Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  Which four words end in "_dous"?

2)  Besides "angry" and "hungry," what other words end in "_gry"?

3)  On this date in 1952, the first toy commercial appeared on television. What toy was it?

4)  What fairy tale was the first to be printed in English?

Answers:

1)  stupendous, horrendous, tremendous, hazardous

2)  There are no stand-alone words besides angry and hungry that end in "_gry" - unless you
  • a) accept "gry," an obsolete unit of measurement invented by John Locke, or
  • b) you treat the question as a trick and offer the word "energy," which ends in _g-r-y, just not in that order.
3)  Mr. Potato Head

4)  "The History of Tom Thumb" was the first fairy tale to be published in English; it was published in 1621.

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