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QUIZ 72 – Words

1 What is the vehicle called in the UK that Americans call a trailer?

2 If someone is deliberately shunned, which English city are they said to be sent to?

3 What is an eponym?

4 What is the code-word for the ninth letter of the alphabet in radio communications?

5 According to the proverb, what do many hands make?

6 Which Latin word meaning “elsewhere” is a claim of absence from a crime scene?

7 Frigophobia is the fear of what?

8 From which language does the word “graffiti” originate?

9 What does the French word pomme mean?

10 According to the well-known phrase, how many words is a picture worth?

11 In Cockney rhyming slang what are “mince pies”?

12 What is a yawl?

13 Alphabetically, which is the first creature in the dictionary?

14 A piece of over-elaborate prose might be described as a passage of what colour?

15 What type of word is made from the initials of others?

16 Which word meaning “soon” is also an abbreviation meaning “not known by name”?

17 What is the more common description given to someone who is sinistral?

18 In which language is sayonara the word for “goodbye”?

19 What is the plural of mongoose?

20 According to the saying, on what does an army march?

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