Time for another of our semi-regular Friday quizzes... and this one's all about fear.
Here are ten real life phobias... but if you've got them, what are you afraid of?
1. What is triskaidekaphobia?
A) Fear of tricycles
B) Fear of the number 13
C) Fear of kaleidoscopes
2. What is arachibutyrophobia?
A) Fear of spiders’ webs.
B) Fear of people called Rachel.
C) Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
3. Adele has “laridophobia”. What is she afraid of?
A) Seagulls.
B) Pineapples.
C) Tripping over in the street.
4. What is nomophobia?
A) Fear of being without your mobile phone.
B) Fear of being called by the wrong name.
C) Fear of mops.
5. What is pogonophobia?
A) Fear of pogo sticks.
B) Fear of the internet.
C) Fear of beards.
6. Ozzy Osborne had “musophobia”. What was he afraid of?
A) Music critics.
B) Motorways.
C) Rats.
7. What is mortuusequusphobia?
A) The fear of queues.
B) The fear of daffodils.
C) The fear of tomato ketchup.
8. What is kakorrhaphiophobia?
The fear of lightning.
The fear of failure.
The fear of getting out of the wrong side of the bed.
9. Kylie Minogue has “kremastraphobia”. What is she afraid of?
A) Elevators.
B) Dizziness.
C) Coathangers.
10. What is anatidaephobia?
A) The fear of pipes.
B) The fear of curtains blowing in the wind.
C) The fear that a duck is watching you.
The only one I know is nomophobia, the fear of being without a mobile phone. And I think I once read that there’s supposed to be a fear of the number 13.
ReplyDeleteThere is indeed, Walter... and it's one of the above.
DeleteHappy to have a go, mostly very uneducated guesses! (Though I think the Latin name for gulls is like the phobia name in 3)
ReplyDelete1 A
2 A
3 A
4 I would have said B but then I saw Walter's answer
5 C
6 A...surely not but hey!
7 A
8 B
9 B
10 A
You have taken the trouble to pose the questions, it would be rude not to have a go: 1A, 2A, 3A, 4B, 5C, 6C, 7C, 8B, 9B and 10A
ReplyDeleteTo C and George...
ReplyDelete1. Wrong
2. Wrong
3. Correct
4. Walter was correct.
5. Correct
6. George is correct
7. George is correct
8. Correct
9. Wrong
10. Wrong
Ok here goes:
ReplyDelete1. B
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. B
9. A
10.C
From peeking at the above I can see I have some of them right but probably easiest if you can let me know how many out of 10.
1. Correct
Delete2. See above
3. Correct
4. See above
5. See above
6. See above
7. See above
8. See above
9. Wrong
10. Correct!!!