Five-Letter Answers 2
In the spirit of Wordle, take five with this wordy general trivia game featuring answers that are just five letters long.
15 questions · Published February 14, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Pyrexia, better known as _________, is a common symptom of many illnesses.
FUN FACT
Pyrexia, the medical term for fever, derives from the Greek word for fire.
- Multiple Choice
2. Which of these words appears first in the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
The word broad appears in the first line of the second stanza ("Whose broad stripes and bright stars"). The other words first occur in the song's third stanza.
- Multiple Choice
3. Which of these books comes first in the Bible?
Hosea is the 28th book of the Old Testament, appearing four books before Jonah; both Titus and James are in the New Testament.
- Multiple Choice
4. What Yiddish word means "to be overcome with pride over the actions and accomplishments of someone else"?
Grandparents are known to kvell over their grandkids' soccer matches and good grades.
To plotz means to collapse; a punim is a cute face (usually a child's); and a spiel is a lengthy speech or story.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which of these five-letter words is defined as "written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure"?
In its simplest definition, prose is just non-verse writing. Pretty much anything other than poetry—from a newspaper article to the U.S. Constitution to a "Harry Potter" novel—is considered prose.
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