A Conversation for The H2IQ Quiz - Be The First Among Equals

Friday 22-November-2002 Unofficial question

Post 1

Gnomon - time to move on

Today's question to keep you on your toes:

What is the animal many people fear whose name can be got by forming an anagram of a homophone of an antonym of a homophone of an anagram of the word FEAR?


Friday 22-November-2002 Unofficial question

Post 2

Whisky

Wolf


Friday 22-November-2002 Unofficial question

Post 3

Whisky

Explanation

FEAR - Anagram - FARE
FARE - Homophone - FAIR
FAIR - Antonym - FOUL
FOUL - Homphone - FOWL
FOWL - Anagram - WOLF

Nice one Gnomon


Friday 22-November-2002 Unofficial question

Post 4

You can call me TC

That was very misleading. I was working on the assumption that the opposite of Fair was Dark.


Friday 22-November-2002 Unofficial question

Post 5

Princess Bride

Wow. That made my head hurt just reading the question. Crazy.


Friday 22-November-2002 Unofficial question

Post 6

Gnomon - time to move on

Well done Whisky. You passed the difficult test of figuring out the right antonym of FAIR.

I'm not going to post any more questions, so you can all take the weekend off! Greebo should be back on Monday.


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