P Answers Quiz #1

Based on the clues, guess these random things that start with the letter P.

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First submitted	January 21, 2013
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Clue	Answer
Capital of France	Paris
Former name of Iran	Persia
Ancient Roman city buried in ash	Pompeii
Person who sues a defendant	Plaintiff
Zodiac sign whose symbol is two fish	Pisces
Winged horse of Greek mythology	Pegasus
Low value chess piece	Pawn
Country on the Iberian Peninsula	Portugal
British word for gasoline	Petrol
Light green nut	Pistachio
Capital of Western Australia	Perth
Jack Sparrow or Blackbeard, for example	Pirate

Clue	Answer
Italian high fashion brand	Prada
Leader of the Catholic church	Pope
Native American who rescued John Smith	Pocahontas
Picasso's first name	Pablo
Pikachu or Bulbasaur, for example	Pokémon
Former country ruled by Frederick the Great	Prussia
Primary ethnic group of Afghanistan	Pashtun
Region of southern Argentina and Chile	Patagonia
Musical opposite of forte	Piano
Canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific	Panama
River that flows through Washington D.C.	Potomac
Prefix that precedes zoic, lithic, botany, and ntology	Paleo

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Level 59

Aug 26, 2013

Damn it! I read "low value chess piece" as "low value cheese piece"

Level 68

Aug 26, 2013

that would get a resounding LIKE

Level 83

Aug 26, 2013

Glad to know I'm in good company on that one.

Level 32

Dec 12, 2013

American cheese is probably the lowest value cheese, unless you are eating a grilled cheese or Five Guys burger, which are it's only acceptable uses

Level 76

Oct 14, 2014

Cheez Whiz!

Level 37

Dec 13, 2017

You're so right!! - For a country that gets so many things right, its cheese really sinks!

Level 66

Oct 16, 2018

Velveta

Level 38

Aug 17, 2015

oh thank goodness, me too, had a quick think of chess pieces beginning with P lol

Level 84

Mar 21, 2017

Hilarious! I love the unfiltered honesty of many of the participants on here. Some of the things our brains come up with are a riot. None of us are immune.

Level 35

Feb 22, 2018

me too, took me a while to read it right lol

Level 59

Apr 18, 2018

You are not alone. I did as well. Sigh

Level 59

Apr 18, 2018

Dairy Lea

Level 72

May 21, 2021

Parmesan?

Level 53

Sep 7, 2013

Could you please accept pampas along with patagonia i got confused

Level 69

Nov 2, 2013

For some odd reason, all I could think of was pecan, even though that's wrong.

Level 85

Mar 2, 2014

Pisces' symbol is not a fish but TWO fishes ;).

Level 55

Apr 4, 2014

And the plural of Fish is Fish...

Level 57

May 21, 2021

Multiple fish of different varieties are 'fishes', while multiple fish of the same kind are 'fish'.

Level 85

Sep 9, 2015

I'm not an english-speaker, but I think "fishes" is an acceptable form. And the question still reads "a fish", not "two fish".

Level 67

Feb 14, 2017

One fish two fish red fish blue fish...

Level 81

Dec 13, 2017

I agree spices are important, but not enough to change the grammatical forms of fish :P

Level 85

Dec 14, 2017

Ok, he meant species. I was not aware of that subtlety (so one trout and one cod are two fishes :p).

Level ∞

Dec 13, 2017

The clue has been fixed

Level 64

Oct 5, 2014

Got stuck on Italian high fashion brand for the longest time because I misread "brand" as "bread."

Level 18

Jan 5, 2015

i did too and I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW. i also misread chess for cheese, but i figure that out eventually. i guess I'm hungry..........

Level 74

Mar 21, 2022

I mean, your username definitely seems relevant here.

Level 67

Feb 14, 2017

Man, you guys need to get some glasses!

Level 79

Oct 16, 2018

Or stop taking quizzes on an empty stomach?

Level 45

Sep 9, 2015

Darn, I wrote Pashtu and even tried Pashtus, but not Pashtun.

Level 76

Sep 9, 2015

I even tried Pashti but still couldn't come up with the right ending.

Level 76

Dec 2, 2016

This time I tried Pashtu. Getting ever closer.

Level 76

Oct 16, 2018

Got it! Yay! Third time's charm.

Level 51

Sep 9, 2015

Yeah, me too. So close....

Level 67

Feb 14, 2017

I tried every form of Pashto, Pashtu, Pashti, Pushtan... I could think of, sigh.

Level 67

Jan 14, 2021

I tried pashta, but maybe I'm just as hungry as the bread and cheese people.

Level 75

Sep 9, 2015

The Australian state is Western Australia. "West Australia" is as weird to look at as "Western Virginia" would be.

Level 38

Sep 9, 2015

Guessing you're a fellow Aussie? Looked so weird without the 'ern' on the end!

Level ∞

Dec 13, 2017

Fixed

Level 57

Oct 16, 2018

Yeah, well, to all of us outsiders it's confusing as hell, because you have "Western Australia," "Northern Territory".....and "South Australia"

Level 45

Sep 9, 2015

I don't like this quiz revamp. I've entered the correct answer for many of these, but nothing is actually filling in.

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Level 51

Sep 9, 2015

Worked fine for me. Did you hit the "Start Quiz" button first?

Level 66

Jun 27, 2019

and put the cursor in the box..That often happens to me. Halfway the quiz using the scroll bar, then typing several answers, look up and see the box still empty. Multiple times on a quiz, often.

Level 64

Sep 11, 2015

How about "petitioner" and "prosecutor" for a person who sues a defendant?

Level 53

Sep 16, 2015

a little leeway on the spelling of potomac please

Level 78

Dec 13, 2017

How else would you like to spell that?

Level 57

Oct 16, 2018

Well, as a native Virginian I can tell you it used to be spelled "Potomack" and "Potowmack" on old colonial-era maps. The Indians who named it didn't really have much of a writing system, so the English spelled it different ways at different times, based on what the word sounded like to them.

Level 73

Mar 20, 2022

I put Potemac (not accepted) and Potamac (accepted).

Level 65

Jan 30, 2016

I agree with Thorvald for "prosecutor", but not "petitioner".

Level 78

Dec 13, 2017

Prosecutor represents the state and in trials with a prosecutor there's no defendant. Plaintiff is the person in a civil case who is sueing the defendant. So no.

Level 37

May 31, 2018

WHAT DO YOU mean that in trials with a prosecutor, there is no defendant? Who, then, is the prosecutor prosecuting? I believe you mean that in a trial where there is a prosecutor, the plaintiff is the State, not an individual.

Level 57

Oct 16, 2018

Yeah, I think you mean there's no plaintiff. Civil and criminal cases both have defendants. In civil cases they're being sued by a plaintiff; in criminal cases they're being tried by the prosecution.

Level 78

Dec 13, 2017

How about accepting "pistacchio" as well? I really thought it had 2 cs and in some languages it does.

Level ∞

Dec 14, 2017

Okay

Level 80

Dec 14, 2017

Any chance you might accept "Palaeo" as an alternative spelling?

Level ∞

Dec 14, 2017

Sure

Level 66

Jan 27, 2018

It took me about 10 tries to spell Pisces correctly (Pieces? Pices? Peices? Piesces? Pises? Pieses? etc)

Level 83

Apr 18, 2018

May have read "low value cheese piece" and drawn a blank. Chess makes much more sense.

Level 66

Jun 27, 2019

yep I am among the many that also read cheese, only saw chess the 3rd time. I guess the word low and value did that ( low fat for instance)

Level 72

Oct 16, 2018

Captain Jack Sparrow, thank you very much!

Level 56

Oct 16, 2018

Where's the rum gone...?

Level 28

Oct 18, 2018

I've got a jar of dirt!

Level 60

May 4, 2019

Thanks to Ross Geller I will never forget the answer to the last question :)

Level 66

Jun 27, 2019

Only didnt get prada, pashtun and patomac

Level 48

Sep 10, 2019

Great quiz - but you have made one error.

Petrol is the British word for petrol - not for gasoline.

Gasoline is the American word for petrol

Level 80

Dec 3, 2021

On behalf of Brits everywhere, please stop making us look like pillocks. Thank you.

Level 61

Sep 10, 2019

Level 61

Feb 25, 2020

20.

Level 50

Sep 10, 2019

I thought I was going crazy after "prosecutor" didn't work!

Level 74

Feb 21, 2020

I got the last question, but I have never heard of the word "Paleobotany"

Level 73

Jan 24, 2021

It's very interesting - e.g. apparently Charles Darwin could never explain how flowering plants came about by evolution, and was always troubled by it. We still don't know for sure (as far as I know, I'm not a paleobotanist :) since they seem to have come about suddenly and spread everywhere very quickly, which are not characteristics of evolution. Article about it recently on the BBC website:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55769269

Level 73

May 6, 2021

I agree plaintiff is the correct answer but maybe petitioner should be accepted (prosecutor is wrong). From the "Petitioner" Wikipedia article: "The petitioner may seek a legal remedy if the state or another private person has acted unlawfully. In this case, the petitioner, often called a plaintiff, will submit a plea to a court to resolve the dispute."

Level 66

Dec 21, 2021

Such a person is called a pursuer in Scotland - another 'p' answer! (But to be fair, the 'victim' is the defender, not defendant.)

Level 61

Sep 7, 2022

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