Two Letter Answers Quiz
All the questions in this quiz require just a two letter answer!
Questions
- Which two letters are worth the most in scrabble?
- Dorothy and Toto are deposited by a cyclone into Munchkin Country in which magical land?
- What two letters can be a Chinese politician and also the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet?
- Which small car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company was introduced on September 11, 1996 as a small and low-cost addition to the Ford range?
- What is the Roman numeral for 550?
- Sandi Toksvig replaced Stephen Fry in which British comedy television quiz show in 2016?
- What two initials were often used to describe an American soldier in World War Two?
- Which UK tennis player won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates - we just want the first name she was commonly known by?
- Name the god of the sun in Egyptian mythology?
- What two first initials are shared by former Egghead, Mr. de Mooi, and Irish rugby international Mr. Stander?
- What is the two letter country code top-level domain for South Africa?
- Name the important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar?
- Which dialect of the Chinese language is primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, the southern half of Jiangsu Province?
- Name the special day celebrated by mathematics nerds on March 14th?
- Which bovine trained as a draft animal is known as a bullock in Australia?
- Can you give the well known first name of the American film and television actress born Mary Cathleen Collins in 1956?
- What are the first two letters in the postcode for 10 Downing Street, London?
- By what name was Mr. T commonly known by in the 1980s television series The A-Team?
- Which two letter word can be placed in the centre of each of the following words to form a longer word in each case: DOES, CORNED, GOWN, and OUTING?
- Which river in western Siberia is the world's seventh-longest?
- Which two letter symbol is used in the measurement of frequency?
- Which two-letter acronym means "in the year of our Lord" in Latin?
- Which two initials go with Travers for the pen name of the author who wrote the Mary Poppins books?
- What two letters meaning air, in traditional Chinese culture, is believed to be a vital force forming part of any living entity?
- What is the chemical symbol for tin? Too easy? What about antimony?
- Which two letter Latin abbreviation means "that is"?
- What is the name of the longest river in Italy?
- Mr Barnum is widely credited with coining the phrase, "There's a sucker born every minute" - by what two first initials was he well known?
Answers:
- Q and Z
- Oz (in the film and book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
- Xi
- Ka
- DL (D is 500, and L is 50)
- QI (short for Quite Interesting)
- G.I.
- Jo (Jo Durie)
- Ra (the Egyptian god of the sun)
- CJ (CJ de Mooi and CJ Stander)
- ZA (which is an abbreviation of the Dutch Zuid-Afrika)
- Ur
- Wu
- Pi (Pi Day - the clue is in the date, March 14 - March is the 3rd month, so it is 314 and of course, pi equals 3.14))
- Ox
- Bo (Bo Derek)
- SW (the postcode is SW1A 2AA)
- BA (B. A. Baracus)
- DO (to give dodoes, cordoned, godown and outdoing)
- Ob (the Ob river in Russia)
- Hz (hertz)
- A.D. (from the Latin, Anno Domini)
- PL (P. L. Travers)
- Qi
- Sn (Sn from Stannum, the Latin word for tin) and antimony is Sb
- i.e. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase id est, meaning "that is")
- Po
- PT (P. T. Barnum)