The What's-It-Called? Test

1. Hi! Welcome to the What's-It-Called? test. Everything has a name, even if most of us aren't familiar with it.  See if you can figure out which answer lists the name(s) belonging to each of these descriptions. (Hint: It's never #4)

2. 1

   Your little toe is a:

   Digette

   Minimus

   Stubette

   Piggy

3. 2

   When your arm or leg "falls asleep," the numbness you feel is called:

   Fractional Catalepsy

   Komaspasm

   Abdormition

   Dead weight

4. 3

   The covering at the end of a shoelace is called:

   A tippin

   An aglet

   A laceguard

   A threader

5. 4

   When silk rustles, the sound it makes is called:

   Scroop

   Shash

   Whiphing

   Rustling

6. 5

   The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place is called a:

   Lidring

   Capnut

   Ferrule

   Clamp

7. 6

   The hole in your shirt or blouse where your arm goes through is called:

   An armsaye

   A seamnotch

   A wingbreak

   A T-gap

8. 7

   Two of the various squiggles used in comic books to denote cussing are called:

   Spinlets and Prats

   Nittles and Grawlix

   Jarns and Quimp

   Jots and Tittles

9. 8

   The space between your thumb and your extended forefinger is called:

   A span

   A purlicue

   A falangent

   A play gun

10. 9

    Stomach rumbling is called:

    Wamble

    Groggle

    Strumble

    Hungry

11. 10

    The lights you see when you close your eyes really hard are called:

    Oculuminescence

    Optodioptrics

    Phosphenes

    Nightlights

Finished!