Answers to the quiz: Regency Slang with Food & Drink
- Quizzes
- Answers: Ten Lords a’Leaping
- Answers: Regency Slang #1
- Answers: A Regency Christmas
- Answers: A Christmas Carol
- Answers: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Georgette Heyer
- Answers: The Winter Bride
- Answers: Regency Slang #2
- Answers to A New Word Wench
- Quiz — My Book Boyfriends
- English Names
- Answers to A Regency Christmas Quiz #2
- Answers to An Impossible Quiz
- Answers to Regency Slang Quiz No. #4
- Answers to “Ten lords a’leaping” quiz Number 2
- Answers to the quiz: Regency Slang with Food & Drink
- Answers to A Beastly Quiz
- Scoundrel’s Daughter — the pre-publication quiz
- Answers to Christmas Quiz #3
- Answers to the Quiz on The Rake’s Daughter.
- Answers to Another Christmas Quiz
- Answers to the Novels of Georgette Heyer Quiz
- Georgette Heyer Quiz #2 — the answers
I hope you enjoyed my little quiz (here on the Word Wenches page). Some of the terms have come up in previous quizzes, so I hope you got them right. Quite a few of them are used in Georgette Heyer’s novels so if you’re a Heyerite you should do quite well, I do enjoy making up the alternative answers though, and my cunning plan is to trick you into guessing wrong.
1) A squab is :—
c) a young pigeon
2) A fudge is:—
a) a false rumor
3) A bumblebroth is:—
d) a tangled situation
4) To be a trifle cucumberish is:—
b) to be short of money
5) To pitch the gammon means:—
a) to lie or play a trick on someone
6) To eat Hull cheese means :—
b) to be drunk
7) If you are in plump currant, you are:—
c) feeling good
8) To call someone a mushroom means:—
b) they are social climbers
9) To be swimming in lard means:—
d) to be very rich
10) If someone is dished up:—
a) they are broke
11) Lobscouse is:—
c) a stew made of salt beef, onions and biscuits
12) To make a cake of yourself means:—
b) to make a fool of yourself
Now, go back to the Word Wenches page where the quiz is, and tell us how you went. Did you enjoy it? And is there a topic you’d like a quiz on? I’m happy to take suggestions, though no promises.
- Quizzes
- Answers: Ten Lords a’Leaping
- Answers: Regency Slang #1
- Answers: A Regency Christmas
- Answers: A Christmas Carol
- Answers: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Georgette Heyer
- Answers: The Winter Bride
- Answers: Regency Slang #2
- Answers to A New Word Wench
- Quiz — My Book Boyfriends
- English Names
- Answers to A Regency Christmas Quiz #2
- Answers to An Impossible Quiz
- Answers to Regency Slang Quiz No. #4
- Answers to “Ten lords a’leaping” quiz Number 2
- Answers to the quiz: Regency Slang with Food & Drink
- Answers to A Beastly Quiz
- Scoundrel’s Daughter — the pre-publication quiz
- Answers to Christmas Quiz #3
- Answers to the Quiz on The Rake’s Daughter.
- Answers to Another Christmas Quiz
- Answers to the Novels of Georgette Heyer Quiz
- Georgette Heyer Quiz #2 — the answers