Word Nerd Quiz: Answers and Winners! by PW Fun & Learning

Excellent work on the Word Nerd Quiz, everyone! That was impressive. Meritorious. Transcendent. Splendiferous! No, this is not another quiz. (Ha.)

 
Here are the stats, answers, and winners!

 
STATS

12,727 people took the quiz.
2,190 people scored 100%!
The question most people (97%) got right was…#16!
The question most people missed (only 51% got it right) was…#18.

 
ANSWERS

Q.3
Querulous means
• agreeable
✓ petulant
 
Q.4
Specious means
• provable
✓ false
 
Q.5
Cloying means
✓ too sweet
• too loud
 
Q.6
Palliative care does what?
✓ relieves pain
• cures disease
 
Q.7
Unctuous means
• brilliant
✓ smarmy
 
Q.8
Assiduous means
• careless
✓ diligent
 
Q.9
Tractable means
✓ obedient
• belligerent
 
Q.10
True or false: Hawkish means peaceable.
• True
✓ False
 
Q.11
If you are intransigent, you are
✓ pigheaded
• lionhearted
 
Q.12
Perdition means
• paradise
✓ damnation
 
Q.13
Dilettante means
✓ dabbler
• expert
 
Q.14
Omnipresent means
• all-knowing
✓ everywhere
 
Q.15
Cataclysm means
• statement of faith
✓ catastrophe
 
Q.16
A bane causes
• joy
✓ misery
 
Q.17
If someone is a misanthrope, he is
• generous
✓ grumpy
 
Q.18
A paradigm is a/an
✓ example
• contradiction
 
Q.19
If someone is indefatigable, they are
• exhausted
✓ full of energy
 
Q.20
Prosaic means
✓ commonplace
• inspired
 
Q.21
Fatuous means
✓ silly
• sensible
 
Q.22
True or False: Harangue is a topping for pie.
• True
✓ False

 
 
WINNERS

The first place winners are…Deb F. from Florida and Cindi D. from Tennessee!
The $50 gift card winners are…Denny F. from New Jersey, Karen T. from Georgia, and Kristianna B. from Virginia!

Congratulations, winners! Contact prizes@thepioneerwoman.com to claim your prizes!