Great example of a general knowledge quiz!! The wide range of topics made it interesting and the short time frame resulted in a situation where if you knew the answer you could get it in time but if you were struggling you were going to miss it. Good challenge!
Those three words are indeed palindromes (which I figured out), but they are also nouns. If you want palindrome to be the only acceptable answer, then you should re-word the question as noun is an acceptable for the way it's currently written.
Um... they're also all English words? Can we accept that, too? They're also spoken at times. They are also all real words! Can we accept just "real" because I feel that it's an acceptable answer!
Ebruck02: in all my years on this site, that is the most pathetic comment I have seen. Do people punch you in the face as soon as they meet you, just to save time?
No, it is not. Pines are in the genus pinus; cedars are in the genus cedrus. They are both in the pinaceae family, but that is where the similarity ends.
A: They are both carbon-based life forms.
Some people never had SATs
They taught you not to nitpick, and reach for the most logical answer. You best try to suss out the mindset and purpose of the creators.
Some of my favorite relatives are mechanically inclined geniuses, but bomb tests.
We can add "civic" to that list of palindromes.