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Question 1

What is the object used to prevent the top of a box containing food from collapsing and touching the food inside called?

Answer 1

Pizza saver

Question 2

What is the small sheath, made of plastic or metal, used on each end of a shoelace called?

Answer 2

It is called an aglet.

Question 3

What is the name of the earthy smell that accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm and dry weather?

Answer 3

It is called petrichor.

Question 4

Which 8-letter word is used for the area between the eyebrows and above the nose?

Answer 4

It is called the glabella.

Question 5

What term, Latin for ‘little moon’, is given to the crescent-shaped whitish area of the bed of a fingernail or toenail?

Answer 5

Lunula

Question 6

What 6-letter word is used for a wave-shaped toothpaste blob that sits on a toothbrush head?

Answer 6

Nurdle

Question 7

What is the other word for the infinity symbol, which gets its name from a Latin word meaning ‘decorated with ribbons’?

Answer 7

Lemniscate

Question 8

What is the little dot on an ‘i’ or a ‘j’ called?

Answer 8

Tittle