Friday Follies #100 – It’s QUIZ time, ladies and gents!

~ Ellie

HAPPY 100TH ANNIVERSARY, FELLOW FOLLYSTERS! Who’d have thought we’d get to this point?! Now here’s the quiz I promised you, in honour of this special occasion! Thought I forgot, didn’t you? Well I didn’t! 😀

Your mission – should you decide to accept it – is to fill in the blanks with the right word. Not on the screen! At your table/desk/bed/floor! On paper. This isn’t timed, so no pressure. This is just to see if you’ve been paying attention for the last 99 FF posts!

Answers are at the end. Ready? Go!

  1. She was given free (reign, rein) for her choice of topic.
  2. The test was confusing; he didn’t understand (it’s, its) premise.
  3. The nurse tried to (staunch, stanch) the flow of blood.
  4. As she read his profile her interest was (peaked, piqued).
  5. When he (peeked, peaked) into the kitchen he saw his dad cooking.
  6. The temperature won’t have any (affect, effect) on the game.
  7. The transcripts were (publicly, publically) available.
  8. I said it was a (priveledge, privalege, privilege, priviledge, privilidge) to serve on the committee.
  9. She was taking classes at the (high school, high-school) campus.
  10. Her high score (augers, augurs, augars) well for the future.
  11. She was a junior tennis champion back when she was (fifteen years old, fifteen-years-old).
  12. Chateau Lasalle is a prestigious (seniors’, senior’s, seniors, senior) residence.
  13. He (led, lead) the team last year in goals scored.
  14. The woman (who’s, whose) coat is still hanging there left without it.
  15. He (harrassed, harassed) her so much she was almost (embarassed, embarrassed) for him!
  16. She was (incredible, incredulous) regarding the cancelled tennis match!
  17. From the wet puddles on the court, she (implied, inferred) that it had rained.
  18. If they wore helmets, it would (lesson, lessen) the potential damage in the event of a fall.
  19. She sold some books, so there are (fewer, less) remaining.
  20. The renowned actor recently filed a (suit, suite) against three of the complainants.

 

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  1. rein
  2. its
  3. stanch
  4. piqued
  5. peeked
  6. effect
  7. publicly
  8. privilege
  9. high-school
  10. augurs
  11. fifteen years old
  12. seniors’
  13. led
  14. whose
  15. harassed; embarrassed (half a point each!)
  16. incredulous
  17. inferred
  18. lessen
  19. fewer
  20. suit

Scoring:

18-20 correct: Congrats! You’ve been paying attention! Pat yourself on the back!

15-17 correct: Not too shabby! Keep on reading FFs columns! You’re getting there!

12-14 correct: Sort of kind of maybe fair-to-good. 😀 Keep on reading FFs!

11 or less correct: Oh noooo! Immediate repair is needed! You should go back and read all 99 previous Friday Follies columns (again). And next time you’ll do much better! 🙂

 

23 thoughts on “Friday Follies #100 – It’s QUIZ time, ladies and gents!”

  2. I wonder where magickmermaid lives. I chose high school over high-school, because I think Americans consider it correct. I’m fairly sure, if I’d seen that hyphen all my life, I would have chosen your way.

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    1. It’s possible that in the U.S. where many people tend to write things shorter than us, e.g. color instead of colour, etc., that you’ve seen it without the hyphen. But it’s wrong. It’s NOT wrong when you’re just talking about a high school, as in “Oh look! There’s my old high school!” Of course that doesn’t need a hyphen. But IF you want to talk about the jacket from your old high school, then it’s “There’s my old high-school jacket. The reason is that “high-school” is now being used as an adjective, modifying a noun. It’s now called a compound adjective, and it takes a hyphen. Just like a real-estate agent. Or a fuel-line leak. See what I mean? In #9 in this quiz, it modifies the noun, “campus.” Maybe… you didn’t see the word “campus” there at the end?

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      1. Thank you for writing the full explanation. I see your reasoning about high school, but I don’t think it’s commonly hyphenated here. I wouldn’t put the hyphen in real estate agent, either. I’m talking about common usage, not correctness. Guess it’s time to read good literature instead of newspapers.

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        1. Ok. I’ll just mention that sometimes you *really* need that hyphen to prevent confusion. For example: supposing someone says, “This is a real life story.” Do they mean it’s a life story that’s real? Or is it a story about real life? If the hyphen is in there (real-life story), then it’s clear. I wish I could think of more examples now but I’m too tired. 😴

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  3. LOL. Is high-school Canadian? Because it’s generally “high school” in the U.S. Jes sayin’. There are so many on here I see people get wrong all the time–especially PIQUED.

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      1. You’re right. It’s in the dictionary with a hyphen when used as an adjective, but if students wrote it that way for papers in American classrooms, they might get it marked wrong. Maybe it’s in process of changing here? But not in Canada?

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        1. Why would it be in the process of changing here? It’s considered correct here, to put in the hyphen. That’s not to say a million people (or more!) don’t get it wrong here too, all the time! All I know is: the Grammar Cop is rarely wrong. And when she is, she says that quintessential Canadian word: Sorry! 😀

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        2. I have no idea. I just wondered if it was. But apparently it’s not! I complain about language changing, but actually it’s supposed to do that. It’s just annoying when it does it right in the middle of my life!

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  4. I got most of these write. I’m in bare assed cuz I implied the answer on couple of the questions. I spose it doesn’t auger well that I’ve never run over the augers/augurs/augars before.

    P.S.-
    In a few weeks she will have sold all of the books, so there will be none left!
    😀 😀 😀

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