If anyone thought this quiz was too easy, I made one that is significantly more challenging. You can find it under my quizzes titled "Very Tricky Analogies." Feel free to comment on it, as I never get on anyone's case for expressing their opinions. Holding someone accountable for their opinions... or expressing a different contrary opinion... that's obviously different.
I read one of the ASoUE books with my girlfriend's 8 year old daughter once and found it very well-written and enjoyable (much moreso than Harry Potter or Percy Jackson)... but I knew the definition of penultimate long before that. Penultimate is a word that can be used in a lot of different situations whereas ambrosia is specifically in the domain of a particular mythology. I imagine that's why fewer people know it.
No, but I did try Tera which is billion on the metric long scale. Also, In my opinion, a scene would be more like a page than a chapter. An act would be analogous to a chapter.
loganite, I agree with you. The French coined the word "billion" first and it meant a million squared. It was later adopted by the British too. Subsequently the Americans used it to mean a thousand million (just to be different, I presume). Later still the French capitulated and so more recently did the BBC. I didn't. So to me a billion means what it originally meant - a million squared. Thus, to me "Tera" is the right answer. Will you accept it?
Language is fluid and always evolving whether we like it or not. If you insist on using an archaic definition of a word that has since come to mean something else, you're the one using the word incorrectly.
Except, if you allowed your navel gazing muricanism to rest for a bit, you would realize that many other countries still use that "archaic" form. And the fact that Quizmaster wouldn't accept that but accepts some horrendous mispellings of names, should illustrate quite a bit what the bottom line is (hint: it's not about accuracy). Just like in every other instance of "the US does it one way, most of the world does it differently". But muricans will murican.
He had an extensive filmography including The Hunger Games series, The Big Lebowski, Patch Adams, The Talented Mr. Ripley - and he won an Oscar for portraying Truman Capote.
I thought this was a poor clue, basil is a herb, basically for flavour. the analogous constituent of hummous should surely be garlic, or possibly lemon juice.
I get what you're going for with the library and the bank, and it's pretty obvious what the answer is, but I don't think they're really the same thing. Cause you know, you can't exactly check out all the money you want from a bank with a membership to the bank.
This was an interesting one, sadly I got stuck on the ambrosia one, about which I had literally no idea. All I could think of was that Ambrosia is a popular brand of custard in the UK. That didn't help very much....
Here I was thinking that Mega and Millions were referring to the lottery in the US, and was trying to rack my brain for a lottery program that paid out a billion...
No one ever mentions them without their middle name. EVER!!