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5-Letter Word Chain Game #3

For each hint, enter a 5-letter word. The last letter of this word will be the first letter of the next word.
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Last updated: February 5, 2020
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First submittedNovember 14, 2014
Times taken73,290
Average score71.9%
Rating4.31
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Hint
Answer
Land of the pharaohs
Egypt
Higher than baritone
Tenor
Sport with scrums
Rugby
Its wasted on the young
Youth
Head covering for Muslim women
Hijab
Stereotypical French hat
Beret
Dalai Lama's home country
Tibet
This symbol: ~
Tilde
Poe's first name
Edgar
Joaquin's brother
River
Like a circle
Round
Blue jean material
Denim
Sorcery
Magic
Animal with one hump or two
Camel
Game that asks "how low can you go"
Limbo
"The Magic Flute", for example
Opera
Hint
Answer
Bottomless pit
Abyss
Gomorrah's partner in crime
Sodom
U.S. city with a large Cuban population
Miami
Homeric epic
Iliad
Inebriated
Drunk
Clumsy person
Klutz
Zero, zip, nada
Zilch
Seventeen syllable poem
Haiku
Milk producing organ
Udder
Religious artifact
Relic
Ascend
Climb
Instrument used in bluegrass music
Banjo
Bulb with countless layers
Onion
Belly button
Navel
Gaddafi's country
Libya
Honeycrisp, pink lady, etc ...
Apple
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Level 54
Apr 17, 2015
Well Tibet is not a country...it really is a disputed region of China, but not independent. You could say region, area or disputed region....
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Level 63
Jul 12, 2017
Tibet used to be a country so maybe they were born when it was a country.
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Level 71
Dec 14, 2023
Yes, this is the case, thought its status was somewhat disputed depending on the context (the true situation is sometimes complicated, as it is for some states today). In my opinion Jetpunk would probably consider Tibet an independent country until the invasion and occupation by the PRC in 1951.

In our modern world, we have a pretty solid taxonomy of what a country is, with a healthy smattering of edge cases and ambiguities to resolve. This taxonomy really breaks down the more historical you get, and in a quiz like this I wouldn't expect to be very strict about it. William Wallace's home country is Scotland, and the Dalai Lama's home country is Tibet, even if these are only countries in some non-sovereign sense today.

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Level 72
Dec 14, 2023
FREE TIBET
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Level 68
Dec 19, 2023
I'll take it! Do you also deliver?
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Level 75
Apr 17, 2015
Only missed hijab. Great quiz, but in the future will you please refrain from adding any words which I do not know so I can get a perfect score? ( I'd hate to think I learned something new today.) ;-)
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Level 51
Feb 20, 2018
Seconded...
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Level 75
Apr 17, 2015
Got them all with 4:08 left - awesome!
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Level 42
Apr 17, 2015
A nice easy one!
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Level 45
Apr 18, 2015
Oh man, camel... would you like one hump or two?

... that's just what popped into my head.

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Level 58
Jan 4, 2017
Gimme a whole lotta humps!
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Level 84
Jul 12, 2017
What hump?
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Level 74
Apr 22, 2015
Have I only just noticed or are there suddenly a whole bunch of questions which require the answer "navel"?
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Level 62
May 14, 2015
fun game ... got them with 3:55 left.
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Level 41
Dec 15, 2015
Strictly speaking, the Magic Flute is not a classic opera (although by general public it is widely regarded as such), but a singspiel, which means that the narrative passages between arias, ensembles and choruses, which in an opera proper would be sung in recitativo, are spoken. Maybe it would be better to chose another well known example?
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Level 55
Jan 8, 2017
I was thinking burqa...
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Level 30
Jul 12, 2017
Damn i stuffed up, i thought that it had to be things related to egypt so i only got the first one
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Level 68
Jul 12, 2017
Classic!
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Level 84
Jul 12, 2017
Dang, missed udder. Just drew a complete blank. I guess I didn't ever think of a cow's udder as being an organ, per se. Now if you had said "cow boobs".... :-P
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Level 77
Feb 16, 2020
Pull the udder leg.
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Level 87
Jun 28, 2023
The cows name is Norman...
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Level 41
Jul 12, 2017
Fun !!
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2017
I'm not familiar with "The Magic Flute." Is that a notable opera? I'm far from an expert, but I've never heard of it. Thankfully I was able to figure it out after I had filled in everything else by just thinking of 5 letter words that started and ended with the right letters.
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Level 67
Jul 12, 2017
Yes. It is by Mozart. I believe it was his last opera to premiere before his death.
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Level 66
Aug 14, 2019
it is die Zauberflöte. It is Mozart most famous and most performed opera, and yes it is a singspiel, but that is a genre/type of opera.
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Level 23
Jul 12, 2017
Quizmaster- Can you please accept clutz for klutz
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Level 69
Jul 12, 2017
And Drunc for Drunk??
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Level 67
Jul 12, 2017
The answer has to start with the last letter of the word that preceded it ("drunk"). So it has to start with K or the rule of the game doesn't apply.
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Level 78
Jul 13, 2017
It took me forever to think of "tilde". Even though I know the word, I needed the first and last letters, plus 2 minutes to think of it. If it were above an ñ, I would have gotten it right away... but by itself it spurs thoughts of "about" or "approximately".
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Level 76
Nov 8, 2023
Well yeah, that's what it usually means when it's by itself, but the symbol is still called a tilde in that context.
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Level 56
Dec 1, 2017
Was cruising through the questions until I hit a snag...

at "APPLE"!!!

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Level 49
Apr 11, 2018
Only missed tilde. Can never remember that!
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Level 48
Oct 6, 2018
strictly speaking, modern haiku is not limited to 17 syllables... it can be up to 17, though few modern haikuists use that ...

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2011/09/24/what-is-the-essence-of-modern-american-haiku/

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Level 77
Jun 19, 2020
Strictly speaking, modern haikus are not real haiku, but real haikus don't need to have 17 syllables. They need to have 17 "on" or morae. "On" can be loosely translated to "syllable", but traditional Japanese, as far as I know, doesn't have diphthongs like English. Meaning a word like "cowboy", which has two diphthongs, would actually count as four "on". So what I'm saying, long story short, is all the haikus you've written in English are probably wrong and therefore awful. Just awful.

It's snowing on Mount Fuji.

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Level 68
Dec 19, 2023
This is an absolutely useless piece of information, presented in a somewhat insulting way. Thanks, Dimby, I genuinely love it!!
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Level 80
Jun 19, 2020
Please accept mezzo-soprano for 'higher than baritone'.
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Level 49
Jun 21, 2020
It's a chain. So it has to start with a T since Egypt ends with a T.
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Level 63
Jun 10, 2021
And it also has to be 5 letters.
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Level 75
Oct 28, 2023
And some jokes fell on stony ground...
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Level 73
Jun 19, 2020
Can't believe that more people know haiku than pink lady, relic, River Phoenix or zilch.
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Level 66
May 8, 2021
Well, when english's not your first language, you may never have heard of "zilch" (that's my case), but still know about haikus, which have the original name in every language.

Plus, I knew "Joaquin" stood for Joaquin Phoenix, but I had absolutely no idea he had a famous brother.

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Level 55
Dec 14, 2023
Or klutz. Who uses that word outside the US?
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Level 49
Dec 15, 2021
How did less than half get tilde?
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Level 71
Oct 28, 2023
I think it would be more accurate to describe relic as a historic artefact, not a religious artefact.
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Level ∞
Oct 28, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic
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Level 68
Dec 15, 2023
Quite hard, 12/32.