Compound Words #3

Should be accepted.

But not compared to a tape-worm that can be 50 feet long in humans.

you obviously don't know what ringworm is.

What about roundworm? Don't know if it lives in the intestine though.

I won't accept any of them, yuck

I am glad they distinguish the earth worm from the non-earth type worm. The two are almost indistinguishable.

An online dictionary definition is a military commander who has seized control of a region in a country, which is fairly similar but I agree it is hard to guess.

I kept thinking bystander. There are other answers to this question.

Surely an eye witness is someone who witnesses an eye? I've never seen eyewitness as two separate words before

Why not, after 4+ years on here, think about acutally contributing a quiz on here yourself? Just a thought. Cheers QM, great quiz, thanks

Same here

There is a difference. An eyewitness actually saw what happened. A witness doesn’t have to be an eyewitness but can be anyone who testifies in court, such as an expert witness, someone who knew the accused, someone who heard a noise, etc.

I once took a criminology course, and in the middle of class, someone came running from the back into the classroom, grabbed something from the floor next to a student on the front row, and ran out. That student ran out, chasing the first student. We were all momentarily shocked, but the teacher hurriedly told us not to worry, he had staged the event. He then passed out a sheet with questions such as, was the perpetrator male or female, what were they wearing, what color was their hair, what did they take, etc. and then the same for the student. He collected the papers and started tallying the answers on the board and called the two back in. It was amazing how many varied and wrong answers we gave. No one got everything correct. The exercise was to show us that eyewitness accounts aren’t always dependable. When something happens so quickly and unexpectedly, we often think we see things that we don’t.