Five random questions today.
Billy the Kid was shot and killed at Fort Sumner by whom?
Whose first novel was When the Lion Feeds?
Tennis: The Woodies won six Wimbledon men’s doubles titles. What were their surnames?
DOUBLY TUNED is an anagram of an English word, an adverb meaning certainly. What is the word?
Simon and Garfunkel’s first U.S. number one single hit was what?
Good luck! I’ll post the answer later.
Here are the answers to my earlier post.
Today you need to solve geographic anagrams. These ANAGRAMS are all written in capitals. For example
WATCHING DONS at Georgetown University
One answer: a capital city
You would be looking for a capital city and your answer would be an anagram of WATCHING DONS: Washington DC
Don’t be in DENIAL about the change to old NICKEL ON TUMMY — a lofty environment in the new world.
Two answers: both the same place with a changed name
The Koyukon people have long called the mountain ‘Denali’. In 1896, a gold prospector named it ‘Mount McKinley’ in honour of presidential candidate William McKinley, who later became the 25th president. This name was officially recognised by the U.S. federal government from 1917 until 2015. In August 2015, the Obama administration restored the name Denali, aligning with Alaska’s official naming from 1975. However, in January 2025, the Trump administration reverted the official federal name back to Mount McKinley.
JAVA ROSE is the capital of HONING BAZAAR NOSEDIVE
Two answers: the city and the European country it is capital of.
Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a prominent cultural centre in the Balkans. With a rich history dating back to the 15th century, it hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics and is recognised for its religious and cultural diversity. Despite enduring the longest siege of a capital city during the Bosnian War, Sarajevo is now the fastest-growing city in the country.
BET NUMEROUS eruptions have been seen from this southernmost volcano
One answer: a volcano.
Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano on Earth, is located on Ross Island in Antarctica. Named by Captain James Clark Ross in 1841, it has a long-lived lava lake and was the site of the 1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901 crash.
BEACHFRONT BLUNDERING DAFFODILS are the capitals of the four nations that make up this one constitutional monarchy: NOT MINK GUIDED
Five answers: the first anagram hides the four capital cities, while the second reveals a constitutional monarchy.
London—capital of England and UK. While Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, Cardiff—capital of Wales and Belfast—capital of Northern Ireland.
ADIOS KARATE NINJA, according to the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects 2025 this city is the world’s most populous.
Two answers: one anagram hides the name of the city and the country it is in.
Population 41,913,860. Jakarta, the capital and largest city of Indonesia, is a major economic, cultural, and political centre. Despite its small area, its metropolitan area is the largest in the world, attracting migrants from across Indonesia. However, Jakarta faces challenges like rapid urban growth, ecological breakdown, and flooding, prompting plans to move the capital to Nusantara.
Today you need to solve geographic anagrams. These ANAGRAMS are all written in capitals. For example
WATCHING DONS at Georgetown University
One answer: a capital city
You would be looking for a capital city and your answer would be an anagram of WATCHING DONS: Washington DC
Don’t be in DENIAL about the change to old NICKEL ON TUMMY — a lofty environment in the new world.
Two answers: both the same place with a changed name
JAVA ROSE is the capital of HONING BAZAAR NOSEDIVE
Two answers: the city and the European country it is capital of.
BET NUMEROUS eruptions have been seen from this southernmost volcano
One answer: a volcano.
BEACHFRONT BLUNDERING DAFFODILS are the capitals of the four nations that make up this one constitutional monarchy: NOT MINK GUIDED
Five answers: the first anagram hides the four capital cities, while the second reveals a constitutional monarchy.
ADIOS KARATE NINJA, according to the United Nations’ World Urbanization Prospects 2025 this city is the world’s most populous.
Two answers: one anagram hides the name of the city and the country it is in.
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
Here are the answers to my earlier post.
The theme for today’s questions repeats yesterday’s: five words, each beginning with a different letter — W, O, R, D, and S. Each word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary and is presented below with three possible meanings. Simply choose the correct one for each.
A. Small shears; secateurs
B. A direction contrary to the sun’s course; anticlockwise
C. Woollen leggings; gaiters
adverb mainly Scottish English in a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise: she danced widdershins around him.
– ORIGIN early 16th century: from Middle Low German weddersins, from Middle High German widersinnes, from wider ‘against’ + sin ‘direction’; the second element was associated with Scots sin ‘sun’.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. An estate held in absolute ownership, without acknowledgement to a superior.
B. A hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization.
C. The muscular third stomach of a ruminant animal
noun (plural omasa /əʊˈmeɪsə/) Zoology the muscular third stomach of a ruminant animal, between the reticulum and the abomasum. Also called psalterium
– ORIGIN mid 16th century: from Latin, literally ‘tripe’, probably from Gaulish.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. In Palaeontology relating to unicorns
B. The scientific study of water loss from riverine systems
C. Anatomy relating to the nose or the olfactory part of the brain
adjective Anatomy relating to the nose or the olfactory part of the brain.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century: from Greek rhis, rhin- ‘nose’ + -al.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. One who is an identical twin
B. An adolescent male kangaroo or wallaby
C. An unsophisticated or unintelligent person; a country bumpkin
noun (plural dubbos) Australian English informal, derogatory an unsophisticated or unintelligent person, especially someone from the countryside; a bumpkin: why was she working with such a bunch of dubbos?
– ORIGIN 1980s: from the name of a famous farming town in New South Wales.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. A pole and bucket system to collect well water
B. A shadow-like spectre
C. A Jewish professional matchmaker or marriage broker
noun a pole with a bucket and counterpoise used especially in Egypt for raising water.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century: from Egyptian Arabic šādūf.
— Oxford English Dictionary
The theme for today’s questions repeats yesterday’s: five words, each beginning with a different letter — W, O, R, D, and S. Each word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary and is presented below with three possible meanings. Simply choose the correct one for each.
A. Small shears; secateurs
B. A direction contrary to the sun’s course; anticlockwise
C. Woollen leggings; gaiters
A. An estate held in absolute ownership, without acknowledgement to a superior.
B. A hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization.
C. The muscular third stomach of a ruminant animal
A. In Palaeontology relating to unicorns
B. The scientific study of water loss from riverine systems
C. Anatomy relating to the nose or the olfactory part of the brain
A. One who is an identical twin
B. An adolescent male kangaroo or wallaby
C. An unsophisticated or unintelligent person; a country bumpkin
A. A pole and bucket system to collect well water
B. A shadow-like spectre
C. A Jewish professional matchmaker or marriage broker
Good luck! The answers will be posted later.
Today’s questions focus on five words, each starting with a different letter: W, O, R, D, S. These words are all found in the Oxford English Dictionary. Each word is listed below with three definitions, so simply select the correct one for each.
A. A barrel with a capacity of 12 pecks (24 gallons)
B. A grandchild
C. The sky or heavens
noun literary the sky or heaven.
– ORIGIN Old English wolcen ‘cloud, sky’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wolk and German Wolke.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. A poisonous white crystalline glycoside
B. A two-wheeled cart
C. A witches potion
noun [mass noun] Chemistry a toxic compound obtained from certain trees, used as a very rapid cardiac stimulant. It is a polycyclic glycoside.
– ORIGIN late 19th century: via French from Somali wabayo, denoting a tree that yields poison (used on arrow points) containing ouabain.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. Unified register of official documents.
B. An order of reptiles characterised by a bony plate shell covered in horny scales.
C. The layer of unconsolidated solid material covering a planet’s bedrock.
noun [mass noun] Geology the layer of unconsolidated solid material covering the bedrock of a planet.
– ORIGIN late 19th century: from Greek rhēgos ‘rug, blanket’ + -lith.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. An apprentice printer
B. A judge
C. A person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge
noun a judge (of whom there are two) in the Isle of Man judiciary.
– ORIGIN Middle English (originally a general word for a judge): from deem + -ster. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A. A magnesium flare
B. A spiritual leader
C. A Vietnamese roasted snake dish
noun A spiritual adviser, often a monk or religious hermit, in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
A religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
— American Heritage Dictionary
Here are the answers to my earlier post.
Thomas Hart Benton’s 1948 painting Poker Night depicts a scene from which Tennessee Williams play?
What skill can be called funambulism?
A ribauldequin was a type of musical instrument. Is this true or false?
It was a type of multiple barrelled gun
The Taj Mahal is located on the south bank of what river?
The Taj Mahal, an ivory-white marble mausoleum in Agra, India, was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1631 to house the tomb of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Who is the world’s best-selling fiction writer?
The world’s best-selling fiction writer is the late Dame Agatha Christie (née Miller, later Lady Mallowan, 1890–1976), whose 78 crime novels have sold an estimated 2 billion copies in 44 languages. Agatha Christie (UK) also wrote 19 plays and, under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, six romantic novels. Royalty earnings are estimated to be worth millions per year.
— Guinness World Records 05/10/2025.
Here are five unrelated questions.
Thomas Hart Benton’s 1948 painting Poker Night depicts a scene from which Tennessee Williams play?
What skill can be called funambulism?
A ribauldequin was a type of musical instrument. Is this true or false?
The Taj Mahal is located on the south bank of what river?
Who is the world’s best-selling fiction writer?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
The answers to my earlier post are shown below.
From which Asian language does the word ’jungle‘ originate?
jungle /ˈdʒʌŋɡl /
▸ noun
1 an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics:
we set off into the jungle
[mass noun] the lakes are hidden in dense jungle.
- a wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things:
the garden was a jungle of bluebells.- a situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness:
it’s a jungle out there.2 [mass noun] (also jungle music) a style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s.
– PHRASES the law of the jungle the principle that those who are strong and apply ruthless self-interest will be most successful: power politics reflected the law of the jungle.
– DERIVATIVES jungled adjective
– ORIGIN late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’.
— Oxford English Dictionary
A Scrabble board has how many squares to place tiles in?
Scrabble, invented in 1931 by Alfred Mosher Butts, is a word game played on a 15×15 grid. Hasbro produces it in the US and Canada, while Mattel holds the rights for international production.
In four English-speaking countries, a specific word is used to describe a particular capacity, ranging from as low as 237 millilitres to as much as 250 millilitres. What is this term?
A measure of capacity used in cooking. In the US and Canada it is equal to half a US pint, therefore 8 fluid ounces or 237 millilitres. In the UK it is 10 fluid ounces or 284 millilitres and Australia it is 250 millilitres.
A triskaidecagon, or tridecagon, has how many sides?
In geometry, a tridecagon, also known as a triskaidecagon or 13-gon, is a thirteen-sided polygon, see image above.
What ‘H’ is an alphabet containing the word ‘qoph’?
Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق. It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪄, South Arabian 𐩤, and Ge’ez ቀ.
All About words and numbers today.
From which Asian language does the word ’jungle‘ originate?
A Scrabble board has how many squares to place tiles in?
In four English-speaking countries, a specific word is used to describe a particular capacity, ranging from as low as 237 millilitres to as much as 250 millilitres. What is this term?
A triskaidecagon, or tridecagon, has how many sides?
What ‘H’ is an alphabet containing the word ‘qoph’?
Good luck! I will post the answers later today.
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