Australian Masters and State Challenge
Sydney 2009

Richard Jeremy's quiz

A traditional pastime at the Saturday dinner is the personalised puzzle fest concocted by Richard Jeremy. Here are the 2009 questions. Hoover Hover your mouse to reveal the answer.
 

ROUND 1 (total points = 24)

  1. What is the 8-letter word from these letters: AEUBHRTY (1)
  2. What is the anagram of INAPTLY (1)
    then add O for an 8 (2)
    then add CN to the 8-letter word for a 10 (3)
  3. What are the four 7-letter words that end in -TURN? (4)
  4. What two words can be made from LATEX + SHEEP - EX? (2)
  5. What is the word from HACK + RICE (1)
    then add a D for a 9 (2)
    then add E + THEN for a 14-letter word (3)
  6. What are the five 7-letter words ending in -AF? (5)
  7. What are the two words from these letters: AEOCHFMRT ? (2)
  8. What's the longest word ending in -PEED? (1)
  9. What are the prominent nicknames of California, Alaska and Oregon? (3)

ROUND 2 (total points = 27)

  1. What is the one 7-letter word and two 8s that end in LEFT? (3)
  2. What three words end in PRAT? (3)
  3. What is the 9-letter word from ANY + MILD + ON (1)
  4. What are the 8 eights that end in Z? (8)
  5. What is the 7 from CRAY + END (1)
    then add SO for a 9 (2)
    then add to that BU for an 11 (3)
  6. What three words end in -EFINGER? (3)
  7. What is the longest word ending in -NOR? (1)
  8. Only eight-letter word ending in -UF? (1)
  9. In the television show Catweazle what was the nickname of his young friend at the farm, the name of Catweazle's pet toad, what name did Catweazle use for electricity and what name did he use for the telephone? (4)

ROUND 3 (total Points = 22)

  1. What is the 7-letter word from SAVE+ ELK (1)
    then add an I to make an 8-letter word (2)
    then add CHT to the 8-letter word for an 11 (3)
  2. Only word whose pattern is ????MOS??? AND starts with C (1)
  3. What is the only 9-letter word that has DEF in the middle and includes an H? (1)
  4. What are the six 7-letter prefixes to FISH and the one eight-letter prefix? (7)
  5. How many words end in 'BOB'? (1)
  6. What is the last word ending in DOG alphabetically
    and the last word ending in GOD? (2)
  7. What is the only 8-letter word starting with N and ending with X
    and the only 9-letter word starting with N and ending with X? (2)
  8. In the 1963 film The Great Escape which actors played these characters:
    'The Tunnel King',
    'The Forger',
    and lastly, 'Intelligence'? (3)

ROUND 4 (Total Points = 24)

  1. Only 8-letter word ending in LAG? (1)
  2. What is the 8-letter word from OATH + SAP + R (1)
    then add L to make a 9-letter word (2)
  3. What is the only 9-letter word ending in -LOUT? (1)
  4. What are the only two 9s ending -IF? (2)
  5. CREEP + FIT = (1)
    + M = (2)
    + LOOS ? (3)
  6. What are the four 9-letter words ending in -RIGHT? (4)
  7. Only word that starts with M and ends in H, and whose middle letter is V? (6 letters before and 6 letters after the V) (5)
  8. Alphabetically what is the last 8-letter word ending in -PY
    and what is the longest word ending in -PPY? (2)
  9. In 2001 a film was released in which a red Cadillac had the number plate 3KMTG.
    What was the name of the movie,
    who starred in it
    and what was the tagline used to advertise the movie? (4)


Bonus question: CHIRPS + TRIPHASE (10)