{"id":632,"date":"2010-10-01T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/10\/01\/friday-quiz-missing-links\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:30:00","slug":"friday-quiz-missing-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/10\/01\/friday-quiz-missing-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Quiz: Missing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another quiz taken from my puzzle of the day desk calendar! I think I&#8217;m going to have to buy myself another calendar next year if Santa doesn&#8217;t bring me one; it&#8217;s provided some really fun blogging experiences. (Either that or I&#8217;m going to have&nbsp; to make up my own quizzes, which sounds too much like hard work).<\/p>\n<p>This time the aim is to fill in the missing middle word on each line, so that the first two words AND the last two words of each set form a scientific(ish) term. As a non-sciency example, fill in the gap below<\/p>\n<p>GREEN ________ BAG<\/p>\n<p>with the word TEA, to form the terms GREEN TEA and TEA BAG.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: red\"><span style=\"color: black\">As before, answer in the comments<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: red\"><span style=\"color: black\"> in any order you like &#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: black\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: blue\">but please submit only one answer per person per hour<\/span><\/b><\/span>, to give as many people as possible a chance to play! <span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"color: red\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>DRY <span style=\"color: blue\">__<u>ICE<\/u>__ <\/span>AGE (Lisbeth)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>STROBE <span style=\"color: blue\">_<u>LIGHT<\/u>_<\/span> WAVE (Pika)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>BINARY <span style=\"color: blue\">__<u>STAR<\/u>__<\/span> FISH (Alyssa)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>FOOD <u><span style=\"color: blue\">_CHAIN_<\/span><\/u> REACTION (Bob)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>HEAVY <span style=\"color: blue\">_<u>WATER<\/u>_<\/span> TABLE (Anonymous)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>PERPETUAL <span style=\"color: blue\">_<u>MOTION<\/u>_<\/span> SICKNESS (Mermaid)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>CLEAN <span style=\"color: blue\">__<u>ROOM<\/u>__<\/span> TEMPERATURE (Chall)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>FUEL <span style=\"color: blue\">__<u>CELL<\/u>__<\/span> DIVISION (Schlupp)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>COMMON <span style=\"color: blue\">__<u>COLD<\/u>__<\/span> FUSION (Pika)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>LAND <span style=\"color: blue\">__<u>MASS<\/u>__<\/span> SPECTROMETER (Alyssa)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I got all but one of the answers. Let&#8217;s just say that I came up with some fairly ridiculous guesses (binary cat? Code fish?) out of desperation, and felt rather silly when I saw the answer!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update the post with the answers and bragging rights as and when I get time, and I&#8217;ll add clues if there are any unanswered questions after a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another quiz taken from my puzzle of the day desk calendar! I think I&#8217;m going to have to buy myself another calendar next year if Santa doesn&#8217;t bring me one; it&#8217;s provided some really fun blogging experiences. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/10\/01\/friday-quiz-missing-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,26,3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","category-english-language","category-science","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}