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Before I announce the answers and winners, here are a few stats!
There were 5,402 participants in the quiz.
757 players scored 100%!
The question that was missed the most (only 49% of players selected the correct answer) was…#17!
The question that was missed the least (98% of players got it right!) was…#7!
Here are the answers to the Word Nerd qiz!
ANSWERS
Q.3
You may be a word lover (or an urban hipster) if your daily vocabulary includes several:
malapropisms
***neologisms
collonialisms
anthropomorphisms
Q.4
In the wee hours of the morning, a dedicated lucubrator would more likely be found:
***writing
sleeping
cooking
gambling
Q.5
If you’re searching for a word to describe a person of whom you have a low opinion, you might NOT use this word:
rapscallion
profligate
poltroon
***altruistic
Q.6
Which word does not accurately describe a rotten potato?
***succulent
fetid
mephitic
pungent
Q.7
A diphthong is a(n):
Highly contagious bacterial disease causing inflammation of the mucous membranes
***Sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable
Undergarment designed to decrease panty lines
Ice cream cone coated in a hard chocolate shell
Q.8
A great sunset could NOT be described as
gleaming
refulgent
***aphotic
sublime
Q.9
Another word for lethargic is:
absetmious
***hebetudinous
alliaceous
hypogynous
Q.10
When you check out at a department store, are you more likely to be happy or angry when the clerk hands you a lagniappe?
***Happy
Angry
Q.11
After sleeping in the house all day, Charlie bounded outdoors for a __________ through the tall grass.
***lollop
scollop
dollop
wallop
Q.12
If you are micturating, you are probably in what room of the house?
kitchen
living room
laundry room
***bathroom
Q.13
When life’s cares piled up and Judy felt the weight of the world on her shoulders, she would close her eyes and long for the ________________ days of her youth.
impuissant
corposant
***insouciant
miscreant
Q.14
Which Disney movie has abyssopelagic scenes?
Enchanted
***Finding Nemo
Cinderella
Beauty and the Beast
Q.15
You may be a little bit too introspective if you find yourself practicing ____________.
***omphaloskepsis
telekenesis
thrombosis
cytokinesis
Q.16
A very jocular person would most likely have been voted __________ in her class.
most athletic
smartest
***funniest
most likely to succeed
Q.17
Barney, the purple dinosaur, might be one of your worst nightmares if you suffer from this:
***porphyrophobia
achluophobia
pteromerhanophobia
dinophobia
Q.18
Though they each experienced the many _____________ that forty years of living would bring, their abiding friendship remained steadfast to the end.
consuetudes
exactitudes
platitudes
***vicissitudes
Q.19
Which of the following words is not like the others?
flagrant
patent
***diffident
blatant
Q.20
The _____________ young man continually combed his hair, beholding his countenance in every store window that he passed.
complacent
***foppish
diaphanous
infallible
WINNERS
The first person to correctly answer all questions was…Laura M!
The randomly selected person from among the first 25 100% scores was…Casey C!
The randomly selected person from among the second 25 100% scores was…Linda P!
The randomly selected person from among all 100% scores was…Joe D!
Congrats to all the winners!
Let me know what you all think of the new scoring system.
New quizzes coming next week!