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Daily Mini-Quiz

09:19 UK time, Tuesday, 7 November 2006

Monday's Daily Mini-Quiz asked which word was not used in the National Scrabble Championships: ziuqinimyliad, ctenidia, epinasty. It was ziuqinimyliad (38% got it right), which is actually Daily Mini Quiz backwards. According to the OED, ctenidium are the respiratory organs or gills of Mollusca; epinasty implies the upper surface of an organ grows more quickly than the lower surface, causing it to bend downwards. Today's DMQ is on the .

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