1: more words are swapped around. Can be accidental or deliberate
Speaker 1: for comedic effect. We've got another five questions coming up
Speaker 1: for you in this Trivia Wordplay edition Here we Go.
Speaker 1: Question twenty one. A phrase that describes a person, place,
Speaker 1: or thing in a subtle or metaphorical way. Is an idiom,
Speaker 1: a euphemism, or an alliteration a euphemism? Question twenty two.
Speaker 1: Which word beginning with Q retains the same pronunciation when
Speaker 1: you take away four of its five letters? Take your time,
Speaker 1: have a think about it. Which word beginning with Q
Speaker 1: retains the same pronunciation when you take away four of
Speaker 1: its five letters? Well, the word is Q, Q U
Speaker 1: E UI. Take away the ui ui and you're left
Speaker 1: with a Q. Question twenty three. What two rhyming words
Speaker 1: might describe a terrifying pixie a scary fairy? Question twenty
Speaker 1: four Which tropical American fruit do you get by replacing
Speaker 1: the consonants in the word banana. Leave the a's where
Speaker 1: they are, replace the consonants and you can get a
Speaker 1: tropical American fruit. What is it papaya p a p
Speaker 1: a y A question twenty five which James Bond movie
Speaker 1: is an anagram of red golfing gold Finger. He's the man,
Speaker 1: the man with the Midas touch. And this is the
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Speaker 1: Today was one of those. Wednesday. We're doing the Australia
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