--- title: Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidde… # Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words The 15 questions of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 84 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t1/) — Your mate: "Nothing's spelled wrong in a dictionary, innit, so the answer's 'nothing'." What is the trick? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t2/) — Which animal is hidden across two words in "I saw a crab bit Tom"? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t3/) — Which fruit is hidden in "The cap pleased Gran"? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t4/) — What would happen if you added "er" to "short"? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t5/) — A cartoon says pear, pair, pare and peer all sound exactly the same. Fix it. — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t6/) — Tyler, rough: "Riddles are stupid, a piano's got no keys, it's got buttons, you muppet." ("Muppet" means fool.) Who is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t7/) — Dylan, Gen Alpha: "I'm fasting till lunch, no cap, I'm starving." ("No cap" means no lie.) What does "fasting" mean here? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t8/) — Which word, written backwards, makes another real word? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t9/) — Which sentence leaves out the letter "a"? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t10/) — A man shows a photo: "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son." His friend says, "So it's you!" Why is the friend wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/t11/) — Which phrase hides the name of a country across two words? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/e1/) — Identify the term denoting a composition from which a particular letter has been deliberately excluded. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/e2/) — Ascertain the object that "has keys but cannot open locks" in the well-known riddle. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/e3/) — Select the word which, among "pear", "pair", "pare" and "peer", is not pronounced in the same manner as the others. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/e4/) — It is given that a speaker has no siblings and states that "this man's father is my father's son". Determine the identity of the man depicted. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [56. Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/) - next →: [58. Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up langua…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/58-olympiad-breakthrough-puzzles-in-made-up-languages/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/)