20 February 2021

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

LUDICROUSLY DIFFICULT SUDOKU

CHALLENGING SUDOKU

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

cretinoid; direction

8 Letter Word

centroid; doctrine; indicter; indictor; indirect

7 Letter Word

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

7 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Citroen

6 Letter Word

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

6 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Corine; Enrico; Nordic; Ticino

5 Letter Word

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 Word (may be proper nouns)

Creon; Doric; Iceni; Indic

4 Letter Word

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 Word (may be proper nouns)

Ceto; Eric; Rico

13 February 2021

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. Onomatopoeia
7. Blastocyst
8. 200% within a year
9. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
10. Amperes

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

LUDICROUSLY DIFFICULT SUDOKU

CHALLENGING SUDOKU

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

heartsick

8 Letter Word

chariest

7 Letter Word

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

6 Letter Word

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 Word

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 Word

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

06 February 2021

DAILY MAVERICK’S CHECK HOW WELL YOU KNOW JACOB ZUMA QUIZ

1. Nkandla in Kwa Zulu Natal
2. 6 (six)
3. 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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

LUDICROUSLY DIFFICULT SUDOKU

CHALLENGING SUDOKU

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

acquittal

7 Letter Word

aquatic; cattail; tactual

6 Letter Word

acquit; actual

6 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Altaic; Attica; Attila

5 Letter Word

atilt; attic; quilt; tacit; tical

5 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Altai; Talca; Utica

4 Letter Word

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

30 January 2021

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

LUDICROUSLY DIFFICULT SUDOKU

CHALLENGING SUDOKU

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

publisher; republish

8 Letter Word

plushier

7 Letter Word

blueish; blusher; bushier; plusher; publish; pushier

7 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Belushi; Bushire

6 Letter Word

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

6 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Elbrus; Epirus; Perlis

5 Letter Word

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

5 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

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

4 Letter Word

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

23 January 2021

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 tiome.
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 below1 million in September 2020. Four months later in January 2020, it is now well over 2 million(coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html).

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

LUDICROUSLY DIFFICULT SUDOKU

CHALLENGING SUDOKU

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

isotropic

8 Letter Word

isotopic; porticos

7 Letter Word

portico; tropics

7 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Scorpio

6 Letter Word

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

6 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Crispi; Pictor; Poirot; Scipio

5 Letter Word

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 Word (may be proper nouns)

Cipro; Copts; Porto; Spiro

4 Letter Word

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

16 January 2021

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”

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S CATCHA  CUPPA CRYPTIC XWORDS

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

LUDICROUSLY DIFFICULT SUDOKU

CHALLENGING SUDOKU

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

dyspeptic

7 Letter Word

depicts; peptics

6 Letter Word

edicts; septic; sipped; sippet; spiced; spited

5 Letter Word

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

5 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Pepsi; Pepys

4 Letter Word

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

9 January 2021

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORDS

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

SUDOKU (Medium)

SUDOKU (Hard)

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

ventilate

7 Letter Word

entitle; lineate; naivete; veinlet; ventail

7 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Valenti; Venetia

6 Letter Word

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

6 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

Aileen; Elaine; Levine; Nettie; Venite

5 Letter Word

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

5 Letter Word (may be proper nouns)

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

4 Letter Word

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

19 December 2020 – 8 January 2021

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Remember when our fellow South African, blinded himself with his face mask during one of our many family meetings? Say goodbye to 2020 by spotting ten differences between these two pics of Cyril doing some mad macarena moves with his mask.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

This being our last edition of one hell of a year, here is Santa (responsibly wearing a mask, the right way round, unlike our poor old President) to bring you some good old festive cheer. Spot ten differences between these pics of Ho Ho Ho.

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORDS

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

SUDOKU (Medium)

SUDOKU (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

valeting, vigilant

7 Letter Words

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

7 letter words 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 words 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, Elvia, 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

12 December 2020

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

SUDOKU (NEXT LEVEL)

SUDOKU (LUDICROUS)

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

bondstone

7 Letter Words

bonnets, boosted, tendons

6 Letter Words

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

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

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

5 Letter Words

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

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Boone, Edson, Odets, Seton

4 Letter Words

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

05 December 2020

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

Minimises

8 Letter Word

Minimise

7 Letter Word

Mimesis

6 Letter Word

niseis; seisin

5 Letter Word

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

4 Letter Word

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

SUDOKU (LUDICROUS)

SUDOKU (NEXT LEVEL)

28 November 2020

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

WORD WIZARD

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; treads

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 words 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

SUDOKU (LUDICROUS)

SUDOKU (NEXT LEVEL)

21 November 2020

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

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

WORD WIZARD

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

SUDOKU (LUDICROUS)

SUDOKU (NEXT LEVEL)

14 November 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1

1. Puffadder
2. Njabulo Ndebele
3. Australia
4. The navel
5. Britney Spears

TEAM 2

1. The Black Mamba
2. E’skia Mphahlele
3. France
4. Clowns
5. Louis Armstrong

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

WORD WIZARD

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

SUDOKU (LUDICROUS)

SUDOKU (NEXT LEVEL)

06 November 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1

1. Chicken pox
2. Cats
3. Poland
4. It is the fear of houses, being in a house, home surroundings and certain items in a house — be it the toaster, oven, refrigerator or dishwasher.
5. Thabo Mbeki

TEAM 2

1. Malaria
2. Bananas
3. Ski Lanka
4. Loose or detached hair, or the hair on your body
5. Hendrik Verwoerd

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

DEVLIN’S DIABOLIC CRYPTIC XWORD

JUST CRUISING CROSSWORD

WORD WIZARD

9 Letter Word

solemnity

8 Letter Word

mylonite

7 Letter Words

etymons; loments; moisten; moistly; motiles; motleys; sentimo; stonily

7 Wetter Word (that may be proper nouns):

Yeltsin

6 Letter Word

enlist; enmity; entoil; etymon; inlets; inmost; lenity; listen; loment; melton; moiety; molest; molten; monist; montes; mostly; motels; motile; motley; silent; somite; stolen; stoney; stymie; telson; timely; tinsel; tonsil

6 Letter Words (that may be proper nouns):
Liston; Milton; Solent; Tomlin

5 Letter Words

emits; inlet; inset; islet; istle; items; lento; linty; melts; metis; milts; mints; minty; misty; mites; moist; monte; motel; motes; nites; notes; omits; onset; silty; smelt; smite; smolt; smote; stein; steno; stile; stole; stone; stony; style; styli; tiles; times; tines; toile; toils; tomes; tones; yetis

5 Letter Words (that may be proper nouns):
Eliot; Elton; Elyot; Intel; Lents; Minot; Monet; Monty; Seton; Stine; Timon; Tyson

4 Letter Words

emit; eyot; into; item; lent; lest; lets; lint; list; lite; lost; loti; lots; melt; milt; mint; mist; mite; most; mote; mots; nest; nets; nite; nits; note; omit; sent; silt; site; slit; slot; smit; snit; snot; stem; stye; tens; ties; tile; time; tine; tins; tiny; toes; toil; tole; tome; toms; tone; tons; tony; toys; yest; yeti

4 letter words (that may be proper nouns):
Eton; Inst; Leto; Moet; Mont; Myst; Otis; Toni; Tyne

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31 October 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1

1. Dubai (Burj Khalifa)
2. 9
3. Museum of Modern Art, New York
4. The colour yellow
5. Trevor Noah

TEAM 2

1. 2007
2. Santa’s Little Helper
3. Supersonic
4. Fear of being without mobile phone coverage
5. Charles Darwin

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9 Letter Word

unanimous

8 Letter Word

numinous

7 Letter Words

amnions; mansion; onanism

6 Letter Words

amnion; animus; anions; nasion; numina; unions; unison; unmans

5 Letter Words

amino; amnio; anion; anons; mains; mason; minas; minus; moans; monas; muons; nouns; union; unman

4 Letter Words

anis; anon; anus; inns; ions; main; mans; maun; mina; moan; muon; nans; naos; noma; noun; nous; nuns; onus; sain; sunn; unis

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24 October 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1

1. Laughs
2. Graffiti
3. Balloons
4. Former President Thabo Mbeki
5. Climate change

TEAM 2

1. Open the fridge
2. An erection
3. The Cold
4. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
5. Fund that will tackle coronavirus relief

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9 Letter Word

whimsical

8 Letter Words

chiliasm

7 Letter Words (that may be proper nouns)

Islamic

6 Letter Words

claims

6 Letter Words (that may be proper nouns)

Ismail

5 Letter Words

calms; chasm; claim; clams; halms; mails; milch; milia; salmi; shawm; swami;  whams; whims

5 Letter Words (that may be proper nouns)

Amish; Ishim; Islam; Micah; Simla; Wilma

4 Letter Words

aims; alms; calm; cams; cham; clam; cwms; halm; hams; hims; lams; macs; mail; mash; maws; mica; mics; mils; scam; sham; shim; sima; slam; slim; swam; swim; wham; whim

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17 October 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1

1. Scrambled eggs
2. A metal
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Mercury poisoning
5. An ostrich

TEAM 1

1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. a brown seaweed or fossil plant of a group to which bladderwrack belongs.
3. Salvador Dali
4. Polonium-210
5. Salmon Rushdie

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9 Letter Word

acidifies

6 Letter Words

facies; deific; decafs

5 Letter Words

disci; defis; decaf; cased; daces; cedis; dices; aside; acies; acids; caids; ideas; cadis; cadie; faces, faced; facie; fades; cafes

4 Letter Words

aide; cise; cide; caid; cads; aces; acid; aced; cade; side; deaf; safe; said; ides; ices; feds; face; iced; fade; fads

10 October 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1

1. Smallpox
2. Pineapple
3. King’s Landing
4. Ag Please Deddy
5. Cat Scan

TEAM 2

1. TB or Tuberculosis
2. Venus Rosewater Dish
3. Winterfell
4. Weekend Special
5. Kreepy Krauly

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9 Letter Words
zooplasty

7 Letter Words
ooplast

6 Letter Words
platys; plasty; postal; astoop; saloop; zlotys; topazy; toolsy

5 Letter Words
plats; ploat; polos; ploys; lasty; patly; plotz; plots; pasty; polys; pools; lazys; pooly; pooty; palsy; plays; potsy; zloty; atopy; zooty; opals; loopy; loots; plast; topsl; salty; lotas; lotos; platy; tools; altos; typos; typal; sloat; slaty; toyos; sloop; sloot; slopy; topos; soapy; tolas; sooty; topas; solay; topaz; sozly; sotol; spalt; stoop; stopa; splay; stola; aslop; splat; spool; stool; aptly; spoot; stylo

4 Letter Words
lazy; lats; last; loop; loot; laps; lops; atop; aspy; lays; asop; apts; yoop; alts; lost; alto; loto; yaps; alop; plat; oaty; sapo; oast; toyo; salp; tosy; slap; sloo; slop; slay; oots; opts; opsy; zoos; zool; slat; slot; soya; typo; payt; pays; stap; stay; sool; topo; toys; posy; taps; stoa; spay; poot; pooa; palt; polt; pols; tola; poly; spat; toop; spaz; paty; pats; plot; pato; ploy; stop; pyal; pyas; tool; play; pyla; zaps; paly

3 Letter Words
pts; ays; zoo; zoa; aly; zat; pty; zap; toa; too; yas; alt; tlo; sty; yat; olp; spt; yot; loo; spy; sot; slt; soy; ast

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03 October 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1
1. A blessing
2. Turkmenistan
3. Zedonk
4. France
5. Scoobert Doo

TEAM 2
1. A rhumba
2. The USA. Ronald Reagan President of the USA (1981-1989) regularly consulted with an astrologer, Joan Quigley, before making decisions and scheduling big events
3. When a male lion and a female tiger mate, their cubs are called ligers. Switch the genders and you have tigons.
4. THE USA
5. Patrick Star

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9 letter word
frustrate

7 letter words
astuter; stature; truster; tufters; turrets

6 letter words
astute; frusta; statue; surfer; tauter; truest; tufter; turret; utters

5 letter words
fetus; feuar; saute; strut; surer, surra; sutra; truer; trues; trust; tufts; turfs; utter

4 letter words
furs; fuse; rues; ruse; rust; ruts; suer; suet; sura; sure; surf; taus; taut; true; tufa; tuft; turf; tuts; urea; user

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26 September 2020

Maverick quiz party

TEAM 1
It is illegal to milk someone else’s cow’
Gavin Hunt
Nomcebo Zikode
A person who talks at great length without making much sense.
Captain James Kirk

TEAM 2
1.Encyclopedia Britannica
2. Mamelodi Sundowns also known as The Brazilians
3. Max Hurrell
4. You have well-shaped buttocks.
5. Spock

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9 letter word
nostalgic

8 letter words
agnostic; antilogs; castling; coasting; coatings; locating

7 letter words
actions; agonist; antilog; casting; coating; costing; gnostic; lasting; salting; slating; stoical

6 letter words
acting; actins; action; antics; atonic; cantos; coital; costal; gaslit; giants; glints; gloats; ingots; instal; latino; sating; talons; tangos; tonics; tonsil

5 letter words
altos; angst; antic; canto; cants; clots; coast; coats; colts; gaits; giant; gilts; glint; gloat; gnats; goats; ingot, iotas; octal; saint; satin; scant; slant; stain; sting; stoic; tacos; tails; talon; tango; togas; toils; tonal; tonga; tongs; tonic

4 letter words
acts; alit; alto; anti; ants; cant; cast; cats; cist; clot; coat; colt; cost; cots; gait; gats
gilt; gist; gnat; goat; into; iota; last; lati; lats; lint; list; lost; lota; lots; nits; oats
salt; scat; silt; slat; slit; slot; snit; snot; stag; taco; tags; tail; tali; tang; tans
tics; ting; tins; toga; togs; toil; tons

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