The Letter 'S' Quiz
All of the answers in this quiz start with the letter 's'.
Quiz Questions
- What 's' is a type of wide-brimmed Mexican men's hat used to shield the head from the sun?
- It was announced that which English town would be granted city status in October 2021?
- What 's' is an evening party or reception?
- In the bible, who asked for the head of John the Baptist after dancing for Herod?
- What 's' is a the right to vote in political elections?
- How many countries 'starting with the letter s' are there on mainland Europe?
- What 's' is a word that means recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances?
- What feminine name originates from the Latin word for forest and means 'spirit of the wood'?
- Which novel by Charlotte Bronte was her second published novel after Jane Eyre?
- Which 's' is music performed with each note sharply separated from the others?
- What game did out of work American architect Alfred Mosher Butts invent in 1938?
- Which element with the atomic number 38 is named after a village in Scotland?
- Which nerve is the longest and largest nerve in the human body?
- Which area in England was designated a national park on 31 March 2010?
- What system, is the modern metric system of measurement?
- What is the name of the frail boy character in the novel Nicholas Nickleby?
- What 's' is the capital of the American state of Oregon?
- In the NATO Phonetic Alphabet what word represent the letter 'S'?
- What is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet?
- "Shoving leopard" in place of "loving shepherd" is an example of what sort of verbal error?
- Which South African mountain was the site of an important battle of the Boer War from 23 to 24 January 1900?
- What 's' is an interaction giving rise to a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts?
- What 's' can be a blood-red colour or being positive, especially in an apparently bad situation?
- Which character from the British comic Viz according to his creator "is a man who is unable to communicate with women"?
- What 's' is a race of reptilian humanoids in the sci-fi TV series Doctor Who?
- What 's' is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument which is a practical back-up navigation tool for ships?
- An attack on which fort marked the official beginning of the American Civil War?
- The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable which depicts a rural scene on which river?
- What 's' is a character in the novel Trilby by George du Maurier and has come to mean a person who manipulates or exerts excessive control over another?
- What 's' is a type of Scandinavian buffet-style meal with multiple cold and hot dishes of various foods?
- What 's' is the study of meanings in language?
- What is a solar day on Mars called?
Answers - the letter 's'
- Sombrero
- Southend-on-Sea
- Soiree
- Salome
- Suffrage
- Seven (San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland)
- Sporadic
- Silvia
- Shirley
- Staccato
- Scrabble
- Strontium
- Sciatic nerve
- South Downs
- SI system (International System of Units)
- Smike
- Salem
- Sierra
- Sigma
- Spoonerism
- Spion Kop
- Synergy
- Sanguine
- Sid the Sexist
- Silurians
- Sextant
- Sumter (Fort Sumter)
- Stour (River Stour)
- Svengali
- Smorgasbord
- Semantics
- Sol