Palindromes Quiz

The clue for gig could be better. an entertainer's engagement or an device used in catching frogs or a hook device used to catch fish

Could you accept "ma'am" for "Hostess of ill repute"?

Sorry, I didn't mean to reply to your comment.

A brothel lady is not called ma'am.

I could be wrong but I think you're thinking of a jig.

No, all of those are gigs. When my dad lived in Georgia, my friends and I used to go out in the swamp at night with a bright light and go frog giggin'. A frog gig is a pole about a man's height long with four or five tines on the end, like a multi-pronged Neptune's trident. You shine a bright light into the swamp and when you see the eyes reflected (which blinds the frog temporarily) you spear ("gig") the frog on the end and flip it into the boat... then you pull off the legs, take off the skin, and cook 'em on the shore. Works for flatfish like flounder too if you use a bigger gig.

How is the frog or fish clue better? Hardly anyone (myself included) would get that and it could easily be hook, rod, etc.

My brothers used to go frog gigging. Maybe it's a southern US thing. Fried frog legs were as close as we got to gourmet food back then. (Just remember to clip the nerve in the legs or they would hop out of the frying pan while cooking.)

yeah, never heard of gig to refer to fishing for anything.

I think it's meant, like, Christmas Eve, or New Year's Eve, etc.

That is correct, even though it never made sense to me. It seems as though Christmas Eve should be the evening of Christmas day, not the night before. That has now led to the paradoxes of "Christmas Eve morning or Christmas Day night". I did some research and one explanation is that in medieval times the new day did not start at midnight, but rather at sundown. Therefore, Christmas and New Year's Day actually began at sundown on the previous evening.

Interesting, so thats why we celebrate halloween on all hallow's eve. All Hallow's starts in the evening of October 31st. cool

It's mostly because All Hallow's eve just became Halloween, I get that traditions are different but I mean Christmas wasn't exactly about fir trees originally, yet people buy them every year.

sorry, was trying to reply under tom88

yes but my point is that it's celebrated the night before the day considered to be all hallows day, not knowing what Ander said about it you would expect it to be celebrated on the actual day of the holiday. Simply noting that it makes sense now that I know that.

Also what do Christmas trees have to do with this? that's just another tradition that was stolen from the pagans by the christians, really has nothing to do with the whole 'eve' thing

You forgot Bolton = Notlob =P

Nah, it's a pun.

that's not a palindrome, but above said a pun, am I just missing something?

Make more of these quizzes! Also, my time was 3:33, which pleased me to no end.

If there could only be a different plural rule for this word, "Rulers of Iran" could have been "Imami".

That is what I thought at first

Accept mam for mum as that is what it is called in the north of england

Seconded

A man, a plan a canal panama.

Mr Owl ate my metal worm.

"Madam in Eden, I'm Adam." "Eve."

God, a red nugget, a fat egg under a dog

Longest one I know of is a book called "Satire: Veritas" by David Stephens. Something like 58,000 words long.

Wow! Oh...hey...'wow' might be the shortest palindrome!

Go hang a salami im a lasagna hog

Rats live on no evil star.

This one even retains the same spacing, unlike most palindrome sentences.

Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age!

Gender and sex are not the same thing. I would suggest changing that.

Not quite sure how loads of forms provide that evidence

Sorry Loyal, but usage does determine meaning.

+1 jkabq

Another accurate clue would be 'What "he" and "she"' signify.

How about including "Best-selling Swedish musical act"?

Never heard of madam used to describe a brother owner, only ever as an address... maybe a regional thing? But dictionary doesn't seem to indicate so

He ain't heavy he's my brother!

So are the French actually accusing every woman old enough to no longer be a mademoiselle of being of ill-repute?

Did anyone else get 'Ram's partner' wrong because they immediately thought of Ram as the Hindu deity and completely forgot about sheep?

I've never heard pop used for soda?!?

Where do you live? It's the most common term for it in the American Midwest and northwest. Even if soda or coke are more common in other parts of the country, most people in the US would at least know what someone is referring to when they say pop. Not sure about the rest of the world, but someone else mentioned above that "fizzy pop" is common where they live.

I live in Australia we just call the soft drink by its brand name (ie. Coke) or common name (ie. Lemonade Aid) otherwise just 'soft drink'. Pop isn't used to all, at least I haven't heard it before in that context besides American TV/Movies.

I have heard pop and soda my entire life, but NEVER have heard someone refer to soft drinks in general as "coke." I mean, I know people apparently do this in some regions, but I can't imagine someone having a 7-Up and saying "This coke is refreshing!"

There have been several maps made about where people use the different generic terms for soda/pop/etc
Here's one

Whenever I miss mom, I give her a call.

Suggestions to add: civic, Nauruan, Malayalam

That would be better than all those lazy 3-letter palindromes, yeah.

Kept reading the musical arrangement clue as, "Musical arrangements, for one". As in part of a larger group of things. Then it dawned on me.

Sex and gender are not the same thing - please change this

Not according to the dictionary

Oooohh, forgot to read the description that some answers are plural....

Our understanding of gender is based on biological sex and the two words can be used as synonyms.

And our understanding of this has changed so that is no longer the case.

You are confusing the word "my" with the word "our." Getting a degree in gender studies at Evergreen State doesn't give you the authority to start changing the definitions of words and then insisting everyone else is wrong to keep using them in the same way they always have.

Perhaps the clue for Iranian rulers could be changed to FORMER, as an Iranian ruler is an Ayatolla

(; A man a plan a canal panama ;)

I think that the plural ones should be denoted with an asterisk. As it currently stands they are a bit trickier than the others because ou might not realize the impact that a trailing s would have on the word.

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