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DM168 ‘Days of Zondo ‘ Quiz 

  1. It has cost the state close to R1 billion,
  2. Jacob Zuma
  3. He argued that Zondo was biased and persecuted him unfairly
  4. Gwede Mantashe 2) Ace Magashule 3)Julius Malema
  5. Frank Dutton
  6. African News Agency (ANA)
  7. McKinsey and company
  8. Dali Mpofu
  9. DA leader John Steenhuisen
  10. Jacob Zuma

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9 letter words

dismisses

8 letter words

missises

7 letter words 

dismiss; missies; sissies

6 letter words 

diesis; disses; imides; missed; misses; missis; seisms

5 letter words 

deism; dimes; imide; issei; midis; seism; semis; sides; sises

4 letter words 

dies; dime; dims; diss; idem; ides; isms; midi; mise; miss; semi; side; sims

DM168 ‘Spy ‘ Quiz 

  1. Mad magazine
  2. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service M16
  3. Spooks
  4. Major-General Wally Rhoode
  5. The Browse Mole Report
  6. Mata Hari
  7. Vanessa Brereton
  8. Jacob Zuma
  9. J Edgar Hoover
  10. Sean Connery

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9 letter words

suspicion

8 letter words

opinicus

7 letter words 

cousins; spinous

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Poussin; Socinus

6 letter words 

cousin

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Pincus

5 letter words 

coups; cusps; incus; nisus; pious; scups; sinus; soups

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ipsus; Punic

4 letter words 

coup; cups; cusp; cuss; nous; onus; opus; puns; puss; scup; soup; sous; spun; suns; sups; unis; Upon

DM168 ’80s POP Music ‘ Quiz 

  1. 1981
  2. Rocky 3
  3. Never gonna give you up
  4. Weekend Special
  5. Bubble gum music
  6. Don’t you (Forget About Me)
  7. Dancing in the streets
  8. Billie-Jean
  9. Live Aid
  10. Madonna

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9 letter words

newsrooms

8 letter words

newsroom

7 letter words 

sermons; worsens

6 letter words 

mesons; morose; mowers; nooses; osmose; owners; resown; resows; romeos; senors; sensor; sermon; serows; snores; sooner; sowens; sowers; wooers; worsen

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Monroe; Moreno; Wesson

5 letter words 

meows; meson; moose; mores; morse; mower; noose; noses; omens; owner; resow; romeo; roose; roses; senor; serow; smews; snore; sones; sores; sower; swore; women; wooer; worse; wrens

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ensor; Moore; Moses; Norse; Owens; Romes

4 letter words 

emos; enow; eons; meow; mess; mews; more; ness; news; noes; nose; omen; omer; ones; ores; oses; owes; rems; roes; rose; sens; sewn; sews; smew; some; sone; sore; wens; woes; wore; wren

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Enos; Eros; Nero; Nome; Oren; Oreo; Owen; Reno; Rome; Rowe

DM168 ‘Foodie’ Quiz 

  1. NO He sold them in 2016 to MSA Holdings, a company based in the United Arab Emirates.
  2. Gordon Ramsay
  3. The Banting diet
  4. Tim Noakes
  5. Pavlova named after Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova
  6. A koeksister is twisted fried and dipped in cold syrup making it crispy and The Cape Malay koesister is flavoured with cinnamon, cardamom, mixed spice and aniseed, dipped in syrup and covered with coconut
  7. FUGU made of the puffer fish
  8. B) South America
  9. KOTA known as GATSBY in Cape Town
  10. Jamie Oliver

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9 letter words

dejection

8 letter words

ejection; injected

7 letter words 

codeine; ctenoid; enticed; jointed; noticed

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Cetinje

6 letter words 

codein; coined; deceit; decent; deject; denote; docent; encode; entice; inject; joined; noetic; notice

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Edenic

5 letter words 

cento; cited; coned; conte; deice; donee; edict; eject; niece; noted; tined; toned

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Dione; Jodie; Teide

4 letter words 

cede; cedi; cent; cine; cite; code; coed; cone; cote; deco; dene; dent; dice; diet; dine; done; dote; edit; eide; iced; need; nice; nide; node; note; once; teed; teen; tend; tide; tied; tine; toed; tone

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ceto; Deon; Eden; Enid; Eton; Jedi

DM168 ‘General Knowledge Crosswords’ Quiz 

  1. Billy Downer
  2. World Economic Forum
  3. Monkeypox
  4. CODA
  5. 80%
  6. Nicky Oppenheimer Oppenheimer’s net worth is calculated to be about R134 billion,
  7. Julius Malema
  8. Josep “Pep” Guardiola
  9. Mark Gevisser
  10. Rajesh and Atul Gupta

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9 letter words

warranter

7 letter words 

narrate; warrant

6 letter words 

arrant; arrear; errant; errata; ranter; warren

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Terran; Warner

5 letter words 

anear; antre; arena; aware; rarer; ratan; rater; rawer; reata; reran; terra; water

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Arawn; Arran; Warta

4 letter words 

area; earn; near; rant; rare; rata; rate; rear; rent; tare; tarn; tear; tern; ware; warn; wart; wear; wert; wren

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Arne; Erna; Nara; Rena; Tara; Terr; Tran

DM168 ‘F.A Cup Final’ Quiz 

  1. 8 times
  2. Mason Mount
  3. Arsenal
  4. Chelsea have made 17 FA Cup finals to date, winning eight and losing eight.
  5. Burnley
  6. One
  7. One
  8. 1872
  9. George Best
  10. Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa

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9 letter words

detaining

8 letter words

ideating; indigent

7 letter words 

anteing; antigen; denting; dieting; editing; gentian; ignited; tending

6 letter words 

aiding; anting; dating; detain; dining; eating; ending; gained; gaited; ginned; ignite; indent; indign; indite; ingate; innate; intend; intine; tiding; tieing; tineid; tinged; tinned

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Andine; Dannie; Dianne; Indian; Nadine

5 letter words 

deign; digit; dinge; genii; giant; inane; indie; innit; nitid; tinea; tined; tinge

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Adige; Angie; Annie; Diane; Diann; India; Taine

4 letter words 

adit; aide; anti; diet; dine; ding; dint; edit; gain; gait; gite; idea; inti; nide; nine; tain; tide; tied; tine; ting

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Agni; Dian; Dina; Enid; Gide; Gina; Inge; Nina; Nita; Tina

DM168 ‘Check Your News Knowledge’ Quiz 

  1. 12
  2. False
  3. The Brenthurst Foundation
  4. ROE VS Wade
  5. 10%
  6. Tertuis Simmers
  7. Oscar Mabuyane
  8. 9 May
  9. Godrich Gardee.
  10. Symbion

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9 letter words

barometry

7 letter words

bromate

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Bertram; Roberta

6 letter words 

artery; barret; barter; betray; boater; borate; brayer; embryo; martyr; mortar; rebato; remora; roamer; rotary; termor; tremor

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Robert; Torbay

5 letter words 

abort; amber; ambry; armet; barer; barmy; barre; barye; berry; boart; borer; boyar; bream; marry; mater; mayor; merry; metro; moray; ombre; orate; rater; rearm; retro; retry; tabor; tamer; tarry; teary; terra; terry; tryma

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Barry; Bayer; Berar; Berra; Berta; Boyer; Emory; Erato; Marty; Mayer; Rambo

4 letter words 

aero; aery; army; arty; bare; barm; bear; berm; boar; bora; bore; bort; brae; brat; bray; byre; eyra; mare; mart; mora; more; mort; omer; oyer; rare; rate; ream; rear; roam; roar; robe; rota; rote; tare; taro; tear; term; tora; tore; torr; tram; tray; trey; troy; tyre; tyro; yare; year; yore

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Amor; Ayer; Barr; Bert; Boer; Bret; Ebro; Erma; Mary; Myra; Omar; Reba; Robt; Roma; Rome; Rory; Terr; Tory; Tyrr

DM168 ‘Johnny Depp Pop’ Quiz 

  1. $100 million
  2. The Rum Diaries
  3. Vanessa Paradis
  4. Leonardo di Caprio
  5. Captain Jack Sparrow
  6. Princess Mera
  7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  8. Two years
  9. Nightmare on Elm Street
  10. Hollywood Vampires

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9 letter words

excavates

8 letter words

excavate

7 letter words

caseate; caveats; vacates

6 letter words 

caveat; exacts; exsect; savate; vacate

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Avesta

5 letter words 

caste; caves; cease; cesta; eaves; exact; exeat; execs; saeta; setae; stave; taxes; tease; vesta; vexes

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Steve; Texas

4 letter words 

aces; axes; case; cate; cave; ease; east; eats; eave; etas; eves; exec; exes; sate; save; seat; sect; sext; tace; teas; tees; vase; vest; vets

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aves; Este

 

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9 letter words

ascospore

7 letter words

coopers; corpses; escarps; parsecs; process; scooper; scrapes; spacers

6 letter words 

aspers; capers; caress; coarse; cooper; copses; corpse; crapes; crosse; escarp; operas; pacers; parsec; parses; passer; posers; recaps; repass; scapes; scares; scopes; scores; scrape; serosa; spacer; spaces; spares; sparse; spears; spores

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Casper; Roscoe

5 letter words 

acres; apses; arose; arses; asper; caper; capes; cares; carse; cases; ceros; coper; copes; copse; cores; corse; crape; cress; oases; ocrea; opera; pacer; paces; pares; parse; passe; pears; pesos; pores; poser; poses; posse; prase; presa; press; prose; races; rapes; rases; reaps; recap; roose; ropes; roses; scape; scare; scope; score; sears; sores; space; spare; spear; specs; speos; spore

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aesop; Cesar; Espoo; Pecos

4 letter words 

aces; acre; aero; apes; apse; ares; arse; cape; care; case; cero; cess; cope; core; ears; epos; eras; opes; ores; oses; pace; pare; pase; pear; peas; pecs; peso; pore; pose; race; rape; rase; reap; reps; roes; rope; rose; sear; seas; secs; sera; sore; spae; spec
 

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Earp; Eros; Oreo; Pera

DM168 ” Quiz 

  1. 1984
  2. Pandora
  3. They won the popular vote, but lost the electoral-college vote
  4. Ethiopia
  5. Knee cap
  6. Paris
  7. Lady Gaga
  8. The platypus
  9. Gwen Stefani
  10. Bavarian Motor Works

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9 letter words

evangelic

8 letter words

cleaving

7 letter words

angelic; calving; elegiac; enclave; evangel; leaving; lineage; valence

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Anglice; Galenic; Legnica

6 letter words 

alevin; alvine; avenge; caving; cleave; encage; enlace; geneva; genial; glaive; glance; lacing; laving; leaven; linage; valine; venial

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aileen; Calvin; Celina; Ealing; Elaine; Gaelic

5 letter words 

acing; agile; algin; alien; align; alive; anele; angel; angle; anile; anvil; calve; cavie; cavil; clang; clave; clavi; clean; eagle; gavel; glace; glean; ileac; lance; leave; ligan; naevi; naive; navel; nival; vegan; venae; venal

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Alice; Aline; Alvin; Angie; Caine; Celia; Elena; Elvia; Evian; Galen; Gavin; Nivea; Vance; Vilna

4 letter words 

acne; agee; alee; anil; cage; cain; cane; cave; clan; eave; elan; gain; gale; gave; gean; glia; ilea; lace; laic; lain; lane; lave; lean; leva; nail; nave; vagi; vail; vain; vale; vane; vang; veal; vela; vena; vial; vina

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Agni; Alec; Caen; Cali; Elea; Elia; Elva; Evan; Gael; Gail; Gena; Gila; Gina; Inca; Ivan; Lang; Lena; Lina; Neal; Neva; Vega; Vila

DM168 ‘How Well Do you Know Your ANC Corruption’ Quiz 

  1. R320m
  2. 1)
  3. The 1999 Arms Deal.
  4. BOSASA
  5. Tony Yengeni
  6. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
  7. Glenn Agliotti
  8. Brian Molefe
  9. Schabir Shaik
  10. Digital Vibes

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9 letter words

clarinets; larcenist

8 letter words

articles; canister; centrals; cisterna; clarinet; recitals; scantier

7 letter words

arsenic; article; canters; cantier; cantles; carline; carnies; cartels; centals; central; certain; cineast; cistern; clarets; claries; clients; cretins; eclairs; elastic; laciest; lancers; lancets; latices; raciest; recants; recital; relicts; scaleni; scalier; scanter; scarlet; stearic; stencil; trances

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Carlist; Castile; Cretans; Linacre

6 letter words 

actins; antics; ascent; cairns; caners; canter; cantle; carets; caries; carnet; carnie; cartel; cartes; casein; casern; caster; castle; caters; cental; centra; citral; claret; cleans; clears; cleats; client; cranes; crates; cretin; crista; eclair; enacts; incase; incest; insect; lacier; lancer; lances; lancet; lentic; nectar; nicest; racist; reacts; recant; recast; rectal; relics; relict; rictal; scaler; sclera; secant; slicer; stance; steric; ticals; tincal; traces; trance

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Caenis; Carlin; Celina; Claire; Cretan; Racine; Senlac; Stacie; Tracie

5 letter words 

acres; actin; antic; cairn; caner; canes; canst; cants; cares; caret; carse; carte; carts; caste; cater; cents; ceria; certs; cesta; cites; clans; clean; clear; cleat; cline; clits; crane; crate; crest; cries; crine; eclat; enact; ileac; lacer; laces; lance; nacre; narcs; nicer; races; rance; react; recta; recti; relic; rices; scale; scant; scare; scent; since; slice; telic; tical; trace; trice

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Alice; Caine; Cains; Carne; Celia; Celts; Cesar; Clair; Clare; Clint; Erica; Incas; Salic; Staci; Traci

4 letter words 

aces; acne; acre; acts; arcs; asci; cain; cane; cans; cant; care; carl; cars; cart; case; cast; cate; cats; ceil; celt; cent; cine; cire; cist; cite; clan; clit; ices; lace; laic; lice; narc; nice; race; rice; scan; scar; scat; sect; tace; talc; tics

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Acis; Alec; Caen; Cali; Eric; Inca

DM168 ‘How Well Do you Know Your ANC Corruption’ Quiz 

  1. R320m
  2. 1)
  3. The 1999 Arms Deal.
  4. BOSASA
  5. Tony Yengeni
  6. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
  7. Glenn Agliotti
  8. Brian Molefe
  9. Schabir Shaik
  10. Digital Vibes

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9 letter words

clarinets; larcenist

8 letter words

articles; canister; centrals; cisterna; clarinet; recitals; scantier

7 letter words

arsenic; article; canters; cantier; cantles; carline; carnies; cartels; centals; central; certain; cineast; cistern; clarets; claries; clients; cretins; eclairs; elastic; laciest; lancers; lancets; latices; raciest; recants; recital; relicts; scaleni; scalier; scanter; scarlet; stearic; stencil; trances

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Carlist; Castile; Cretans; Linacre

6 letter words 

actins; antics; ascent; cairns; caners; canter; cantle; carets; caries; carnet; carnie; cartel; cartes; casein; casern; caster; castle; caters; cental; centra; citral; claret; cleans; clears; cleats; client; cranes; crates; cretin; crista; eclair; enacts; incase; incest; insect; lacier; lancer; lances; lancet; lentic; nectar; nicest; racist; reacts; recant; recast; rectal; relics; relict; rictal; scaler; sclera; secant; slicer; stance; steric; ticals; tincal; traces; trance

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Caenis; Carlin; Celina; Claire; Cretan; Racine; Senlac; Stacie; Tracie

5 letter words 

acres; actin; antic; cairn; caner; canes; canst; cants; cares; caret; carse; carte; carts; caste; cater; cents; ceria; certs; cesta; cites; clans; clean; clear; cleat; cline; clits; crane; crate; crest; cries; crine; eclat; enact; ileac; lacer; laces; lance; nacre; narcs; nicer; races; rance; react; recta; recti; relic; rices; scale; scant; scare; scent; since; slice; telic; tical; trace; trice

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Alice; Caine; Cains; Carne; Celia; Celts; Cesar; Clair; Clare; Clint; Erica; Incas; Salic; Staci; Traci

4 letter words 

aces; acne; acre; acts; arcs; asci; cain; cane; cans; cant; care; carl; cars; cart; case; cast; cate; cats; ceil; celt; cent; cine; cire; cist; cite; clan; clit; ices; lace; laic; lice; narc; nice; race; rice; scan; scar; scat; sect; tace; talc; tics

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Acis; Alec; Caen; Cali; Eric; Inca

DM168 ‘Grammys’ Quiz 

  1. National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the USA
  2. The winners are awarded a gold plated gramophone or “grammy”
  3. 1961
  4. Subconsciously
  5. “Hello Dolly”
  6. Roberta Flack
  7. Silk Sonic
  8. Bruno Mars
  9. Kanye West
  10. Milli Vanilli

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9 letter words

monodrama

7 letter words

doorman; madrona; madrono; monarda

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Armando

6 letter words 

dammar; madman; maroon; nardoo; random

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Armand; Manado; Ramona; Romano

5 letter words 

adman; adorn; aroma; daman; damar; drama; madam; manor; monad; nomad; radon; roman

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aaron; Amado; Amman; Ammon; Damon; Donar; Drano; Moran; NORAD; Norma; Radom; Ramon; Ronda

4 letter words 

ammo; anoa; damn; darn; dona; dram; mama; mana; mara; moan; mora; nard; noma; rand; road; roam; roan

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Adam; Adan; Adar; Amon; Amor; Anam; Arad; Arno; Aron; Dana; Dora; Mona; Nama; Nara; Nora; Odra; Oman; Omar; Oran; Rama; Roma; Rona

DM168 ‘Oscars 2022’ Quiz 

  1. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
  2. David Niven
  3. Penelope Cruz
  4. John Williams
  5. Sidney Poitier (1963 in Lilies of the Field)
  6. Chris Rock
  7. The Hurt Locker
  8. Marlon Brando
  9. Jennifer Hudson
  10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

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9 letter words

urticaria

6 letter words 

curari; iatric

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Icaria; Tricia

5 letter words 

acari; atria; auric; cirri; curia; riata; tiara

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Arica; Atari; Caria; Traci; Utica

4 letter words 

airt; aria; uric

DM168 ‘SA Artists’ Quiz 

  1. University of Johannesburg
  2. BMW
  3. Ndebele
  4. Gerard Sekoto
  5. Blessing Ngobeni
  6. Bonnie Ntshalintshali
  7. 1971
  8. Conrad Botes
  9. JH Pierneef
  10. Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren

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9 letter words

upgrading

8 letter words

guarding

7 letter words

draping; grading; niggard

6 letter words 

daring; duping; durian; during; gradin; unpaid

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Giraud; Guardi; Pindar

5 letter words 

dinar; drain; grand; grind; guard; nadir; rapid

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Darin; Duran; Durga; Indra; Randi

4 letter words 

arid; dang; darg; darn; ding; drag; drip; drug; dung; gaud; gird; grad; grid; nard; paid; pard; raid; rand; rind

DM168 ‘Know The President of Ukraine’ Quiz 

  1. “Servant of the People”
  2. He made a speech appealing to Britain’s parliament for aid during the war in Ukraine.
  3. Servant of the People
  4. Paddington
  5. His penis
  6. 73 per cent
  7. Judaism
  8. Law
  9. Winston Churchill.
  10. The League of Laughter

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9 letter words

austerely

8 letter words

easterly

7 letter words

austere; elaters; estuary; realest; relates; restyle; stealer; tersely

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Laertes

6 letter words 

alerts; alters; aretes; eaters; elates; elutes; estray; layers; leaser; lustra; lustre; ratels; reales; relays; resale; reseal; reseat; reseau; result; retuse; rustle; salter; salute; saurel; sealer; setula; slater; slayer; sleety; staler; stayer; steely; stelae; sultry; surely; surety; sutler; teasel; teaser; ulster; ultras; urease; yester

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aleuts; Atreus; Auster; Easter; Estela; Lester; Salyut; Seurat; Teresa; Tereus; Yseult

5 letter words 

artsy; aster; earls; easel; erase; ester; eyras; lares; laser; lease; least; leers; lures; lusty; lutes; lyres; rales; rates; reals; reels; reest; resat; reset; reuse; rules; rusty; salty; saree; satyr; saury; saute; sayer; setae; slate; slaty; leet; slyer; stale; stare; steal; steel; steer; stela; stray; stree; style; suety; sural; surly; sutra; taels; tales; talus; tares; taser; teals; tears; tease terse; tesla; trays; trees; treys; trues; tyres; years; yeast; yurts

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Arles; Asyut; Ayers; Reyes; Stael; Surat; Surya; Tulsa; Urals; Yales; Yates; Yeats; Yules

4 letter words 

ales; ares; arse; arts; ayes; ears; ease; east; easy; eats; eels; else; eras; erst; etas; eyas; eyes; lase; last; lats; lays; leas; lees; lest; lets; leys; lues; lust; lyse; rase; rats
rays; rest; rets; rues; ruse; rust; ruts; ryas; sale; salt; sate; seal; sear; seat; seel; seer; sera; sere; slat; slay; slue; slur; slut; star; stay; stye; suer; suet; sura; sure; tars; taus; teas; tees; tres; tsar; user; yeas; yest

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Asur; Elsa; Erse; Esau; Este; Lars; Lesa; Saul; Ursa;Utes; Yser

DM168 ‘Shane Warne’ Quiz 

  1. Keith
  2. India
  3. Rajistan Royals
  4. 708
  5. Warne was sent home after a drug test during a one-day series in Australia returned a positive result for a banned diuretic.
  6. 2007
  7. Mike Gatting
  8. He talked to a newspaper about Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga, saying: “There is plenty of animosity between Arjuna and myself. I don’t like him and I’m not in a club of one”
  9. Koh Samui
  10. 10 times

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9 letter words

titillate

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Letitia

6 letter words 

little; taille; tattie; tattle; tittle

5 letter words 

ileal; latte; title

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Allie; Leila; Lelia

4 letter words 

ilea; late; leal; lite; tael; tale; teal; teat; tell; tile

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Elia; Ella; Etta; Lela; Leta; Lett; Tate

DM168 ‘Russia/Ukraine’ Quiz 

  1. Kiev
  2. Volodymyr Zelensky
  3. Belarus
  4. 1991
  5. Crimea
  6. The Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.
  7. Federal Security Service (FSB)
  8. Donald Trump
  9. Chernobyl
  10. 150 000

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7 letter words

nonviable

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Lavonne; Lebanon

6 letter words 

albino; alevin; alvine; bonnie; bovine; eolian; novena; online; valine; venial

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Albion; Alboin; Benoni; Blaine; Lonnie; Vienna

5 letter words 

alien; aloin; alone; anile; anion; anole; anvil; avion; beano; binal; blain; bonne; envoi; inane; levin; linen; liven; naevi; naive; navel; nival; noble; novae; novel; olein; ovine; venal; venin

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aline; Alvin; Annie; Benin; Bevan; Bevin; Elvin; Evian; Leann; Lenin; Leona; Lonna; Nevil; Nevin; Niobe; Nivea; Nobel; Nolan; Oneal; Venlo; Vilna

4 letter words 

aeon; anil; anon; bane; bani; bean; bine; bone; ebon; elan; enol; lain; lane; lean; leno; lien; line; linn; lino; lion; loan; loin; lone; nail; nave; neon; nevi; nine; noel; noil; none; nova; oven; vain; vane; vein; vena; vina; vine; vino

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Anne; Avon; Beni; Bona; Bonn; Eban; Evan; Iona; Ivan; Lena; Leon; Lina; Neal; Nebo; Neil; Neva; Nile; Nina; Nola; Nona; Olen; Olin; Venn

DM168 ‘Budget’ Quiz 

  1. Chris Liebenberg
  2. Trevor Manuel 1996-2009
  3. Des van Rooyen (4 days in December 2015)
  4. Education
  5. R4.3 trillion
  6. SIN TAXES
  7. b) R7 604
  8. c) R11 770,83
  9. 5.2 million individuals, or 9% of the population
  10. University of London

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9 letter word

contralto

7 letter words

cartoon; contort; control; coolant; coronal; locator; ortolan; rattoon

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Carlton; Locarno; Otranto;Tortola

6 letter words 

attorn; cantor; carton; contra; corona; cottar; cotton; craton; croton; octant; racoon; ratoon

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Alcott; Carnot; Olcott

5 letter words 

acorn; actor; canto; carol; claro; colon; conto; coral; cotta; croon; loran; lotto; octal; octan; ottar; racon; talon; tanto; tarot; tolan; tolar; tonal; total; troat; trona

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Acton; Alcor; Alton; Carlo; Corot; Croat; Lorca; Lorna; Lotta; Orlon; Ronal; Tonto

4 letter words 

alto; clot; coal; coat; cola; colt; cool; coon; coot; corn; loan; loco; loon; loot; lorn; lota; nolo; onto; oral; orca; otto; roan; root; rota; rotl; taco; taro; tola; tool; toot; tora; torn; tort; trot

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Arlo; Arno; Aron; Aton; Cato; Cora; Lora; Lott; Nola; Nora; Oort; Oran; Roca; Rona; Toto

DM168 ‘Know the State of Your Nation’ Quiz 

  1. President Nelson Mandela
  2. Police Minister Bheki Cele
  3. President Jacob Zuma
  4. President Nelson Mandela
  5. President Jacob Zuma
  6. 2003
  7. Johnson and Johnson
  8. Then DA Leader Mmusi Maimane
  9. FW De Klerk
  10. Nelson Mandela

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clavering

8 letter word

clearing; cleaving

7 letter words

aligner; angelic; calving; carling; carving; clanger; clinger; craving; cringle; engrail; glacier; gracile; leaving; realign; reaving; vinegar

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Anglice; Galenic; Grecian; Legnica

6 letter words 

angler; arcing; cagier; caring; caving; cering; cringe; earing; gainer; garlic; genial; glaive; glance; gravel; graven; lacing; laving; linage; linger; racing; raving; regain; regnal; rivage

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Argive; Ealing; Erlang; Gaelic; Gracie; Langer; Regina; Vergil

5 letter words 

acing; agile; algin; align; angel; anger; angle; argil; cager; cigar; clang; cling; gavel; genic; given; giver; glace; glair; glare; glean; gnarl; grace; grail; grain; grave; ingle; lager; large; ligan; liger; range; regal; reign; vegan; virga

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aegir; Alger; Angie; Craig; Elgar; Galen; Gavin; Nigel; Niger; Regin; Rigel

4 letter words 

cage; crag; gain; gale; gave; gean; gear; girl; give; glen; glia; gran; grin; rage; ragi; rang; ring; vagi; vang

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Agni; Gael; Gail; Gena; Gera; Gila; Gina; Inge; Lang; Riga; Vega

DM168 ‘Dali Mpofu’ Quiz 

  1. It is alleged that when he was a young lawyer that he had an affair with Winnie Mandela which was one of the causes of the break-up of her marriage to Nelson Mandela
  2. 2014
  3. Chairman
  4. Deputy President against Floyd Shivambu
  5. R14million
  6. Advocate Michelle le Roux
  7. The mineworkers
  8. The South African National Editors Forum SANEF
  9. Fast-bowler Kagiso Rabada
  10. Former SARS commissioner Tom Moyane

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9 letter word

wackiness

7 letter words

seasick; sickens

6 letter words 

casein; incase; kinase; sanies; sansei; sicken; sinews; skeins; snicks; swains; swines; winces

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Caenis; Cassie; Eakins

5 letter words 

anise; kinas; kines; nicks; sakis; sasin; sicks; sikas; since; sines; sinew; sinks; skein; skies; skins; snick; swain; swine; swink; wains; wicks; wince; wines; winks; wisen; wises

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aiken; Aisne; Caine; Cains; Incas; Issac; Kenai; Nasik; Siena; Weiss

4 letter words 

akin; anis; asci; cain; cine; ices; inks; kain; kina; kine; kiss; nice; nick; sain; saki; sick; sics; sika; sike; sine; sink; sins; skin; skis; wain; wick; wine; wink; wins; wise

DM168 ‘Family Fun’ Quiz 

  1. Mercury
  2. Smallpox
  3. True
  4. Religious sites-Symantec found that the average number of security threats on religious sites was around 115, compared to adult content sites which carried around 25.
  5. Larry Page and Sergie Brin
  6. China
    Cuba
    Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)
    North Korea
    Vietnam
  7. Phil Collins
  8. 621
  9. Nompumelelo Ntuli

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9 letter word

dustsheet

7 letter words

detests

6 letter words 

detest; etudes; steeds; tested

5 letter words 

duets; dusts; etude; heeds; seeds; sheds; steed; studs; suede; thuds

4 letter words 

dues; duet; dust; heed; hued; seed; shed; stud; suds; sued; teds; teed; thud; used

DM168 ‘Family Fun POP’ Quiz 

  1. ABBA
  2. Britney Spears
  3. Seoul, South Korea
  4. Frank
  5. Rihanna…Rihanna’s real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty.
  6. The Police
  7. Bruno Mars
  8. Baby One More Time
  9. Prince
  10. William James Adams Jr

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9 letter word

impaction

8 letter words

amniotic; optician

7 letter words

apomict; campion; caption; comitia; maintop; paction; potamic

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Pontiac; Tampico

6 letter words 

action; atomic; atonic; camion; cation; manioc; optima; potman; tampon

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Monica; Pacino; Pontic; Ticino

5 letter words 

amino; amnio; campo; canto; capon; coati; ionic; octan; ontic; optic; panto; patio; piano; picot; pinto; piton; point; tonic; topic

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Acton; Cimon; Ionia; Macon; Minot; Naomi; Omani; Paton; Pinot; Taino; Timon; Tonia

4 letter words 

atom; atop; capo; ciao; cion; coat; coin; coma; icon; into; iota; moan; moat; noma; omit; otic; pion; taco; topi

DM168 ‘Lindiwe Sisulu’ Quiz 

  1. Walter and Albertina Sisulu
  2. Professor Roc Ajulu
  3. She received the award in recognition of outstanding contributions and achievement towards improving and solving the world’s housing problems.
  4. 1975-1976
  5. Military Intelligence.
  6. The Times of Swaziland
  7. History
  8. Jacob Zuma
  9. False Sisulu was Minister of Intelligence from January 2001 to April 2004 when Thabo Mbeki
  10. Jose Slovo residents

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9 letter word

camellias

8 letter words

camellia

7 letter words

camails; malaise; miscall

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ascella; Camilla; Camille

6 letter words 

allies; callas; camail; camels; claims; climes; emails; laical; lamias; lilacs; llamas; malice; mallei; mascle; mescal; mesial; salami; samiel; scilla

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Alsace; Amelia; Calais; Callie; Ismael; Melisa; Sallie; Scalia

5 letter words 

aisle; alias; calla; calls; calms; camel; cella; celli; cells; claim; clams; clime; email; ileac; ileal; laces; lamas; lames; lamia; lilac; limes; lisle; llama; macle; mails; males; malls; meals; melic; miles; mills; salmi; scale; slice; slime; small; smell; smile

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Alice; Alisa; Allie; Celia; Elias; Elisa; Ellis; Islam; Leila; Lelia; Salem; Salic; Scala; Selim; Selma; Simla

4 letter words 

ails; alae; alas; ales; alms; call; calm; ceil; cell; clam; clem; ells; elms; ilea; ills; isle; lace; laic; lama; lame; lams; lase; leal; leas; leis; lice; lies; lime; mail; male; mall; meal; mile; mill; mils; sail; sale; seal; sell; sill; slam; slim

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Alai; Alec; Alma; Cali; Elam; Elia; Elis; Ella; Elma; Elsa; Emil; Lala; Lela; Lesa; Liam; Lias; Lila; Lima; Lisa; Mali

DM168 ‘On Fire Family’ Quiz 

  1. January 2 2022
  2. Zandile Mafe
  3. Cape Town City Hall
  4. Too many wooden sticks were being burned in the furnaces
    In 1834, the exchequer was faced with the problem of disposing of two cart-loads of wooden tally sticks. These were remnants of an obsolete accounting system that had not been used since 1826. It was the decision by the palace’s clerk of works to burn them in the furnaces, rather than in an open-air bonfire or to give them away as firewood, that led to the fateful fire.
  5. The Mvezo Welcome Centre
  6. Guy Fakwes
  7. Montreal
  8. Adolf Hitler
  9. Australia’s former parliament building in the capital Canberra
  10. 1814

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9 letter word

yellowest

7 letter words

sweetly; yellows

6 letter words 

sleety; slowly; solely; steely; yellow

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Lesley; Wesley; Wolsey

5 letter words 

lowly; style; telly; tolly; tolyl; welly; wetly; yells; yowls

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Elyot; Leyte; Lysol; Welty

4 letter words 

eyes; eyot; leys; lyse; stye; toys; yell; yest; yews; yowl

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Eloy; Lely’ Lyle

DM168 ‘2021 General Knowledge’ Quiz 

  1. ANIMALS
    a). Porcupine
    b). Chicken
    c). Blue whale (larger than any dinosaur)
    d). Hippopotamus
    e). Pigeon
  2. GEOGRAPHY – SOUTH AFRICA
    a). Botswana
    b). Limpopo River
    c). Tugela Falls
    d). Cape Agulhus
    e). Marion Island
  3. HISTORY – SOUTH AFRICA
    a). God Save The Queen
    b). 1787-1828
    c). General Jan Smuts
    d). Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu
    e). Castle of Good Hope
  4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
    a). Tin
    b). Coronavirus Disease 2019
    c). Lawyers and politicians
    d). Bitcoin
    e). In the beginning
  5. BRAINTEASERS
    a). Vowels
    b). They can all add “rain” to make a new word
    c). Leap (collective nouns of the Big Five on SA currency notes in ascending order)
    d). They have no vowels other than “a” (Havana, Jakarta, Warsaw, Dakar, Ankara)
    e). The letters in each word are in alphabetical order
  6. ENTERTAINMENT
    a). Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Bob Marley
    b). Swahili
    c). Clint Eastwood
    d). District 9
    e). My Octopus Teacher
  7. OLYMPICS
    a). Athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, swimming
    b). Bangladesh
    c). Andy Murray
    d). Climbing, karate, skateboarding, surfing
    e). Liechtenstein
  8. LITERARY WORLD
    a). The Merry Wives Of Windsor
    b). Florence
    c). JK Rowling
    d). George RR Martin (Game Of Thrones)
    e). JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer
  9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – SOUTH AFRICA
    a). The Hawks
    b). Jacob Zuma’s wives
    c). Puma
    d). Method cap classique (MCC)
    e). Clicks
  10. SPORT – SOUTH AFRICA
    a). Comrades
    b). Duane Vermeulen
    c). Akani Simbine
    d). Lloyd Harris
    e). 200m Breaststroke
  11. SPACE
    a). Mercury And Venus
    b). Southern Cross
    c). Earth
    d). Zero
    e). Richard Nixon
  12. CHRISTMAS CRACKER JOKES
    a). Their horns don’t work
    b). A rubbish truck
    c). Goes back fo(u)r seconds
    d). Nothing, it’s on the house
    e). Claus-trophobia. DM168

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9 letter word

succursal

8 letter words

sacculus

6 letter words 

caucus

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Ursula

5 letter words 

ascus; cauls; class; crass; luaus; scars; sural; suras; usual

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Assur; Cacus; Claus; Lucas; Lucca; Urals

4 letter words 

arcs; carl; cars; caul; lass; luau; sacs; scar; sura

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9 letter words 

bucketful

6 letter words 

buckle; tubful; tubule

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Lubeck

5 letter words

bluet; cleft; culet; fleck; fluke; flute

4 letter words

belt; blue; bulk; celt; clef; club; clue; cult; felt; flub; flue; fuel; kelt; left; lube; luce; luck; lute

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Luke

DM168 ‘2021 General Knowledge’ Quiz 

  1. Raul Castro
  2. Ashleigh Barty
  3. Tokyo
  4. El Salvador
  5. Daniil Medvedev
  6. Alitalia
  7. Chelsea
  8. Asteroids (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
  9. Lewis Hamilton
  10. ‘The Man Who Died Twice’

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9 letter word

diligence

7 letter words

decline; deicing; eliding

6 letter words 

ceding; decile; dicing; dingle; idling; legend

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Edenic; Leiden; Lidice

5 letter words 

deice; deign; dinge; elide; gelid; glede; glide; indie; ledge; lined

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Indic

4 letter words 

cede; cedi; deil; dele; deli; dene; dice; dine; ding; edge; eide; geed; geld; gild; iced; idle; lend; lied; need; nide

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Deng; Eden; Enid; Gide; Lind

DM168 ‘Variant’ Quiz 

  1. True
  2. True
  3. False, As living organisms, viruses are much smaller than bacteria
  4. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron
  5. This is a variant of interest
  6. Britain, USA, Australia, Mauritius, Singapore, Israel, India, France, European Union countries, Canada, Japan, The Phillipines
  7. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa
  8. Lambda (Peru) and Mu (Columbia)
  9. The Greek alphabet
  10. “Two letters were skipped —Nu and Xi — because Nu is too easily confounded with ‘new’ and XI was not used because it is a common surname and WHO best practices for naming new diseases (developed in conjunction with FAO and OIE back in 2015) suggest avoiding ‘causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups’,” the WHO said in a statement.

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9 letter word

eldercare

8 letter word

declarer

7 letter words

cleared; clearer; declare

6 letter words 

carrel; cereal; cradle; dealer; larder; leader; leered; realer; reeled; reeler

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Calder; Darrel

5 letter words 

alder; clear; creel; decal; elder; laced; lacer

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Adele; Adler; Clare; Earle

4 letter words 

alee; carl; clad; dale; deal; dele; earl; lace; lade; lard; lead; leer; rale; real; reel

DM168 ‘Know Your Williams Sisters’ Quiz 

  1. He believed the tough environment would give the girls a fighter’s mentality
  2. Venus and Serena have three half-sisters on their mother Oracene Price’s side: Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price.
  3. Richard married three times. He had five children from his first marriage to Betty Johnson: Sabrina, Richard III, Ronner, Reluss, and Reneeka. After his second divorce from Venus and Serena’s mother, he married for the third time. The tennis coach’s third wife was Lakeisha Juanita Graham. The pair welcomed a son named Dylan in 2012 and divorced in 2017. Richard also has another son named Chavoita LeSane outside of his marriages.
  4. When they were four
  5. Venus by 1 year
  6. Serena, Venus and their sister Lyndrea Price
  7. She was killed in a gang shootout in Compton
  8. The Australian Open
  9. Serena
  10. Venus won seven Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals.
    Serena won 23 Grand slam singles titles, 14 grand slam doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals

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9 letter word

almsgiver

7 letter words

gravels; gremial; mailers; marvels; realism; revisal

7 letter words that may be pronouns

Algiers

6 letter words 

emails; gavels; gimels; glaive; glares; gleams; grails; gravel; grilse; lagers; larges; lavers; ligers; livers; mailer; marvel; mesial; milers; ravels; realms; rivals; sailer; salver; samiel; serial; serval; silage; silver; slaver; sliver; smiler; valise; velars

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Elvira; Gisela; Glaser; Ismael; Israel; Leavis; Melisa; Vergil

5 letter words 

agile; aisle; alive; argil; ariel; arils; earls; email; evils; gales; gavel; gimel; girls; glair; glare; gleam; glias; grail; lager; lairs; lamer; lames; lares; large; laser; laver; laves; levis; liars; liger; limes; liras; liver; lives; livre; mails; males; marls; meals; miler; miles; rails; rales; ravel; realm; reals; regal; rials; riels; riles; rival; salmi; salve; silva; slave; slime; smile; vales; valse; veils; velar; vials; viler; viral

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Alger; Arles; Elgar; Elias; Elisa; Elvia; Elvis; Gaels; Giles; Islam; Melva; Reval; Rigel; Salem; Selim; Selma; Simla; Velma; Vilma

4 letter words 

ails; ales; alms; aril; earl; elms; evil; gale; gals; gels; girl; glam; glia; glim; ilea; isle; lags; lair; lame; lams; lari; lase; lave; lavs; leas; legs; leis; leva; liar; lies; lime; lira; lire; live; mail; male; marl; meal; mile; mils; rail; rale; real; rial; riel; rile; sail; sale; seal; slag; slam; slim; vail; vale; veal; veil; vela; vial; vile

DM168 ‘Climate Change’ Quiz 

  1. Former US President Barack Obama.
  2. Margaret Thatcher
  3. Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Yemen
  4. They are all at serious risk of being completely submerged
  5. The forecast says heavy rain, so “drookit”
  6. They are all nature-based solutions to climate change
  7. BLACKPINK
  8. NDC, which stands for Nationally Determined Contribution
  9. ‘Shall’ We all remember the cries and cheers after the triumphant COP21 agreement in Paris
  10. A code red for humanity

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9 letter word

flambeaus

8 letter word

amusable; flambeau

7 letter words

flambes; fumbles

6 letter words 

albums; ambles; balsam; blames; fables; flambe; fumble; suable; umbels; umbles; usable

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Mabuse

5 letter words 

abase; abeam; abuse; album; amble; baels; balas; bales; balms; balsa; basal; beams; beaus; bemas; blame; blase; blues; embus; fable; flubs; lambs; lubes
sable; samba; sebum; umbel

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Baals; Basel; Basle; Belau; Mabel; Mable; Melba; Sumba

4 letter words 

abas; able; alba; albs; baas; bael; bale; balm; base; beam; beau; bema; blue; bumf; bums; flab; flub; labs; lamb; lube; slab; slub

DM168 ‘SA And UK Iron Ladies’ Quiz 

  1. B) A Russian journalist
  2. 1979 to 1990
  3. Germany
  4. She stopped free milk for schoolchildren
  5. She publicly apologised for her tweets saying there were some positive aspects of colonialism.
  6. In October 1983 without talking to Mrs Thatcher, President Reagan invaded Grenada, whose head of state is Queen Elizabeth, in Operation Urgent Fury. This led to a very angry telephone exchange between Reagan and Thatcher that became legend in both the White House and Downing Street
  7. Mazibuko and the DA caucus supported the the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Bill and the Employment Equity Amendment Bill tabled by the ANC in parliament
  8. The Institute of Race Relations
  9. There was a dramatic increase in unemployment, from 1.3 million in 1979 to more than double that figure two years later, reaching more than three million in 1986.
  10. The World mayor award

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9 letter word

supervene

8 letter word

revenues

7 letter words

veneers

6 letter words 

ensure; enures; nerves; peeves; pensee; peruse; preens; prunes; purees; reeves; revues; rupees; serene; severe; venues; vesper

5 letter words 

ensue; epees; evens; nevus; nurse; peens; peers; penes; pervs; prese; purse; renes; reuse; runes; serve; seven; sever; sneer; spree; sprue; spurn; super; veeps; veers; verse

4 letter words 

eves; pees; pens; puns; reps; revs; rues; runs; ruse; seen; seep; seer; sene; sere; spue; spun; spur; suer; sure; urns; user

DM168 ‘4th Estate’ Quiz 

  1. The earliest known journalistic product was a news sheet circulated in ancient Rome: the Acta Diurna, said to date from before 59 bce. The Acta Diurna recorded important daily events such as public speeches.
  2. The first regularly published newspaper appeared in German cities and in Antwerp about 1609.
  3. Daily Courant
  4. 17th century
  5. University of Missouri (Columbia)
  6. The second decade of the 21st century
  7. The Pulitzer Prize was started in 1917 to celebrate excellence in journalism
  8. True
  9. Journalism, or the press
  10. Yes

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assistant; satanists

8 letter word

satanist

7 letter words

attains

6 letter words 

assist; attain; saints; satins; stains; stasis; stints; taints; titans

5 letter words 

antis; saint; satin; snits; stain; stats; stint; taint; tints; titan

4 letter words 

anta; anti; ants; nits; sati; sits; snit; tain; tana; tans; tass; tats; tins; tint; tits

DM168 ‘Last-Minute Local Elections’ Quiz 

  1. B)26 Million
  2. 325
  3. ARA Africa Restoration Alliance
  4. Organic Humanity Movement
  5. If you live in a metropolitan area (e.g. Johannesburg), you’ll receive 2 ballots: 1 for a ward councillor and 1 for a party
  6. You’ll receive 3 ballots: 1 for a ward councillor for the Local Council; 1 for a party for the Local Council; and 1 for a party for the District Council.
  7. The EFF is entitled to 6 seats, the DA to 3 seats and the ANC 1 seat.
  8. False Ward candidates may stand as representatives of parties or as independents.
  9. No. You can only vote at the voting station where you are registered
  10. NO There are no special votes in local government elections

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furnished

7 letter words

finders; friends; hinders; infused; infuser; insured; redfish; refunds; unfired

6 letter words 

diners; diseur; fiends; finder; fished; fisher; friend; furies; hiders; hinder; indues; infers; infuse; insure; inured; inures; nursed; redfin; refund; rinsed; ruined; rushed; sherif; shined; shiner; shrine; snider; sunder; surfed; undies; ursine

5 letter words 

diner; dines; dries; druse; dunes; fends; ferns; feuds; fiend; fined; finer; fines; fired; fires; fresh; fried; fries; frise; fused; heirs; herds; hider; hides; hired; hires; indue; infer; inure; nerds; nuder; nudes; nurse; reins; rends; resin; rides; rinse; risen; runes; serif; serin; shend; sherd; shied; shier; shine; shire; shred; sired; siren; snide; under; unfed; urine

4 letter words 

dens; dies; dine; dire; dues; dune; ends; feds; fend; fens; fern; feud; fine; fire; fuse; heir; hens; herd; hern; hers; hide; hied; hies; hire; hued; hues; ides; nerd; nide; nude; reds; refs; rein; reis; rend; resh; ride; rife; rise; rude; rued; rues; rune; ruse; send; serf; shed; side; sine; sire; sued; suer; sure; used; user

DM168 ‘Child Prodigies’ Quiz 

  1. Under The Age of Ten
  2. John von Neumann
  3. Mexico
  4. Stevie Wonder
  5. Tiger Woods
  6. Nadia Comăneci
  7. Max Verstappen
  8. Malcom Gladwell
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Serena Williams

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hegemonic

7 letter words

echoing; genomic

6 letter words 

chigoe; coming; genome; gnomic; hoeing; homing

5 letter words 

ching; coign; genic; genie; gnome; henge; hinge; neigh

4 letter words 

gene; ghee; gone; hong; mong; nigh; ogee

DM168 ‘SA General Knowledge’Quiz 

 

  1. True. The Vredefort Crater is The Oldest and Largest Verified Crater Created by a Meteor Landing on Earth
  2. J. M. Coetzee
  3. Cape Agulhas
  4. Platinum
  5. Riotous Assembly or Indecent Exposure
  6. A new heart
  7. The Tugela Falls
  8. Monster
  9. Desmond Tutu
  10. The Lemba

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shippable

7 letter words

applies

6 letter words 

alephs; apples; espial; lipase; palish; phials; shlepp

5 letter words 

aleph; aphis; apish; appel; apple; blips; heaps; helps; lapse; leaps; pails; pales; peals; pebas; phase; phial; piles; pipes; plash; pleas; plebs; plies; salep; sepal; sepia; shape; shlep; spahi; spiel; spile

4 letter words 

alps; apes; apps; apse; baps; blip; hasp; heap; help; hips; laps; leap; lips; lisp; pail; pale; palp; pals; paps; pase; pash; peal; peas; peba; peps; phis; pies; pile; pipe; pips; pish; plea; pleb; psia; ship; slap; slip; spae

DM168 Quiz On Education

  1. Confucius
  2. In the 1820s
  3. Horace Mann and James Carter
  4. The Supreme Court
  5. Jan van Riebeeck
  6. To anglicise Cape society
  7. To bring to an end the missionary control of black education and to institute a system of mass education
  8. The Taliban
  9. 60%
  10. Yes, it’s true.

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flowingly

7 letter words

flowing; fowling; wolfing; yowling

6 letter words 

inflow; lowing

5 letter words 

flong; flown; folly; golly; gonif; lingo; login; lowly; owing; yogin

4 letter words 

filo; fino; flog; flow; fogy; foil; foin; fowl; glow; golf; gown; info; lilo; lino; lion; logy; loin; long; noil; oily; only; wino; wolf; yogi; yoni; yowl

DM168 ‘Wonders Of The World’ Quiz

  1. 70%
  2. The Amazon, South America
    Halong Bay, Vietnam
    Iguazú Falls, Argentina and Brazil
    Jeju Island, South Korea
    Komodo, Indonesia
    Puerto Princesa Underground River, Philippines

  3. aurora borealis
  4. Christ the Redeemer, a colossal statue of Jesus
  5. Emperor Shah Jahān (reigned 1628–58)
  6. The greater pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt
  7. Timbuktu
  8. The Great Barrier Reef
  9. The elephant
  10. Spekboom

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audiphone

8 letter words

dauphine

7 letter words

dauphin; unhoped

6 letter words 

dupion; unipod; unpaid

5 letter words 

adieu; audio; hound; indue; ouphe; pound; upend

4 letter words 

Dune

DM168 ‘Our History & Heritage’ Quiz

  1. The Khoisan (Khoi and San)
  2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  3. Then deputy president Thabo Mbeki
  4. The yellowood
  5. Sepedi, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga and isiNdebele
  6. The Balobedu
  7. Freedom Park
  8. The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town-building started in 1666
  9. Helen Suzman of the Progressive Party
  10. Ingrid Jonker

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tribalism

8 letter words

mistrial

7 letter words

mistral; similar; simitar

6 letter words 

alibis; ambits; brails; limits; mitral; mtil; smriti; tibial; tibias; timbal; trails; trials; tribal

6 letter words that can be proper nouns

Brasil; Ismail; Istria; Libras; Marist; Tamils

5 letter words 

airts; alibi; ambit; amirs; arils; astir; bails; baits; basil; birls; brail; brims; brits; iambi; iambs; lairs; liars; libra; limbs; limit; liras; litas; mails; milia; milts; mitis; rails; rials; salmi; simar; simba; sitar; stair; stria; tails; tamis ;tarsi; tibia; trail; trial; trims

5 letter words that can be proper nouns

Arbil; Blair; Iblis; Irbil; Islam; Libia; Maris; Marti; Misti; Mitra; Simla; Tamil; Tarim

4 letter words 

abri; ails; aims; airs; airt; alit; amir; aril; bail; bait; bias; birl; bits; brim; bris; brit; iamb; ibis; ilia; iris; lair; lari; lati; liar; limb; lira; list; mail; mils; milt; mist; rail; rial; ribs rims sail; sari; sati; silt; sima; slim; slit; smit; stir; tail; tali; trim

4 letter words that can be proper nouns

Albi; Amis; Asir; Asti; Atli; Bali; Bari; Iasi; Irma; Isar; Liam; Lias; Lima; Lisa; Mali; Mari; Mira; Rabi; Rita; Siam; Sita; Tais; Tami

DM168 ‘Know Your Local Government Elections’ Quiz

  1. FALSE In Municipal Elections, you vote for a political party and a ward councillor (a mixed system of PR and a ward constituency system) to get seats at the municipal level
  2. NO, during municipal elections you can only vote in the voting district in which you are registered. However, you can vote during national elections
  3. 1. ANC 53.9%
    2. DA 26.9%
    3. IFP 4.25%
  4. B 58%
  5. Mayor of Ekhuruleni Mzwandile Masina
  6. The DA led with 57 seats with the ANC receiving 50 seats.
  7. Msimanga resigned as mayor to become the Democratic Alliance’s Gauteng Premier candidate for the 2019 elections
  8. The One South Africa Movement
  9. Action SA
  10. Peter de Villiers

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conquered

7 letter words

crunode; encoder; encored

6 letter words 

corned; decern; encode; endure; enured; recode; redone; reduce

5 letter words 

ceder; cered; coder; coned; cored; credo; creed; crude; cured; decor; deuce; donee; douce; drone; dunce; educe; endue; erode; nuder; ronde; round; under; uredo

4 letter words 

cede; code; coed; cord; cred; crud; cued; curd; deco; deer; dene; doer; done; dour; dree; duce; dune; duro; need; nerd; node; nude; quod; rede; redo; reed; rend; rode; rude; rued; undo

DM168 ‘September 11’ Quiz

  1. 4: two Boeing 757s and two Boeing 767s)
  2. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
  3. A 1 hour and 20 minutes
  4. B) They were loaded with the greatest amount of explosive jet fuel.
  5. C) 2751
  6. Weapons of mass destruction
  7. The US Capitol
  8. C) They took a vote
  9. Box – cutting knives
  10. George W Bush

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dismissal

7 letter words

misdial; mislaid; missals

6 letter words 

dismal; miladi; missal; salmis

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Iliads; Islams; Ismail

5 letter words 

dials; mails; milia; sails; salmi; silds; sisal; slams; slims

4 letter words 

ails; alms; dial; ilia; lads; laid; lams; lass; lids; mail; mild; mils; sail; sild; slam; slid; slim

DM168 ‘Spring/s General Knowledge Test’ Quiz

  1. Wednesday 22 September
  2. The Namaqualand Flower Route
  3. Spring tides occur twice each lunar month all year long, without regard to the season.
  4. The South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union
  5. Alexander Pope
  6. The Sun appears at the zenith (directly overhead) on the first day of spring and the first day of autumn.
  7. Spring
  8. Great Sphinx
  9. Spring onions
  10. Anthophilia

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9 letter word

diastolic

7 letter words

colitis; cotidal; dacoits; italics; solicit; stoical

6 letter words 

coatis; coital; costal; dacoit; dicast; dicots; italic; octads; scotia; silica; social; ticals

5 letter words 

acids; ascot; asdic; ciaos; cilia; clits; clods; clots; coals; coast; coati; coats; codas; coils; colas; colds; colts; costa; dicot; dicta; disco; iliac; iodic; licit; lotic; octad; octal; scald; scold; stoic; tacos; tical

4 letter words 

acid; acts; asci; cadi; cads; cast; cats; ciao; cist; clad; clit; clod; clos; clot; coal; coat; coda; cods; coil; cola; cold; coli; cols; colt; cost; cots; disc; docs; laic; loci; otic; scad; scat; taco; talc; tics

DM168 ‘Inter-Generational POP’ Quiz

  1. The Born-Frees those born after the end of apartheid form 40% of the South African population.
  2. The Greatest Generation
  3. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
  4. ABBA
  5. Spike Lee
  6. 3
  7. FRANCE
  8. The “sandwich” is attributed to John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), a British statesman and gambler, who is said to be the inventor of this type of food so that he would not have to leave his gaming table to take supper.
  9. The Black Mamba
  10. The Enola Gay

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9 letter word

fuzziness

7 letter words

infuses

6 letter words 

fizzes; fuzzes; infuse

5 letter words 

fines; fuses

4 letter words 

fens; fess; fine; fins; fizz; fuse; fuss; fuzz

DM168 ‘Bring on The Sunshine’ Quiz

  1. Sunflower
  2. Hair
  3. Nik Kershaw
  4. A Raisin in the Sun
  5. Eastern Cape
  6. Neil Finn from Crowded House
  7. Shaka kaSenzangakhona
  8. About 1 million
  9. Mamelodi Sundowns
  10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

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9 letter word

youngster

8 letter word

sturgeon; youngest

7 letter words

eryngos; groynes; gurneys; surgeon; tongues; yogurts; younger

6 letter words 

eryngo; gentry; goners; grouse; grouts; grouty; groyne; grunts; gunter; gurney; guyots; gyrose; rogues; rouges; rugose; strong; strung; tongue; urgent; yogurt

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Geryon; Negros

5 letter words 

ergot; genro; gents; genus; goers; goner; gores; gorse; gouty; greys; grots; grout; grunt; guest; gusto; gusty; gutsy; guyot; gyres; gyron; gyros; gyrus; negro; negus; ogres; rogue; rouge; rungs; segno; stogy; stung; surge; surgy; tongs; trugs; urges; young

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Goren; Gorey; Grote; Norge; Roget; Synge

4 letter words 

egos; ergo; ergs; gens; gent; genu; gest; gets; gnus; goer; goes; goey; gone; gore; gory; gout; goys; grey; grot; guns; gust; guts; guys; gyre; gyro; nogs; ogre; orgy; rugs; rung; snog; snug; song; sung; togs; tong; trug; tugs; urge

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Gers; Gros; Grus; Roeg; Yong

DM168 ‘Cabinet ReShuffle’ Quiz

  1. The Ministry of Human Settlements and Ministry of Water and Sanitation.
  2. From Human Settlements, water & sanitation to Tourism
  3. Jackson Mthembu
  4. 28
  5. Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
  6. Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise
  7. False. Kodwa is Deputy Minister in the Presidency: State Security
  8. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana
  9. Digital Vibes
  10. His former deputy Dr Joe Paahla

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9 letter word

suspicion

8 letter word

opinicus

7 letter words

cousins; spinous

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Poussin; Socinus

6 letter words 

cousin

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Pincus

5 letter words 

coups; cusps; incus; nisus; pious; scups; sinus; soups

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ipsus; Punic

4 letter words 

coup; cups; cusp; cuss; nous; onus; opus; puns; puss; scup; soup; sous; spun; suns; sups; unis; upon

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Pius

DM168 ‘Women’s Day’ Quiz

  1. The capital of the Orange Free State of South Africa, Bloemfontein
  2. Women were taken away from their families if authorities felt they had broken laws that forced them to carry passes
  3. No response
  4. Charlotte Maxeke
  5. Native Laws Amendment Act
  6. Federation of South African Women (FSAW)
  7. The Women’s Charter
  8. Rahima Moosa, Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph and Sophia Williams
  9. J.G. Strijdom
  10. ‘Wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo,”, translated, “you strike the women you strike a rock.”

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9 letter word

gratifier

8 letter word

irrigate; ratifier

7 letter words

frigate; grifter

6 letter words 

aigret; airier; artier; fairer; gaiter; triage

5 letter words 

afire; afrit; feria; firer; friar; frier; grief; grift; irate; refit; rifer; tiger; trier

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aegir; Artie; Terai; Terri; Tigre

4 letter words 

airt; fair; fiat; fire; frig; frit; gait; gift; girt; gite; grit; ragi; rif; rift; rite; tier; tire; trig

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Frei; Riga; Rigi; Rita; Taif; Teri

DM168 ‘Know Your Olympics’ Quiz

  1. Sizwe Ndlovu
    Matthew Brittain
    John Smith
    James Thompson
  2. Men’s 200m butterfly
  3. 1904
  4. Wayde van Niekerk
  5. Womens’ 800 m
  6. Usain Bolt
  7. skateboarding, baseball, surfing, karate and climbing
  8. Nadia Comaneci
  9. Simone Biles
  10. Ben Johnson

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9 letter word

rosaceous

8 letter word

carouses

7 letter words

arouses; carouse; caseous; courses; sarcous; sources; sucrose

7 letter words that may be pronouns

Croesus

6 letter words 

across; arouse; cerous; coarse; course; crosse; crouse; rouses; scores; scours; serosa; serous; source

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Caruso; Crusoe; Oscars; Roscoe; Roseau

5 letter words 

arose; ceros; cores; corse; cross; euros; oases; ocrea; oecus; orcas; roose; roses; roues; rouse; saros; score; scour; soars; sores; sorus; sours; souse

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Coors; Orcus; Oscar; Russo; Sousa

4 letter words 

aero; cero; coos; core; coss; euro; oars; orca; orcs; ores; oses; ours; rocs; roes; rose; roue; soar; sora; sore; sour; sous

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Cora; Eros; Oreo; Ossa; Ouse; Roca; Rosa; Ross; Sosa

DM168 ‘South Africa General Knowledge’ Quiz

  1. 58.8 million
  2. 38% according to https://tradingeconomics.com/south-africa/employed-persons
  3. 63.3%
  4. Tuberculosis
  5. About 28,8% of the population is aged younger than 15 years and approximately 9,0% is 60 years or older
  6. 1. (25,3%) of individuals spoke isiZulu at home
    2. 14,8% of individuals spoke isiXhosa
    3. 12,2% spoke Afrikaans.
  7. Christianity is the most common with 43 423 717 believers
    The second most common belief is no religious affiliation/belief – 5 964 892 non affiliated or non -believers
  8. 57.50%,
  9. DA leader John Steenhuisen
  10. EFF leader Julius Malema

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9 letter word

lightness

8 letter word

lightens; shingles; sleights

7 letter words

english; lengths; lighten; nighest; shingle; sleighs; sleight; slights

7 letter words that may be pronouns

Hengist

6 letter words 

eights; heists; hinges; length; lights; neighs; nights; shiest; shines; sights; sleigh; slight; thesis; things

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Shensi

5 letter words 

eight; heist; hilts; hinge; hints; light; lithe; neigh; night; shies; shine; shins; shits; sighs; sight; thegn; thine; thing; thins

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ghent; Hines; Leigh; Leith; Singh

4 letter words 

hens; hent; hest; hies; hilt; hins; hint; hiss; hits; nigh; shes; shin; shit; sigh; sinh; then; thin; this

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Gish; Hess; Seth

DM168 ‘Know Your Jacob Zuma’ Quiz

  1. Judge Sisi Khampepe
  2. Ukhozi FM DJ Ngizwe Mchunu
  3. Dali Mpofu
  4. Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
  5. Duduzile and Duduzane Zuma
  6. She was Jacob Zuma’s third wife Kate Mantsho‚ who committed suicide in December 2000.
  7. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala
  8. Jacob Zuma

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9 letter word

selfishly

7 letter words

fleshly; selfish

6 letter words 

elfish; filses; fishes; fleshy; shells; shelly

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Sisley

5 letter words 

fells; felly; files; flesh; flies; hells; isles; lisle; lyses; sells; shelf; shell; shies; yells

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ellis

4 letter words 

ells; fell; fess; file; fley; hell; hies; isle; leis; less; leys; lief; lies; life; lyse; self; sell; shes; yell

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Elis; Hess; Leif; Lely; Lyle

DM168 ‘WIMBLEDON’ Quiz

  1. Goran Ivanisevic
  2. Venus Williams (at 129 mph)
  3. Angelique Kerber
  4. The Venus Rosewater Dish
  5. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  6. Maria Sharapova
  7. Four times..Serena won three out of four
  8. Novak Djokovic
  9. 8 times
  10. Martina Navratilova

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9 letter word

alienisms

8 letter words

alienism; salinise

8 letter words that may be proper nouns

Islamise; Milesian; Silesian

7 letter words

aimless; inseams; liaises; malines; menials; missile; salines; samiels; samisen; seminal; silesia; simians; similes

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Melissa; Messina

6 letter words 

aisles; aliens; amines; emails; inseam; lassie; liaise; limens; manses; mensal; mesial; missal; niseis; saline; salmis; samiel; sanies; sansei; seisin; sileni; simian; simile; slimes; smiles; snails

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Amiens; Anselm; Islams; Ismael; Ismail; Lassen; Maisie; Melisa

5 letter words 

aisle; amiss; anils; anise; isles; issei; lames; lanes; leans; lenis; liens; limes; limns; lines; mails; mains; males; manes; manse; meals; means; mesas; miens; miles; minas; mines; minis; nails; names; nisei; sails; sales; salmi; sames; sasin; seals; seams; seism; semis; sines; sisal; slain; slams; slime; slims; smile; snail

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aisne; Elias; Elisa; Islam; Mensa; Niles; Nimes; Salem; Selim; Selma; Siena; Silas; Simla; Sinai

4 letter words 

ails; aims; ales; alms; anis; elms; isle; isms; lams; lase; lass; leas; leis; lens; less; lies; mans; mass; mesa; mess; mils; mise; miss; ness; nisi; sail; sain; sale; same; sane; sans; seal; seam; seas; semi; sens; sima; sims; sine; sins; slam; slim

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Amis; Elis; Elsa; Iasi; Ines; Isis; Lesa; Lias; Lisa; Nils; Sean; Siam; Sian

DM168 ‘Know Your EFF’ Quiz

  1. Sputnik V and Sinovac
  2. Vuyani Pambo
  3. Malema earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and African Languages, from UNISA.
  4. Political Studies
  5. Sgameka Projects
  6. 44 seats
  7. Andile Mngxitama
  8. CLICKS
  9. ADRIANO MAZZOTTI
  10. Ratanang Family Trust

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9 letter word

cracksmen

7 letter words

cancers; cankers; smacker

6 letter words 

cancer; caners; canker; casern; cracks; crakes; cranes; cranks; creaks; creams; meccas; sacker; scarce; screak; scream

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Carmen; Neckar

5 letter words 

acmes; acres; cakes; caner; canes; cares; carks; carse; crack; crake; crams; crane; crank; creak;cream; maces; macks; marcs; mecca; nacre; narcs; necks
races; racks; rance; scare; scram; smack; snack; sneck

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Carne; Ceram; Cesar; Emacs; Merca; Merck

4 letter words 

aces; acme; acne; acre; arcs; cake; came; cams; cane; cans; care; cark; cars; case; cask; ceca; cram; mace; mack; macs; marc; narc; neck; race; rack; reck; sack; scam; scan; scar

DM168 ‘Sports Trivia’ Quiz

  1. Eldrick
  2. Turkey
  3. The longest tennis match lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes and was contested over three days between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at 2010 Wimbledon.
  4. Cristiano Ronaldo – Galaxy Cosmos Redshift 7 (CR7)
  5. Dan Carter
  6. Natalie Du Toit
  7. The Ivory Coast national football team played a match in the rebel capital of Bouaké in 2007 and brought both the government and rebel armies together peacefully for the first time.
  8. Matt Damon
  9. Football which has 4 billion fans
  10. Ping-pong or table tennis

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9 letter word

buckwheat

7 letter words

hackbut

6 letter words 

bucket

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Hecuba

5 letter words 

acute; beaut; butch; chute

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Ceuta; Kutch

4 letter words 

abut; beau; buck; chub; cube; cuke; cute; haku; tabu; tuba; tube; tuck

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Aube; Baku; Batu; Bute; Cebu; Cuba; Huck; Utah

DM168 ‘JUNE 16’ Quiz

  1. Hendrik Verwoerd
  2. Hector Pieterson
  3. Sam Nzima
  4. The Soweto Students’ Representative Council’s (SSRC) Action Committee.
  5. John Vorster
  6. The compulsory use of the Afrikaans language as a medium of instruction
  7. Punt Janson
  8. Naledi High in Naledi and Morris Isaacson in Mofolo.
  9. Teboho “Tsietsi” MacDonald Mashinini
  10. President Nelson Mandela

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9 letter word

occlusion

8 letter words

colonics; councils

7 letter words

cloison; colonic; council; uncoils

7 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Niccolo; Solonic

6 letter words 

clonus; colons; conics; consul; coulis; cousin; uncoil; uncool

5 letter words 

cisco; cocos; coils; coins; colic; colon; conic; cools; coons; icons; incus; locos; locus; oculi; scion; sonic; sulci

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Clios; Colin; Cusco; Lucio

 

4 letter words 

cion; clos; coco; coil; coin; coli; cols; cons; cool; coon; coos; icon; loci; loco

 

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Clio

DM168 ‘Know Your NPA’ Quiz

  1. The Directorate of Special Operations or THE SCORPIONS
  2. BULELANI NGCUKA
  3. Sexual Offences and Community Affairs (SOCA) unit
  4. Willie Hofmeyer
  5. The Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU)
  6. Gerrie Nel
  7. Advocate Vusi Pikoli
  8. In a televised news conference, Mpshe, said that the charges were dropped because the top NPA investigator, Leonard McCarthy, had manipulated the timing of the case against Zuma in late 2007 to coincide with the party elections of that year.
  9. Shaun Abrahams
  10. Shamila Batohi

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9 letter word

bollixing

7 letter words 

illing; billion; boiling

6 letter words 

billon; boxing; globin; goblin; oiling

5 letter words 

bingo; bling; blini; inbox; lingo; login

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Ilion; Ixion

4 letter words 

bong; lino; lion; loin; long; noil

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Bini; Gino; Olin

DM168 ‘INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM’ Quiz

  1. WATERGATE
  2. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  3. Deep Throat
  4. THE INFORMATION SCANDAL
  5. Mervyn Rees and Chris Day
  6. Mzilikazi wa Afrika, Piet Rampedi and Stephan Hofstatter
  7. Daily Maverick, amaBhungane and News24
  8. Henry Nxumalo
  9. Ida B Wells
  10. Vrye Weekblad

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9 letter word

chittered

8 letter words

tetchier

7 letter words 

chitter; heretic; retched; techier

6 letter words 

cheder; chider; cither; dither; either; etched; etcher; herdic; hitter; itched; techie; tether; thetic; thrice; tithed; tither

5 letter words 

cheer; chert; chide; ditch; ether; ethic; heder; hider; hired; retch; teeth; their; there; third; three; titch; tithe

4 letter words 

chid; chit; echt; etch; heed; heir; herd; here; hide; hied; hire; itch; rich; teth; thee

DM168 ‘ WINTER FAMILY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE POP’ Quiz

  1. House Stark
  2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  3. Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  4. John Steinbeck
  5. “Baby Jake” Matlala,
  6. Strelitzia
  7. Sutherland in the Northern Cape
  8. Tiffendell
  9. Eugene Marais
  10. 1) Antihistamines which block histamines, which cause tissues to become swollen and can itch. 2) Decongestants which reduce swelling in blood vessels and tissues, which help to get rid of the stuffy feeling when you have a cold.

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9 letter word

homeowner

7 letter words 

hormone; moorhen; nowhere; whereon

6 letter words 

erenow; hereon; moreen

5 letter words 

heron; homer; honer; honor; horme; moron; mower: nohow; owner; romeo; whore; women; wooer

4 letter words 

enow; hero; hoer; home; homo; hone; horn; meow; mono; moon; moor; more; morn; mown; norm; omen; omer; room; whom; wore; worm; worn

DM168 ‘Know your F1 Grand Prix’ Quiz

  1. Nino Farina
  2. Jody Scheckter
  3. Max Verstappen (2016 Spanish Grand Prix, aged 18)
  4. McClaren
  5. 7
  6. Lewis Hamilton 98
  7. Max Verstappen’s Red Bull crew at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix in 1.82 seconds
  8. Niki Lauda
  9. Mercedes (2016)
  10. Lella Lombardi (1975 Spanish Grand Prix)

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9 letter word

polluting

7 letter words 

polling; pouting; pulling; tolling

6 letter words 

loping; luting; opting; outing; pignut; plugin; poling; puling; toping

5 letter words 

gipon; glint; guilt; ingot; input; lingo; login; lungi; lupin; oping; pilot; pinto; piton; poilu; point; tigon; tulip; unlit; until

4 letter words 

gill; gilt; into; lilo; lilt; lino; lint; lion; loin; loti; noil; pill; ping; pint; pion; puli; till; ting; toil; topi; unit

DM168 ‘THERE IS MORE TO THE ANC THAN ACE & JZ’ Quiz

  1. South African Native National Congress
  2. The aim was to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms which were systematically eroded when the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, giving Afrikaners self-determination.
  3. Sol Plaatje
  4. Natives Land Act, Act No 27 of 1913
  5. Sefako Makgatho
  6. Albertina Sisulu
  7. Anton Lembede
  8. Nelson Mandela
  9. Barbara Hogan
  10. Bathabile Dlamini

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9 letter word

trembling

8 letter words

trebling

7 letter words 

belting; gilbert; nimbler; timbrel

6 letter words 

begirt; berlin; binger; bingle; gerbil; giblet; limber; nimble; timber; timbre

5 letter words 

begin; being; bilge; binge; biter; blent; brent; brine; bring; giber; liber; tribe

4 letter words 

bel; bent; berg; berm;bier; bile; bine; birl; bite; brei; brie; brig; brim; brit; gibe; glib; limb

 

DM168 ‘May Day Workers’ Quiz

  1. New Zealand
  2. Bheki Ntshalintshali
  3. Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!
  4. NUM National Union of Mineworkers
  5. Kenya
  6. Saint Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary and surrogate father of Jesus, was made the patron saint of May Day of 1 May by the Catholic Church in 1955 due to his perceived work ethic.
  7. It is compulsory for designated employers i.e. employers who employee 50 or more employees, employers who employ less than 50 employees but whose annual turnover exceeds or equals the amounts in schedule 4 of the EEA, or an employer who has been declared a designated employer in terms of a collective agreement.
  8. Karl Marx
  9. Kazakhstan
  10. Let them eat cake

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9 letter word

artificer

8 letter words

artifice; craftier; criteria; ratifier; terrific

7 letter words 

cirrate; erratic

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Cartier

6 letter words 

airier; artier; fairer; ferric; fiacre; iatric; racier

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Carrie; Tracie; Tricia

5 letter words 

afire; afrit; ceria; cirri; crier; farci; fecit; feria; firer; friar; frier; icier; irate; recti; refit; ricer; rifer; trice; trier

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Artie; Erica; Terai; Terri; Traci

4 letter words 

airt; cire; cite; fair; fiat; fire; frit; rice; rife; rift; rite; tier; tire

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Eric; Frei; Rita; Taif; Teri

DM168 ‘General Knowledge’ Quiz

  1. Thuli Madonsela and Deon Meyer
  2. The White Spiritual Boy Trust
  3. Charlotte Maxeke hospital
  4. Luxor
  5. Julius Malema
  6. Johnson and Johnson vaccine
  7. The Jagger library
  8. Nicky Oppenheimer
  9. The bill for the commission stood at R800-million at the last count.
  10. Molefi Ntseki

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9 letter word

obscuring

8 letter words

Rubicons

7 letter words 

bicorns; bousing; curbing; sorbing

6 letter words 

bicorn; boring; bourns; brings; broncs; bruins; buncos; burins; busing; coburg; cubing; robing; robins; suborn

5 letter words 

bingo; bison; bogus; bongs; bonus; boric; bosun; bourg; bourn; brigs; bring; bronc; bruin; bunco; bungs; burgs; burin; burns; cribs; curbs; grubs; robin; scrub

4 letter words 

bins; bios; bogs; bong; born; bour; brig; brio; bris; bugs; bung; buns; burg; burn; burs; cobs; crib; cubs; curb; gobs; grub; guib; nibs; nobs; nubs; obis; orbs; ribs; robs; rubs; snob; snub; sorb

DM168 ‘KNOW YOUR PROTEAS FAMILY FUN’ Quiz

  1. Hansie Cronje
  2. Jacques Kallis
  3. Makhaya Ntini
  4. Dean Elgar
  5. 45 in the first test of New Zealand’s tour of South Africa in 2013
  6. Heinrich Klaasen
  7. Lance Klusener
  8. Gibbs made some derogatory racist comments against the opposition players which were caught on the mic.
  9. Allan Donald
  10. Lungile Ngidi

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9 letter word

autotypes

8 letter words

autotype

7 letter words 

autopsy; outstay; payouts; teapots; upstate

6 letter words 

aptest; astute; outset; payout; spotty; statue; teapot; toasty

5 letter words 

autos; estop; outta; paste; pasty; pates; patsy; patty; peaty; pesto; pesty; petty; poets; potty; pouts; pouty; putto; putts; putty; saute; septa; setup; spate; spout; sputa; state; stoat; stope; stoup; stout; stupa; stupe; suety; tapes; taste; tasty; taupe; teats; testa; testy; toast; toeas; topes; totes; touts; types; typos; upset; yeast

4 letter words 

atop; auto; east; eats; etas; eyot; oast; oats; opts; oust; outs; past; pate; pats; peat; pest; pets; poet; post; pots; pout; puts; putt; sate; seat; sept; sett; spat; spot; stay; step; stet; stoa; stop; stye; suet; tape; taps; tats; taus; taut; teas; teat; test; toea; toes; tope; tops; tost; tote; tots; tout; toys; tuts; type; typo; yest

 

DM168 ‘OUR BURNING PLANET’ Quiz

  1. The African forest elephant and the African savanna elephant.
  2. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife nature conservation agency.
  3. CoP26
  4. Demersal trawling.
  5. 34%
  6. Swim for Rivers.
  7. Barbara Creecy.
  8. The white rhino
  9. Lake St Lucia
  10. Mineral Sands Resources (MSR)

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9 letter word

parlously

8 letter words

payrolls

7 letter words 

parlous; payroll; plurals; pylorus

6 letter words 

orally; pallor; plural; pulsar; royals; sapour; sourly

5 letter words 

lours; loury; orals; parol; polar; pours; prays; prosy; purls; pursy; rally; raspy; rolls; royal; saury; slurp; solar; spray; supra; sural; surly; syrup; yours

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Paros; Raoul; Surya; Urals

4 letter words 

aryl; lour; oars; oral; ours; pars; pour; prau; pray; proa; pros; purl; raps; rasp; rays; roll; ropy; rosy; roup; ryas; slur; soar; sora; sour; spar; spry; spur; sura; your

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Arlo; Asur; Lars; Lora; Lyra; Orly; Parl; Prus; Raul; Rosa; Ural; Ursa

 

DM168 ‘Easter Family’ Quiz

  1. Toffee
  2. A pocket watch
  3. It represents Jesus Christ’s sacrifice in wilderness before dying on the cross
  4. Russell Brand
  5. The Holy Week
  6. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion.
  7. Mary Magdelene
  8. Catholics believe that the pope is the successor to Saint Peter whom Jesus appointed as the first head of his church.
  9. The Life of Brian
  10. According to history.com the egg, an ancient symbol of new life, has been associated with pagan festivals celebrating spring. From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and resurrection.

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9 letter word

reengaged

8 letter words

reengage; renegade

7 letter words 

angered; derange; engaged; engager; enraged; grandee; greened; grenade; reneged

6 letter words 

agreed; dagger; danger; degage; degree; earned; endear; engage; enrage; gander; ganged; ganger; garden; geared; gender; genera; grange; nagged; nagger; neared; ragged; ranged; reggae; renege

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Greene

5 letter words 

agger; agree; anger; denar; eager; eagre; eared; edger; egged; egger; gaged; genre; grade; greed; green; raged; ranee; range; redan

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Andre; Arden; Daren; Deane; Deena; Deere; Edgar; Nader; Reade; Renee

4 letter words 

aged; agee; dare; dean; dear; deer; dene; dree; dreg; earn; edge; egad; erne; gage; gean; gear; geed; gene; gree; near; need; nerd; rage; read; rede; reed; rend

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Aden; Arne; Dane; Dena; Deng; Eden; Edna; Eger; Erna; Gena; Gera; Gere; Greg; Rena; Rene

 

DM168 ‘Get to know Kanye West’ Quiz

 

  1. College DropOut
  2. Dondas House  (https://pitchfork.com/news/dondas-house-kanye-founded-nonprofit-in-upheaval-after-kim-kardashian-and-rhymefest-fight/)
  3. VMA 2009
  4. Adidas and GAP
  5. It seems even those with a taste for contemporary art couldn’t open their wallets very far–even in the name of the Save the Children charity–for the monstrosity that is the Jay-Z/Kanye West ‘Otis’ Maybach. It sold for just $60,000 at the New York Contemporary Art Evening auction held by Phillips de Pury & Co.
  6. 4, North, Saint , Psalm and Chicago West
  7. 22 (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kanye-west-wins-gospel-grammy-jesus-is-king-1234930224/)
  8. Jesus is king
  9. https://people.com/tv/kim-kardashian-felt-kanye-west-wasnt-willing-to-compromise-in-their-marriage-source/
  10. Pusha T who is also an artist signed Good music and partnership with Def Jam

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9 letter word

hamadryad

6 letter words 

armada; dharma

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Adhara; Ramada

5 letter words 

damar; drama; dryad; hardy; hydra

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Ahmad; Hadar

4 letter words 

dada; dram; dray; dyad; hard; yard

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Adam; Adar; Arad

 

DM168 ‘HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW YOUR CAF PRESIDENT’ Quiz

 

  1. Patrice Motsepe, Bridgette Radebe and Tshepo Motsepe

  2. Bowman Gilfillan

  3. African Rainbow Minerals
  4. 2008

  5. The mining magnate was the first African to sign Bill Gates’ and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, promising to give at least half his fortune to charity.

  6. Motsepe told Donald Trump that Africa loves him and loves America.

  7. She trained as a medical doctor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and completed her masters in public health at Harvard School of Public Health. In 2012, she completed a Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Programme at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

  8. Bridgette Radebe, who found Mmakau Mining, a successful mining firm with assets in platinum, gold, uranium, coal, chrome, exploration and mining interests.

  9. Mamelodi Sundowns

  10. Ahmad Ahmad, from the East African nation of Madagascar.

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9 letter word

brabbling

8 letter words

babbling; blabbing

7 letter words 

barbing; blaring

6 letter words 

baling; baring; rabbin

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Gibran

5 letter words 

algin; align; argil; bairn; binal; blain; brail; brain; bring; glair; grail; grain; libra; ligan; rabbi

 

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Arbil; Arlin; Blair; Bragi; Brian; Rabin

 

4 letter words 

abri; anil; aril; bail; bani; bibb; birl; brig; gain; girl; glia; glib; grin; lain; lair; lari; liar; lira; nail; ragi; rail; rain; rani; rial; ring

 

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Abib; Agni; Albi; Babi; Bali; Bari; Bibl; Gail; Gila; Gina; Iran; Lina; Nair; Rabi; Riga

 

DM168 ‘COVID 19 VACCINE AND TREATMENT’ Quiz

 

  1. When a lot of people in a community are vaccinated, the pathogen has a hard time circulating because most of the people it encounters are immune. So the more that others are vaccinated, the less likely people who are unable to be protected by vaccines are at risk of even being exposed to the harmful pathogens. (Source https://www.gov.za/covid-19/vaccine/vaccine?gclid=Cj0KCQiAs5eCBhCBARIsAEhk4r4yiBtDJPzMgPN72kSWX8OSKtsgm511wPnwTrj2mramv7jF3fKutdEaArFfEALw_wcB#)

  2. AstraZeneca-Oxford
    (source https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/south-africa-suspends-use-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-after-it-fails-clearly-stop)

  3. The Serum Institute
    (Source https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/sa-receive-first-consignment-covid-19-vaccine)

  4. Janssen – the vaccine-making subsidiary of the pharma giant Johnson & Johnson
    (SOURCE https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/everything-we-know-about-johnson-johnsons-single-dose-covid-19-vaccine?gclid=Cj0KCQiAs5eCBhCBARIsAEhk4r6oBm9We0-6Knmm5Gkk3AWxUMbJvpKdRTei2PPVzocMuo_36lNuhfcaAmk4EALw_wcB)

  5. GAVI
    (Source https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/about)

  6. No. COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way.
    Messenger RNA vaccines—also called mRNA vaccines—are the first COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States. mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response. The mRNA from a COVID-19 vaccine never enters the nucleus of the cell, which is where our DNA is kept.
    (SOURCE https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html)

  7. Yes. People who want to get pregnant in the future may receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
    (SOURCE https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html)

  8. No A study in Columbia of 398 people with mild Covid-19 symptoms found that ivermectin offered no statistically significant benefit over placebo. The results were published in the prestigious Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)
    (SOURCE https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389?guestAccessKey=e98010ef-e747-40ad-b865-a18c9c0450d9&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=030421)

  9. Moderna and Pfizer/ BioNtech
    (SOURCE https://theconversation.com/4-things-about-mrna-covid-vaccines-researchers-still-want-to-find-out-154160)

  10. 4
    (Source
    https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork)

 

 

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We’ve never had a scientist for our Spot the Difference, but seeing as she is the powerhouse behind getting our health workers the Johnson and Johnson vaccine as part of a research trial, spot ten respectful differences between these two pictures of President & CEO of the South African Medical Research Council Professor Glenda Gray.

 

 

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9 letter word

standpipe

8 letter words

nappiest

7 letter words 

appends; nappies; painted; panties; pedants; pentads; sandpit; sapient; snapped; snipped; snippet; stipend

6 letter words 

adepts; append; instep; napped; nipped; pained; paints; pandit; panted; pantie; papist; pasted; pedant; pentad; pepsin; pietas; pineta; ptisan; sapped; sipped; sippet; sniped; spinet; spited; tapped; tipped

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Petain

5 letter words 

adept; aspen; inapt; inept; napes; nappe; neaps; nipas; pains; paint; paned; panes; pants; paste; paten; pates; patin; peans; pends; penis; pieta; pined; pines; pinta; pints; piped; pipes; pipet; piste; pitas; sapid; sepia; septa; snipe; spade; spate; spend; spent; spied; spine; spite; stipe; taped; tapes; tapis; tepid 

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Paine; Papen; Pepin; Pepsi; Pisan; Spain

 

4 letter words 

aped; apes; apse; dips; nape; naps; neap; nipa; nips; pads; paid; pain; pane; pans; pant; paps; pase; past; pate; pats; pean; peas; peat; pein; pens; pent; peps; pest; pets; pied; pies; piet; pine; pins; pint; pipe; pips; pita; pits; psia; psid; sept; snap; snip; spae; span; spat; sped; spin; spit; step; tape; taps; tips

 

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Apis; Depp; Epis; iPad; Pena; Pisa

 

DM168 ‘know your crown’ Quiz

 

  1. Royal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

  2. Wallis Simpson

  3. Queen Elizabeth II’s father, King George VI

  4. Cape Town

  5. 1952

  6. Princess Diana

  7. Prince Harry

  8. Princess Margaret, the Queen’s sister

  9. 54

  10. Westminster Abb

 

 

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9 letter word

heptagons; pathogens

8 letter words

heptagon; pathogen; phaetons; stanhope 

7 letter words 

gestapo; hostage; onstage; phaeton; phonate; postage;  potages; teashop 

7 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Stephan 

6 letter words 

agents; atones; hapten; hasten; honest; pantos; pathos; pontes; potage; potash; spathe; tangos; thanes; thongs

 

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Ashton; Athens; Heston; Pashto; Sontag; Stheno

 

5 letter word

agent; angst; antes; atone; estop; ethos; etnas; gates; gents; ghats; ghost; gnats; goats; goths; haste; hates; heats; hosta; nates; neath; notes; oaten; oaths; onset; panto; pants; paste; paten; pates; paths; pesto; phots; poets; septa; shoat; shote; snath; spate; spent; stage; stane; stang; staph; steno; stone; stope; tango; tangs; tapes; thane; thegn; thong; those; toeas; togae; togas; tones; tonga; tongs; topes

 

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Aneto; Aston; Athos; Eaton; Ethan; Ghent; Gotha; Oates; Pasto; Paton; Seton; Tahoe

 

4 letter words

ante; ants; atop; east; eats; etas; etna; gate; gats; gent; gest; gets; ghat; gnat; goat; goth; hast; hate; hats; heat; hent; hest; host; hots; neat; nest; nets; note; oast; oath; oats; opts; pant; past; pate; path; pats; peat; pent; pest; pets; phat; poet; post; pots; sate; seat; sent; sept; shat; shot; snot; spat; spot; stag; step; stoa; stop; tags; tang; tanh; tans; tape; taps; teas; tens; than; then; toea; toes; toga; togs; tone; tong; tons; tope; tops; tosh

 

4 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Aten; Aton; Esth; Eton; Gath; Nate; Neth; Ptah; Seth; Stan; Taos; Thea

 

DM168 ‘SA Sport’ Quiz

 
  1. Albert Johanneson was a left wing who represented Leeds United in 200 matches in the 1960s, netting 68 times. After signing for English club Coventry City in 1955, he went on to achieve superstar status playing for Dutch side Heracles and later for Torino in Italy

  2. Jannie de Beer in the quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup in October 1999, kicked five dropped goals, all in the second half, as South Africa won 44-21

  3. Mike Procter

  4. Matthews ‘Loop- en-val’ Motshwarateu

  5. Natalie Du Toit

  6. Ryk Neethling

  7. 1995

  8. England

  9. Themba Zwane of Mamelodi Sundowns

  10. Zola Budd

 
 

 

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9 letter word

jaywalker

6 letter words

lawyer; walker

6 letter words (that may be proper nouns):

Kerala; Warley

5 letter words

alary; areal; aware; early; jerky; kraal; laker; layer; relay; weary; wreak

5 letter words that may be proper nouns: 

Jewry; Karaj; Karaj; Leary; Waler

4 letter words

aery; ajar; alar; arak; area; aryl; awry; earl; eyra; jarl; jerk; lark; lyre; raja; rake; rale; real; rely; ware; wary; wear; yare; year

 
 

4 letter words (that may be proper nouns):

Aral; Ayer; Kara; Karl; Lara; Lear; Lyra; Ryle

Daily Maverick’s Quiz

 
  1. They are not allowed to be reincarnated

  2. The Lee family of Singapore

  3. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  4. Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

  5. Muammar Gadaffi

  6. Sasha Barron Cohen

  7. Pol Pot

  8. Bashar al-Assad’s was 34 at the the time and did so he could succeed his father as president

  9. “I intend to open this country up to democracy and I will jail anybody who says otherwise”.

  10. Augusto Pinochet

 
 

 

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9 letter words

cretinoid; direction

8 letter words

centroid; doctrine; indicter; indictor; indirect

7 letter words

centroid; citrine; cordite; critine; crinoid; ctenoid; diction; dineric; identic; incited; inciter; neritic; noticed; oneiric

7 letter word (may be proper nouns)

Citroen

6 letter words

centroid; cinder; citrin; citron; codein; coiner; corned; cornet; credit; cretin; divier; direct; docent; erotic; incite; indict; irenic; ironic; nitric; noetic; notice; orcein; recoin

 

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Corine; Enrico; Nordic; Ticino

 

5 letter words

cento; cider; cited; coder; coned; conte; cored; credo; cried; crine; crone; decor; dicer; dicot; edict; icier; iodic; ionic; nicer; ontic; recon; recti; recto; riced; tonic; trice

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Creon; Doric; Iceni; Indic

4 letter words

cedi; cent; cero; cine; cion; cire; cite; code; coed; coin; coir; cone; cord; core; corn; cote; cred; deco; dice; iced; icon; nice; once; otic; rice

 

 4 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Ceto; Eric; Rico

 

Daily Maverick’s Inter-Generational ‘Could you qualify to go back to High School’ Quiz?

 
 
  1. Isosceles

  2. Tropic of Capricorn

  3. Semibreve

  4. Alkali Metals

  5. King Dingane ka Senzangakhona Zulu

  6. Blastocyst

  7. 200% within a year

  8. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  9. Amperes

 
 

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9 letter word

heartsick

8 letter word

chariest

7 letter words

achiest; aitches; archest; cashier; chaster; cithers; hackers; hastier; raciest; rackets; restack; richest; rickets; shakier; stacker; stearic; sticker; tackers; tackier; thicker; tickers

6 letter words

achier; arches; ashier; cahier; carets; caries; cartes; casket; caster; caters; chaise; chaser; chaste; cheats; cither; crakes; crates; creaks; earths; eschar; ethics; haceks; hacker; hackie; haters; hearts; hikers; itches; kaiser; kasher; racket; reacts; recast; riches; sachet; sacker; satire; scathe; screak; search; shaker; shriek; shrike; sicker; skater; sketch; steric; strake; streak; striae; strike; taches; tacker; takers; theirs; thrice; ticker; traces; trikes

5 letter words

aches; acres; arise; asker; aster; cakes; cares; caret; carse; carte; caste; cater; ceria; certs; cesta; chare; chase; cheat; chert; chest; cites; crake; crate; creak; crest; cries; earth; ethic; hacek; hakes; hares; haste; hater; hates; hears; heart; heats; heirs; heist; hikerl hikes; hires; irate; ketch; kites; races; raise; rakes; rates; rathe; reach; react; recta; recti; resat; resit; retch; rheas; rices; rites; saker; scare; serai; shake; share; shear; sheik; shier; shire; skate; skier; skite; stake; stare; steak; tache; taker; takes; tares; teach; teaks; tears; techs; theca; their; tiers; tikes; tires; trace; treks; trice; tries; trike

4 letter words

aces; ache; acre; ares; arse; cake; care; case; cate; cire; cite; each; ears; east; eats; echt; eras; erst; etas; etch; hake; hare; hate; hear; heat; heck; heir; hers; hest; hies; hike; hire; ices; keas; kier; kite; race; rake; rase; rate; reck; reis; resh; rest; rets; rhea; rice; rise; rite; sake; sate; sear; seat; sech; sect; sera; sike; sire; site; tace; take; tare; teak; tear; teas; tier; ties; tike; tire; trek; tres

 
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Daily Maverick’s ‘Check how well you know Jacob Zuma Quiz

 
 
  1. Nkandla in Kwa Zulu Natal

  2. 6 (six)

  3. Great Dane Currently, as far as we know, Zuma is left with only two spouses, First First Lady, Gertrude Sizakele Khumalo-Zuma, or MaKhumalo, and Bongi Ngema-Zuma, whom he married in 2012.

  4. Gedleyihlekisa – One who smiles while causing you harm

  5. 1959

  6. He was arrested for conspiring to overthrow apartheid and spent these ten years on Robben Island.

  7. Mashini Wam (Bring me my machine gun).

  8. The judge in the Shabir Shaik corruption case found that there was a generally corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma, who was subsequently charged with two counts of corruption.

  9. Julius Malema

  10. His son Duduzane Zuma

 
 

 

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9 letter word

acquittal

7 letter words

aquatic; cattail; tactual

6 letter words

acquit; actual

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Altaic; Attica; Attila

5 letter words

atilt; attic; quilt; tacit; tical

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Altai; Talca; Utica

4 letter words

alit; cult; lati; quit; tact; tail; tala; talc; tali; taut; tilt

 
 

Maverick Intergenerational Family Pop Quiz

  1. Fred Astaire

  2. Spike Lee

  3. Great Dane

  4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  5. Ironman

  6. Rami Malek

  7. Brenda Fassie

  8. Halle Berry

  9. Nickelodeon

  10. Clive Scott

 
 

 

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9 letter words

publisher; republish

8 letter word

plushier

7 letter words

blueish; blusher; bushier; plusher; publish; pushier

7 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Belushi; Bushire

6 letter words

bluish; bruise; buries; bushel; busier; hubris; lisper; lusher; perils; perish; pileus; pliers; pusher; relish; reship; rubies; superb; uprise

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Elbrus; Epirus; Perlis

5 letter words

biers; birls; blips; blues; blurs; blush; brush; buhls; burls; burps; burse; heirs;  helps; herbs; hires; hurls; ileus; lubes; lures; peris; piers; piles; plebs; plies; plush; pries; prise; pubes; pubis; pules; pulse; purls; purse; rebus; riels; riles; rubes; rules; shier; shire; shlep; shrub; sirup; slurp; spiel; spier; spile; spire; sprue; super; usher sprit; stoop; strip; strop; tipis; topic; topis; trips; troop

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Bries; Eblis; Lepus; Presb; Prius; Sheri; Siple

4 letter words

bise; bris; burs; bush; hers; hies; hips; hubs; hues; isle; leis; lies; lips; lisp; lues; lush; phis; pies; pish; plus; pubs; puls; push; reis; reps; resh; ribs; rips; rise; rubs; rues; ruse; rush; ship; shul; sire; slip; slub; slue; slur; spue; spur; suer; sure; user

 
 

Quick Covid-19 Quiz

 
  1. Wuhan, China

  2. It’s a term for Coronavirus Disease 2019, the year it was first identified.

  3. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 120 COVID-19 vaccines have been proposed around the world

  4. Professor Salim Abdul Karim

  5. Yes 4000 South Africans have been reinfected by the new strain of the virus

  6. No COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized for children under 16. At least one trial including participants between age 12 and 18 with their parents’ permission is in progress. But it may be late 2021 or even 2022 before there is enough evidence on the timing, safety, effectiveness and practical aspects of vaccinating children for the coronavirus, especially children under age 12.

  7. Israel is leading the world in terms of its vaccination rate, with nearly 20 people in every hundred having received a dose.

  8. 339 health-care workers died in hospital.

  9. Definitely not. Precautions like wearing masks and physical distancing will continue to be necessary until the majority of people worldwide have been vaccinated. It is also possible to be reinfected by the coronavirus after being infected the first time.

  10. NO. This was fake news spread on FaceBook. In September 2020 Reuters Fact Checking reported that worldwide, the World Health Organisation estimates between 290,000 and 650,000 people die of seasonal influenza each year (tinyurl.com/umr22lm). The overall worldwide death toll for COVID-19 stood at just below 1 million in September 2020. Four months later in January 2020, it is now well over 2 million (coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html).

 

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9 letter word

isotropic

8 letter words

isotopic; porticos

7 letter words

portico; tropics

7 letter word (may be proper nouns)

Scorpio

6 letter words

octopi; optics; picots; prosit; script; scroop; spirit; topics; tripos; troops; tropic

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Crispi; Pictor; Poirot; Scipio

5 letter words

coops; corps; crisp; crops; optic; picot; ports; posit; scoop; scrip; sopor; spirt; spoor; sport; sprit; stoop; strip; strop; tipis; topic; topis; trips; troop

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Cipro; Copts; Porto; Spiro

4 letter words

coop; cops; crop; oops; opts; pics; piso; pits; poco; poor; poos; port; post; pots; pros; rips; scop; spic; spit; spot; stop; tipi;tips; topi; tops; trip

 
 

10 Good Riddance to Donald Trump Quiz Questions

 
  1. Marla Maples

  2. Billy Bush

  3. Six (6)

  4. Make American Great Again

  5. North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un

  6. TRUE

  7. Barack Obama

  8. Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232

  9. It said it did so due to the risk of further incitement of violence such as the storming of Capitol Hill, caused by Trump’s refusal to accept his electoral defeat.

  10. “You’re fired”

 

 

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9 letter word

sdyspeptic

7 letter words

sdepicts; peptics

6 letter words

edicts; septic; sipped; sippet; spiced; spited

5 letter words

cedis; cites; deist; dices; diets; ditsy; edits; epics; pesty; pipes; piste; sited; spice; spicy; spied; spite; stipe; tides; tipsy; types; yetis

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Pepsi; Pepys

4 letter words

cist; cyst; dies; dips; disc; dits; dyes; espy; ices; ides; pecs; peps; pest; pets; pics; pies; pips; pits; psid; sect; sept; side; site; spec; sped; spic; spit; step; stye; syce; teds; tics; ties; tips; yeps; yest; yids; yips

 
 

Maverick quiz party

Team 1

  1. Millennium bug

  2. (Fulgencio) Batista

  3. Year of the Ox

  4. Czechoslovakia

  5. Robert Burns

Team 2

  1. Last

  2. Rosh Hashanah

  3. Brunei

  4. A lump of coal

  5. Sarah Jessica Parker

 

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Sudoku (Medium)

 

Sudoku (Hard)

 

 

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9 letter word

ventilate

7 letter words

entitle; lineate; naivete; veinlet; ventail

7 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Valenti; Venetia

6 letter words

alevin; alvine; entail; lateen; latent; latten; leaven; levant; native; nettle; talent; telnet; valine; venial

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Aileen; Elaine; Levine; Nettie; Venite

5 letter words

alien; aline; anele; anile; anvil; eaten; enate; event; inlet; levin; liven; naevi; naive; navel; nival; taint; tenet; tinea; titan; venae; venal

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Alvin; Elena; Elvin; Evian; Ilene; Intel; Latin; Leven; Nevil; Nivea; Taine; Vilna

4 letter words

anil; ante; anti; elan; etna; even; lain; lane; lean; lent; lien; line; lint; nail; nave; neat; nevi; nite; tain; teen; tent; tine; tint; vain; vane; vein; vena; vent; vina; vine

Maverick quiz party

Team 1 

Music

  1. Adam Duritz

  2. Aretha Franklin

  3. Bass voice

  4. The Beatles

  5. Los Del Rio

Sport

  1. 1986

  2. Sumo Wrestling

  3. 80 minutes

  4. Greece

  5. Two players

General

  1. Ganges

  2. Venezuela

  3. Cain 

  4. July and August

  5. 1997

Team 2

Music

  1. White Christmas

  2. Fenty

  3. Five lines

  4. Ennio Morricone

  5. New York

Sport

  1. Only one

  2. Five meters

  3. Renault

  4. Lance Armstrong

  5. Azteca Stadium in Mexico city

General

  1. 1998

  2. Monster

  3. Oliver Tambo

  4. Tito

  5. Antonio Banderas

 

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Just cruising crossword 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Soduku (Medium)

 

Soduku (Hard)

 

Word Wizard- Target 1

 

9 letter word

lifeguard

8 letter words

argufied, dirgeful

7 letter words

direful,  failure, figured, fragile, gaudier, guilder

6 letter words

afield, agiler, argued, audile, derail, earful, failed, fardel, ferial, ferula, feudal, figure, flared, fridge, furled, gilder, girdle, glared, glider, gluier, guider, ireful, lauder, ligure, railed, redial, regild, relaid, rifled, uglier

5 letter words

adieu, afire, agile, aider, ailed,  aired, alder, argue, ariel, auger, dirge, fader, fadge, fared, felid, feral, feria, feuar, fidge, field, filed, filer, fired, flare, flied, flier, fried, fudge, gelid, glade, glare, glide, glued, grade, gride, grief, gruel, guide, guile, ideal, idler, irade, lager, large, lifer, liger, luged, lured, raged, regal, ridge, rifle, riled, ruled, urged

4 letter words

aged, ague, aide, dale, dare, deaf, deal, dear, deil, deli, dire, dreg, duel, earl, egad, fade, fare, feal, fear, feud, file, fire, flea, fled, flue, frae, fuel, gale, gear, geld, glue, idea, idle, ilea, lade, lead, leaf, lied, lief, lieu, life, lire, luge, lure, rage, rale, read, real, ride, riel, rife, rile, rude, rued, rule, urea, urge

 

 

Word Wizard – Target 2

 

 

9 letter words

genitival, vigilante

8 letter words

evaleting, vigilant

7 letter words

atingle, elating, gelatin,, genital, intagli, leaving, lignite, tailing, veiling, ventail, vintage

7 letter word (that may be proper nouns)

valenti

6 letter words

aiglet, ailing, alevin, alvine, eating, entail, genial, glaive, ignite, ingate, invite, laving, ligate, linage, living, native, nilgai, tieing, tiling, tingle, valine, venial

6 letter word (that may be proper nouns)

ealing

5 letter words

agile, algin, alien, align, aline, alive, anile, anvil, genii, giant, given, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, levin, ligan, liven, naevi, naive, nival, tinea, tinge, vigil, vitae, vital

5 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

alvin, angie, alvia, elvin, evian, Evita, Gavin, intel, latin, levit, livia, nevil, nigel, nivea, taine, vilna

4 letter words

alit, anil, anti, evil, gain, gait, gilt, gite, give, glia, ilea, ilia, inti, lain, lati, lien, line, lint, lite, live, nail, nevi, nite, tail, tain, tali, tile, tine, ting, vagi, vail, vain, veil, vein, vial, vile, vina, vine, vita

 

Maverick quiz party

Team 1

  1. Darkness

  2. Socrates

  3. Scotland

  4. Osbourne

  5. TRUE

Team 2

  1. Teenagers

  2. Martin Heidegger

  3. Switzerland

  4. Red Hot Chilli Peppers

  5. TRUE

 

 

 

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9 letter word

bondstone

9 letter word

bonnets, boosted, tendons

9 letter word

bonnet, booted, nodose, sonnet, stoned, tendon, tennos, tenons, tonnes

9 letter word

Benson, Benton, Bootes, Boston, Denton, Donets, Dotson, Ostend

9 letter word

 
besot, bodes, bonds, boned, bones, bonne, booed, boons, boost, boots, boson,donne,dotes, nodes, nones, nonet, noons, noose, nosed, noted, notes, oboes, odeon, onset, snood, snoot, sonde, steno, stone, stood, tenno, tenon, toned, tones, tonne

9 letter word

Boone, Edson, Odets, Seton

9 letter word

bode, bods, bond, bone, boon, boos, boot, bots, dobs, does, done, dons, dose, dost, dote, dots, ebon, eons, neon, nobs, node,nods,noes,none, noon,nose, note, oboe, odes, ones, onto, snob, snot, sone, soon, soot, stob, toed, toes, tone, tons

 

Maverick quiz party

Team 1

  1. Trees

  2. Jeffrey Dahmer

  3. Australia

  4. Ford

  5. True

Team 2

  1. Rain

  2. Pablo Escobar

  3. Italy

  4. Tesla

  5. True

 

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9 letter word

Minimises

8 letter word

Minimise

7 letter word

Mimesis

6 letter words

niseis; seisin

5 letter words

imine; issei; miens; mimes; mines; nisei; seism; semis; sines

4 letter words

mems; mess; mien; mime; mine; mise; ness; semi; sens; sine

 

Sudoku (Ludicrous)

 

Sudoku (Next level)

 
 

Maverick quiz party

Team 1

  1. Fruit Flies

  2. Chicken

  3. Yellow Submarine

  4. The touch screen

  5. Roger Federer

Team 2

  1. Dragonfly

  2. Thunder and lightning

  3. Revolution

  4. The world wide web

  5. Lance Armstrong

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9 letter word

desperate

8 letter words

departee; pederast; pestered; predates; repeated; reseated

7 letter words

dearest; deepest; departs; estrade; petards; petered; predate; repeats; sedater; steeped; steeper; steered; tapered

6 letter words

adepts; aretes; daters; depart; desert; deters; eaters; parted; pasted; pedate; peseta; pester; petard; peters; prated; prates; preset; repast; repeat; reseat; rested; seated; sedate; stared; tapers; teared; teased; teaser; tepees; trades; trapes; tread

6 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Easter;Teresa

5 letter words

adept; apter; arete; aster; darts; dater; dates; deter; eater; ester; parts; paste; pates; peart; peter; prate; prats; rated; rates; reest; resat; reset; sated; septa; setae; spate; sprat; stare; stead; steed; steep; steer; strap; stree; strep; taped; taper; tapes; tared; tares; tarps; tears; tease; tepee; terse; trade; traps; tread; treed; trees

5 letter word (that may be proper nouns)

Petra

4 letter words

arts; dart; date; drat;  east; eats; erst; etas; part; past; pate; pats; peat; pert; pest; pets; prat; rapt; rate; rats; rest; rete; rets; sate; seat; sept; spat; star; step; tads; taed; tape; taps; tare; tarp; tars; tear; teas; teds; teed; tees; trad; trap; tree; tres; tsar

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Maverick quiz party

Team 1

  1. Vilakazi Street, Soweto, where both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu lived

  2.  Octopus

  3. Tibet

  4. Otters

  5. Marilyn Monroe

Team 2

  1. Victoria Rd in Clifton and Bantry Bay, Cape Town

  2. The Turtle

  3. Iceland

  4. Knees

  5. Mae West

 

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9 letter word

effluents

8 letter word

effluent

7 letter word

unsteel

6 letter words

Elutes; fleets; fluent; flutes; funest; nestle; unfelt

5 letter words

Elute; felts; fetes; fetus; fleet; flute; lefts; lutes; sente; sleet; steel; stuff; teens; tense; tunes; unset

4 letter words

Efts; feet; felt; fest;fete; leet; left; lent; lest; lets; lust; lute; nest; nets; nuts; sent; slut; stun; suet; teen; tees; tens; tuff; tune; tuns

 

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Maverick quiz party

Team 1

  1. Puffadder

  2. Ndebele

  3. Australia

  4. The navel

  5. Britney Spears

Team 2

  1. The Black Mamba

  2.  Mphahlele

  3. France

  4. Clowns

  5. Louis Armstrong

 

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9 letter word

comradely

8 letter word

claymore

7 letter word

caloyer

6 letter words

cloyed; comedy; comely; creamy; dearly; dreamy; melody

5 letter words

clary; coaly; coley; coyer; cymae; cymar; deary; decay; decoy; decry; delay; early; lardy; layer; loamy; madly; marly; mayor; mealy; mercy; moray; ready; redly; relay; royal; yodel; yodle

4 letter words

acyl; aery; amyl; army; aryl; clay; cloy; coly; cyma; demy; dory; dray; dyer; eyra; lacy; lady; lyre; mayo; moly; odyl; oldy; oyer; racy; rely; yard; yare; year; yeld; ylem; yore

 

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