h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

While I struggle to remember what went 'pocketa-pocketa' in Recumbentman's latest quiz, here's a short word quiz to keep you amused:

1. Which common hyphenated 10-letter English word meaning “practical” repeats its first two letters (in positions 3 and 4), and then repeats letters 5-7 (in positions 8-10)?

2. What common 8-letter word contains 5 instances of the same letter?

3. Which US city contains two letter Qs in its name?

4. Which musical instrument contains the letters X, Z and Q?

5. Which word can lose its validity by inserting the letters “ordinary ren”?


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Icy

3: Albuquerque

5 - are the letters inserted in that order or are they re-arranged?

3. Albuquerque is correct.

I'll post hints after a judicious period of time

4. Is it some sort of accordion or squeeze-box? Are little keys lettered?


OOH!

5. Extradition

Both correct!

Mammagramm has too many letters or I'd have that one too.

Likewise Mississippis

1. no-nonsense

no-nonsense has only four of the same letter, namely n.

1. no-nonsense is correct, of course.

You're thinking of Q2, paulh. Nobody's spotted that one yet.

Different clue.

1. Which common hyphenated 10-letter English word meaning “practical” repeats its first two letters (in positions 3 and 4), and then repeats letters 5-7 (in positions 8-10)?

bananarama has five A's, but has ten letters in all.

Banana hammock doesn't fit.

anadama comes closer than anything else I can think of.

esteemed has the right total number of letters, and four of the five needed special letters.

Can you give us a clue - is the repeated letter a vowel or a consonant?

It's a consonant.