Free Words Quiz
1. What is the name for a word or phrase which is spelled the same forwards as it is backwards?
A palindrome
2. What is the only word in the English language which ends with the letters ‘mt’?
dreamt (undreamt is also a word, but we are counting it as an extension of dreamt)
3. I have no feet but I can run. I give you health and also fun. What am I?
water
4. What do the following words have in common; rhythm, crypt, lynx and fly?
They are all words which do not contain any vowels
The last 6 questions all describe phobias. For each question you are given the name of the phobia, as the answer you need to say what each word is a fear of.
5. Ablutophobia
A fear of washing or bathing
6. Arachnophobia
A fear of spiders
7. Equinophobia
A fear of horses
8. Somniphobia
A fear of sleep
9. Mastigophobia
A fear of punishment
10. Taurophobia
A fear of bulls/cows
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