How well do you think you know the Davis food scene? All of the answers to this quiz are places where you can eat a meal in Davis. But the clues are all cryptic! An example might help...if the question was ‘Where an amphibian might relax, perhaps?’ then the answer would be ‘Froggy’s’ (frog - ease). Answers follow below
My fiendish 2011 Thanksgiving Quiz
Ten questions to solve. All answers can be formed from the letters in the word 'Thanskgiving', and you can only use those letters. So there are 2 x G, 2 x N, 1 x T etc. Clues are somewhat cryptic and all but one answers involve two words. For each question, I also reveal how many letters are in each word of the answer.
If you are confused, I'll give you three examples to begin with:
Example 1: I just rescued one of King Arthur's minions from danger (6, 6)
King Arthur's minions would be the knights of the round table, and if you are rescuing someone then you might be 'saving' them, so the answer is saving knight.
Example 2: I have a list of 7 things: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. If you had to remove one of those things from the list, what would you be doing? (6, 3)
The list contains the seven deadly sins. So if you removed one, you would be taking sin.
Example 3: An unforgettable singer without any Cole? (3, 4)
To which the answer would just be Nat King.
Now you know the format, we'll move on to the quiz. Answers are included below. Best score at our Thanksgiving dinner was 9/10.
1) People who have this are easily insulted, and are also very easy to give injections to (4, 4)
2) As soon as we get a lot of snow, I'm going to Lake Tahoe and I expect I'll suffer from too much exposure to the sun. What will I be getting? (3, 3)
3) Someone has just acquired another possession (5, 5)
4) About a thousand years ago, a gentleman from Scandinavia may have worn this on his head (6, 3)
5) Someone is contemplating about getting older (6, 5)
6) I get very nervous and agitated about the prospect of going on long walks in the countryside (6, 5)
7) I'm in possession of a rather noxious odor (6, 5)
8) What might you call nitrous oxide if – in addition to making you laugh – it made you contemplate and consider the mysteries of life? (8, 3)
9) One thousand grams has just disappeared (9, 2)
10) If an actor from the film Apollo 13 started making an alcoholic beverage using juniper berries, what might he put on the bottle? (1, 5, 3) – this one requires two punctuation characters in the answer!
Good luck!
Answers
1) Thin skin
2) Ski tan
3) Gains thing
4) Viking hat
5) Thinks aging
6) Hiking angst
7) Having stink
8) Thinking gas
9) Vanishing KG
10) T. Hanks' Gin
