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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 7:32pm ET 6/1/26
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google/AI/ChatGPT/Gemini IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions

We often hear from our players that the games are too hard! So we decided that this week everyone should have a list of possible answers.

The answers to questions 1-10 are all homophones with a letter in the English language. For our purposes, a homophone is a word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning and spelling.

Examples (and no these aren’t the answers!) include: "B" & “Bee” or "T" & “Tee”.



As long as you know your ABCs, you’ve got a great shot this week!

SCIENCE & TECH Q1. Medical Meanings: Folks get optometrists and ophthalmologists confused all the time. That’s because they are both types of medical professionals who treat what part of the body?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Boiling Beverages: “Pour me a cup of boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia” isn’t exactly something you hear every day. Rather we refer to what ubiquitous beverage that comes from the plant?



WORD PLAY Q3. Introductory Interjections: You don’t have to be a whiz to know that Merriam-Webster defines what interjection as “an introductory expletive, or to express surprise or enthusiasm”?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q4. Coat Classifications: Originally worn by European sailors, what type of coat is short length, broad lapels, double-breasted fronts, large buttons, and vertical or slash pockets?



MISCELLANEOUS Q5. Animal Action: Doe is to deer and sow is to pig, as WHAT is to sheep?



MISCELLANEOUS Q6. Broadway Bars: Take this as your…reminder that what homophone can really help on Broadway or at the snooker bar down the street?



MISCELLANEOUS Q7. Journalism Jargon: Journalism students are taught that there are five key inquisitions of newswriting. Which one fits the theme of this game?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q8. Lyric Letters: The U.S. national anthem has some different examples of letter homophones in the lyrics. Which one comes first in the song?



WORD PLAY Q9. Leading Letters: If you were to order all the letter homophones alphabetically, "aye" would come second and “be” would come third. Which three-letter word comes first?


WORD PLAY Q10. Substantive Substitutes : Most homophones with English letters are no more than three letters themselves, but what’s the longest one, coming in at five letters?


TIEBREAKER Pirate Phrases: “Shiver me timbers” is probably about the fifth-most popular phrase on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, celebrated every September 19 since its inception in what relatively recent year?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 6/1/26