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Phil
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Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 747
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:32 am: |     |
1. What word has all 5 vowels in order (there are at least two)
2. What word has all 5 vowels in reverse order (there are at least four)
3a. What word has 3 pairs of double letters in a row (liek this: ?????aabbcc?????)
3b. What word has 4?
4a. What is the word for 1 followed by 100 zeros.
4b. What is the word for the largest number described by a single word (not counting infinity as a number)? (And, no, it's not gazillion!)
5. What are the four country names with only one syllable?
6. What word (not a proper noun) has three dotted letters in a row (i's and/or j's)?
7. What word changes from plural to singular when you add an S ? (Read this question carefully - there are at least 4)
8. What word consists only of letters with descenders? (gjpqy)
9. What number has it's letters in alphabetical order?
10. Conjunction junction: There are 118 conjunctions in Merriam Webster. What is the only one added in the 20th century?
11. What word is spelled the same (not counting accents) in nine languages (there are two)?
12. What common ten letter word can be typed with only the top row of a keyboard?
13. What 9 letter word reads the same if you hold a mirror at the bottom of it? (e.g. HEX)
14. What 5 letter word stays the same when you write it on paper and turn the paper upside-down (top to bottom, not flip over)?
14. What's the only common word in which f is pronounced v.
15. What common seven letter words can be played on a musical instrument (a to g only)?
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clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 98
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 6:39 am: | |
This is evil. 
OK here's the first one I've managed:
#12 typewriter
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greeneyes
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Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 471
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 6:55 am: | |
3a: Bookkeeper
edited to say-
DUH! So 3b would be subbookkeeper |
greeneyes
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Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 472
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 7:09 am: | |
# 8: gyp |
greeneyes
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Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 473
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 7:17 am: | |
#5: Spain, France, Chad, and Laos
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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 6354
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 8:30 am: | |
No. 1 is facetious |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 155
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 8:31 am: | |
#1: facetious |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1512
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 9:21 am: | |
#1) facetious
#2) subcontinental
#3a) Bookkeeper
#14) of
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
Cato Nova
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Username: Cato_nova
Post Number: 42
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 10:06 am: | |
#1. Also abstemious.
Coming back at you:
What is the shortest word with all five vowels?
4a./4b. Isn't that a googol? ANd the largest number expressed as a word googol plex?
6. hijinks
9. forty |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1911
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 12:45 pm: | |
#14 solos? |
clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 101
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 12:59 pm: | |
ffof, s turns into a sloppy z when you do a mirror image from below.
I think CHIDE works.
You can have more fun with this by using the letters EIODHKXCB.
#14 - CHIDE
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clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 102
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:02 pm: | |
Oops, I was using the rules for #13. Start Over!! |
clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 103
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:04 pm: | |
One more thing: ffof is right. solos works. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2070
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:52 pm: | |
#1: adventitious, if you don't mind two i's in a row, ignoring the consonant.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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usmale78
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Username: Usmale78
Post Number: 68
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 10:52 pm: | |
# 5 How about Guam
#6 Proper noun would be Fiji |
greeneyes
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Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 475
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 1:29 am: | |
Is Guam a country or a territory? |
dytunck
Citizen
Username: Dytunck
Post Number: 161
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 1:45 am: | |
So recapping:
1. What word has all 5 vowels in order (there are at least two) FACETIOUS - dave, lizziecat, duncan , ABSTEMIOUS - cato nova ADVENTITIOUS.......sorry no tom reingold
2. What word has all 5 vowels in reverse order (there are at least four) SUBCONTINENTAL - duncan
3a. What word has 3 pairs of double letters in a row (liek this: ?????aabbcc?????) BOOKKEEPER - greeneyes, duncan
3b. What word has 4? SUBBOOKKEEPER - greeneyes
4a. What is the word for 1 followed by 100 zeros. GOOGOL - cato nova
4b. What is the word for the largest number described by a single word (not counting infinity as a number)? (And, no, it's not gazillion!) GOOGOLPLEX - cato nova
5. What are the four country names with only one syllable? FRANCE, SPAIN, CHAD, LAOS - greeneyes GUAM - usmale .... not a country, it's part of the USA. (I think GREECE should be counted, not LAOS.)
6. What word (not a proper noun) has three dotted letters in a row (i's and/or j's)? HIJINX - cato nova
7. What word changes from plural to singular when you add an S ? (Read this question carefully - there are at least 4) KIDS (plural noun), SKIDS (singular verb) / POTS (plural noun ) SPOTS (singular verb)/ ORTS (plural) SORTS (singular verb) /HIPS (plural noun ) SHIPS (singular verb)
8. What word consists only of letters with descenders? (gjpqy) GYP - greeneyes
9. What number has it's letters in alphabetical order? FORTY - cato nova
10. Conjunction junction: There are 118 conjunctions in Merriam Webster. What is the only one added in the 20th century?
11. What word is spelled the same (not counting accents) in nine languages (there are two)? SUBMARINE COMPUTER
12. What common ten letter word can be typed with only the top row of a keyboard? TYPEWRITER - clkelley
13. What 9 letter word reads the same if you hold a mirror at the bottom of it? (e.g. HEX) CHIDE - clkelley
14. What 5 letter word stays the same when you write it on paper and turn the paper upside-down (top to bottom, not flip over)? solos - ffof
14. What's the only common word in which f is pronounced v. OF - duncan
15. What common seven letter words can be played on a musical instrument (a to g only)? DEFACED
Dytunck
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clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 109
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 9:05 am: | |
Dytunck, thanks for giving me credit for #13, but last I checked "chide" only has five letters!!! ( I spaced out on this one, was actually trying to answer the first #14). I've been going INSANE trying to discover a nine-letter word that works. I've come up with lots of 8-letter words, but not a single 9-letter word. |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1936
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 9:11 am: | |
so what's 10 and I don't get 7. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2118
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 10:31 am: | |
#13: IMMITATIVE
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2119
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 10:35 am: | |
Oops, that's wrong. Never mind. The 'E' disqualifies it.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Phil
Citizen
Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 748
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 3:03 am: | |
Answers:
#10: IFF is a word invented to mean "if and only if." According to MWCD10, it can be pronounced three ways: "if and only if," like "if," and like "if" but with a prolonged "F." There are 118 conjunctions in MWCD10; IFF is the only "new" conjunction, first seen in print in 1955.
#13: CHECKBOOK
#14: not bad. I was thinking of: SWIMS
#7 was miswritten. It should read:
7. What word changes from plural to singular when you add an S AT THE END? (Read this question carefully - there are at least 4)
One is: PRINCES, PRINCESS
#5 I was thinking of CHAD, FRANCE, GREECE, SPAIN
Thanks for playing!
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Phil
Citizen
Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 749
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 3:26 am: | |
Bonus Question:
16. What's the smallest number which, when written, contains the letter "A". (Bet it's higher than you think) |
sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 969
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 8:31 am: | |
Is it thousand? (or one thousand) |
Gene Z
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Username: Genez
Post Number: 6
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:02 pm: | |
#15 = cabbage.
Credit goes to Mrs. Z |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2160
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
#15 is also baggage.
I don't see how CHECKBOOK can look the same in the mirror. C and K are not symmetrical. Or maybe I don't understand the problem.
We ate at the Maplewood Diner last night. I quizzed my wife and kids: The waitress's name was the same as a form of my name, with one letter changed.
Also, earlier that day, they had gone shopping at the Salvation Army on Springfield Ave in Irvington. I said, "So you went to the SA on SA." Big rolled eyes and "Dad you are SUCH a dork."
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 972
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 12:53 pm: | |
I think that, for this purpose, the mirror is placed along the top (or bottom) of the words rather than at the end or beginning. Although, in some fonts, the B and K are not symmetric in that direction. |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 745
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 2:38 pm: | |
One hundred and one.
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sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 974
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 10:51 pm: | |
I don't think that the "and" is correct. I was always taught to write and say numbers without the "and". Perhaps an English teacher could confirm or correct my impression on this. |
dytunck
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Username: Dytunck
Post Number: 162
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 1:13 pm: | |
16. What's the smallest number which, when written, contains the letter "A". (Bet it's higher than you think)
One Quarter
Dytunck
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2178
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 1:28 pm: | |
Are fractions allowed in question 16? We could go smaller and smaller, like to one thousandth. And we could go infinitely into negative numbers, too.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 746
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2004 - 8:11 am: | |
One Hundred and One = 100.1
One Hundred One = 101 |
Phil
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Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 750
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:58 pm: | |
The answer I was thinking of was (without getting too clever)
One thousand. |
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