Palindromes Quiz

A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same both forwards and backwards. Can you name these palindromes based on a definition?
Some answers are plural
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Definition
Word
Storm or aircraft detector
Radar
Real estate document
Deed
Short for mother
Mom
Night before
Eve
Canoe alternative
Kayak
Genders
Sexes
One-time musical job
Gig
Keeps food off your clothes
Bib
Habit wearer
Nun
Iranian rulers
Shahs
Tool that measures flatness
Level
Made into a god
Deified
Musical arrangements for one
Solos
Mid-day
Noon
Viking epics
Sagas
Hostess of ill repute
Madam
More scarlet
Redder
Optic organ
Eye
Ram's partner
Ewe
Soda
Pop
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Level 32
Oct 24, 2012
I'm confused by the clue to "eve". Is that word specifically used for past evenings?

Otherwise, great quiz!

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Level 45
Jul 18, 2014
I think it's meant, like, Christmas Eve, or New Year's Eve, etc.
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Level 51
Apr 9, 2015
It is often used as the eve before something else. As in New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve...
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Level 75
Jan 29, 2017
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.
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Level 38
Oct 21, 2019
It's also used for All Hallows Eve, which is in ten days time.
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Level 72
Oct 25, 2019
Interesting, so thats why we celebrate halloween on all hallow's eve. All Hallow's starts in the evening of October 31st.

cool

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Level 59
Oct 26, 2019
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.
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Level 59
Oct 26, 2019
sorry, was trying to reply under tom88
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Level 72
Oct 28, 2019
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.
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Level 72
Oct 28, 2019
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
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Level 64
May 13, 2020
Also "the eve of her coronation," "the eve of their wedding," etc.
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Level 20
Aug 14, 2013
You forgot Bolton = Notlob =P
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Level 81
Dec 25, 2014
That's inter-city rail for you.
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Level 62
Sep 20, 2015
Nah, it's a pun.
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Level 59
Oct 26, 2019
that's not a palindrome, but above said a pun, am I just missing something?
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Level 65
Aug 24, 2014
Make more of these quizzes! Also, my time was 3:33, which pleased me to no end.
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Level 55
Mar 16, 2015
If there could only be a different plural rule for this word, "Rulers of Iran" could have been "Imami".
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Level 30
Mar 17, 2015
That is what I thought at first
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Level 69
Aug 25, 2016
They've definitely been known to add flavor.
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Level 46
Sep 5, 2017
Nice
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Level 41
Mar 16, 2015
Accept mam for mum as that is what it is called in the north of england
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Level 72
Oct 20, 2019
Seconded
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Level ∞
Oct 20, 2019
Okay
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Level 40
Mar 17, 2015
madam i'm adam...........longest palindrome I know:)
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Level 71
Nov 29, 2015
A man, a plan a canal panama.
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Level 37
Jul 22, 2018
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
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Level 52
May 13, 2020
Go hang a salami! I’m a lasagna hog.
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Level 83
Dec 4, 2015
Mr Owl ate my metal worm.
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Level 68
Jun 16, 2016
"Madam in Eden, I'm Adam."

"Eve."

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Level 48
Nov 18, 2016
Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog.
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Level 62
Jul 22, 2018
God, a red nugget, a fat egg under a dog
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Level 92
Nov 18, 2016
Longest one I know of is a book called "Satire: Veritas" by David Stephens. Something like 58,000 words long.
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Level 74
Nov 2, 2019
Wow! Oh...hey...'wow' might be the shortest palindrome!
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Level 78
Sep 24, 2021
"I" must be the shortest palindrome
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Level 72
Dec 6, 2023
That's "only" letters. Dr Awkward and Olson in Oslo has ~32000 words though.
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Level 54
Nov 18, 2016
Go hang a salami im a lasagna hog
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2018
Rats live on no evil star.
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2018
This one even retains the same spacing, unlike most palindrome sentences.
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Level 75
Oct 21, 2019
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
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Level 60
Oct 25, 2019
Doc, note, I dissent; a fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
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Level 64
May 13, 2020
This one is the best!
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Level 76
Feb 13, 2020
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
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Level 77
Jul 15, 2020
Wo, Nemo. Toss a lasso to me now!
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Level 72
Dec 6, 2023
"Tacit, I hate gas, (aroma of evil), a nut, sleep, no meIons, drawers, bards, Eta Delta, ebon, a hare, macaroni, stone raps, id, a lass lion, apses, ore, lines, a loner, war oh, bait I hate! - jam, ugh; cabs, warts too, spas, Odin, roes. I revile dope, naps, a wagon ­add a sob - oh, damn it~(so do dodos, ahem) - lepers? mark up a love. ­sips, editors, tops, rime, denim, repose (alas, simoleons), loops, rats, gals, a tar bag and a maniac Cain, a mad nag, a brat , a sIag star, spooIs, Noel - 0 Miss Al Aesop, ermined emirs, pots, rot I despise; Volapuk, rams repel me (ha! so do dodos), tin, mad hobos, add a nog, a wasp, an epode, liver. I scorn "I do," sap, soot, straws, Bach, gum - a jet? ah, it I abhor ­a wren? 0 Ial senile roses, pan oils, salad; I spare not sin or a camera (ha! no BeatIe), dates, drabs, rewards, no lemon peels, tuna, live foam or a sage Tahiti cat."
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Level 51
Mar 19, 2015
Gender and sex are not the same thing. I would suggest changing that.
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Level 77
Jul 15, 2020
Haha...i was specifically looking for this comment. Figured SOMEONE would have something to say about it.
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Level 75
Mar 29, 2022
Well, it's true.
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Level 74
Jun 7, 2015
How about including "Best-selling Swedish musical act"?
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Level 33
Nov 29, 2015
Dr. Awkward is a fun one
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Level 69
Feb 5, 2016
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
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Level 71
Jan 29, 2017
He ain't heavy he's my brother!
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Level 66
Aug 30, 2017
Did anyone else get 'Ram's partner' wrong because they immediately thought of Ram as the Hindu deity and completely forgot about sheep?
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Level 55
Jul 27, 2018
Exactly! Kept running through options: Sita? Hanuman? Lakshman? But the quiz seemed pretty America-centric -- it assumed people would know "pop" and who the heck Dale Earnhardt is -- so I finally realized it wouldn't be asking something that "obscure" within the context. Got it quickly then.
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Level 69
Jun 5, 2020
Maybe it should be "A ram's partner"
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Level 68
Jun 5, 2020
I got it, but Sita was my first thought
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Level 75
Mar 29, 2022
Yup.
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Level 51
Jan 10, 2018
I've never heard pop used for soda?!?
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Level 66
Jun 29, 2018
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.
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Level 76
Oct 21, 2019
Probably the most common term in Britain too
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Level 51
Oct 25, 2019
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.
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Level 37
Jul 22, 2018
How about "Limonada" for any fizzy drink, from colored sodas (Orange, Pineapple, Cherry, Strawberry to Coca Cola and Pepsi?
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Level 86
Oct 21, 2019
Limonada is not exactly a palindrome, is it?
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Level 38
Oct 21, 2019
Pop is also used in the UK. I assumed it was a British thing so it's interesting to see it's used on parts of the U.S. too.
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Level 85
Oct 24, 2019
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!"
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Level 72
Oct 25, 2019
There have been several maps made about where people use the different generic terms for soda/pop/etc

Here's one

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Level 62
May 13, 2020
its used in canada too
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Level 64
May 13, 2020
"Soda" and "pop" are both short for "sodapop."
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Level 51
Feb 4, 2024
we always just called them "non-alcoholic, sweet, carbonated beverages" when we were children.
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Level 44
Mar 6, 2018
How does anyone miss "mom"
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Level 66
Oct 12, 2018
Whenever I miss mom, I give her a call.
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Level 79
Oct 20, 2019
Suggestions to add: civic, Nauruan, Malayalam
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Level 86
Oct 25, 2019
That would be better than all those lazy 3-letter palindromes, yeah.
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Level 77
Jan 15, 2021
Definitely add Nauruan
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Level 84
Oct 21, 2019
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.
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Level 60
Oct 25, 2019
I stayed up last night wondering when the sun was going to show up, and then it dawned on me.
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Level 76
Oct 21, 2019
No "racecar"?
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Level 83
Oct 23, 2019
Sex and gender are not the same thing - please change this
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Level 79
Oct 25, 2019
Oooohh, forgot to read the description that some answers are plural....
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Level 82
Oct 25, 2019
Our understanding of gender is based on biological sex and the two words can be used as synonyms.
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Level 51
Oct 25, 2019
And our understanding of this has changed so that is no longer the case.
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Level 82
Nov 1, 2019
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.
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Level 69
Jan 17, 2023
"Studying a topic doesn't give you the right to progress the general understanding of said topic! Let me be ignorant!"

-kalbahamut

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Level 44
Oct 25, 2019
A level doesn't measure flatness. It checks objects to see if they are level. An optical flat or autocollimator would measure the flatness.

Just because an object is level does not mean it is flat and just because an object is flat does not mean its level.

Something being level is relative to the entire objects orientation to the earth.

Something that is flat is saying the surface of that object doesn't vary by more than a certain degree.

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Level 66
Nov 17, 2019
What he said
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Level 71
May 13, 2020
What the bloke before this last bloke said.
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Level 64
May 13, 2020
Agreed. I missed that one because I was trying to think of tools that measure flatness.
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Level 43
Oct 25, 2019
Perhaps the clue for Iranian rulers could be changed to FORMER, as an Iranian ruler is an Ayatolla
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Level 51
Oct 25, 2019
great quiz! Love those palindromes
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Level 69
Oct 26, 2019
sex and gender are different things. the shah has been overthrown.
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Level 88
Oct 27, 2019
(; A man a plan a canal panama ;)
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Level 67
May 13, 2020
fun quiz
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Level 64
May 13, 2020
Redivider
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Level 79
Jul 21, 2020
Why is that definition used for 'madam'?
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2022
Yes, agreed. "Madam" is nothing at all to do with "ill-regard" in its most common form. You seem to have used a highly irregular definition.

"Quizmaster" - maybe you spend a lot of time in seedy places, I don't know! But Madam is a term of pleasantry or politeness. You might hear a shopkeeper or a concierge.

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Level 60
Jul 21, 2020
The only thing I could think of Ram's partner was Rem
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Level 69
Jul 21, 2020
weeb
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Level 57
Jul 30, 2021
Sex and gender are not the same.
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Level 67
Jul 30, 2021
Ok
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Level 67
Jul 30, 2021
Then choose a better alternative, because for the practical purposes of this quiz they are almost synonymous
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Level 67
Jul 30, 2021
Deified is my favorite out of these
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Level 76
Apr 26, 2022
"Ill repute" for madam--that is not universal.
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Level 33
Aug 30, 2022
it's pretty universal.
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Level 67
Jun 23, 2023
Nor is pop, but I think the clue's fine.
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Level 54
Aug 30, 2022
soda != pop
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Level 33
Aug 30, 2022
wow... i tried so many times to type in shaw.... my mind isn't what it used to be... i'm getting old...
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Level 72
Jan 24, 2023
I think this is my first ever comment!

Here's how I see this:

A level is used to indicate a horizontal plane relative to plumb.

I use a dial indicator to measure flatness.

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Level 66
Mar 2, 2023
fun quiz, ty
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Level 41
May 13, 2023
A nut for a jar of tuna. If you watched The Amazing World of Gumball, you'd know
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2024
Could you accept "reder" for redder? maybe?