What word entered the English language during one of Captain Cook’s voyages, and is related to a Polynesian word meaning “to tap”?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 22 April 2019
In 2007, Michael Cresta played the most valuable word in Scrabble history.
What word did he play? Was it Gherkins, Oxyphenbutazone, Quixotry, or Quizzify?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 15 March 2019
What is the most commonly used word in Scrabble?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 4 March 2019
What is a sploot?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 18 February 2019
In 1880, an Irish community began a campaign of ostracising a British land agent they felt had been treating them unfairly, refusing to harvest his crops, cook his meals, wash his clothes, deliver his letters, or serve him in shops.
What was the land agent’s surname? (His name became a word describing the campaign of exclusion.)
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Interesting Question of the Day – 23 November 2018
A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards. Like tacocat.
A phonetic palindrome is a phrase that sounds the same when played backwards.
Which of the following is NOT a phonetic palindrome?
“Do geese see god?”
“Funny enough.”
“Let Bob tell.”
or “You’re damn mad, Roy.”
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Interesting Question of the Day – 8 August 2018
With a change in pronunciation but no change in spelling, what word can be either a very small quantity or a period of time?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 6 August 2018
What are the better known opposites of the following obscure words?
Dysphemism
Eucatastrophe
Heteromaton
Onymous
Pessimum
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Interesting Question of the Day – 13 July 2018
Give us an seven letter word without the letters a, e, i, o, or u.
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Interesting Question of the Day – 15 June 2018
We’re going to give you dictionary definitions of one word movie titles. Name the movies.
Belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing. (1979)
Something that serves to warn or remind. (2000)
City and port on the Atlantic in western Morocco. (1942)
A sensation of motion in which the individual’s surroundings seem to whirl dizzily. (1958)
A subdivision of a company sized military unit normally consisting of two or more squads. (1986)
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