Monday, October 29, 2018

Sunday Word Puzzle from NPR


Let me share the interesting Sunday Puzzle, which is an on-air challenge, on National Public Radio (NPR). (October 28th, 2018) This Sunday, the caller was supposed to give a word or name that has the accented syllable of the sound "row" somewhere inside it.
For example, what is the word meaning savagely violent? The answer is FEROCIOUS


1. What is the noun meaning ‘a smell, especially an inviting one’?

2. Name the Kraft pasta product with cheese.

3. Brand name of the Mexican beer usually served with a lime wedge.

4. What are the vigorous physical exercises that you might do in a class or any exercises designed to strengthen the heart and lungs?

5. Name the capital of Liberia.

6. Name the capital of Kenya.

7. What is the adjective meaning ‘brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, intrepid’ as in the act of a lifeguard saving a drowning person or a hero saving people in need.

8. Give me the adjective meaning ‘not correct as a statement’.

9. Name the woman in Greek myth after whom a continent was named. She is the mother of King Minos of Crete.

10. Name the setting for "two gentlemen", which is Shakespeare’s first play.

11. Name the Polish dumpling.

12. What is this adjective meaning ‘related to a church parish or Catholic schools’?

13. Give me the name of the fort captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in 1775.


Answer Keys
   1.   aroma
   2.   macaroni
   3.   Corona
   4.   aerobics
   5.   Monrovia
   6.   Nairobi
   7.   heroic
   8.   erroneous
   9.   Europa
   10. Verona
   11. Pierogi
   12. parochial
   13. Ticonderoga

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