Can you name the words with 3 vowels but only one consonant?

Definition	4-Letter Word
The Irish name for Ireland
A radiant glow around the heads of saints
A tiny and scarcely detectable amount
Currency of France and Spain
4th largest Great Lake
Any one of 887 Easter Island statues
Woodwind double-reeded instrument
A fencing blade heavier than a foil
A section or region
Black and white sandwich cookie

Definition	4-Letter Word
An assistant often in teaching
An elaborate song for a solo voice
30th most populated US State
The largest and most populated continent
An extremely long period of time
Villain in Shakespeare's Othello
Flat-pack Swedish furniture store
The manifestation of a thought in the mind
Freedom to do something without difficulty
US State with capital city Columbus

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Three Vowels - One Consonant Quiz

by dawesbr

Created Feb 13, 2010 in Language
Featured Aug 15, 2011
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	1derfool:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 19:06 GMT	12 points
	Crosswordese 101

	Mimbleton:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 19:26 GMT	3 points
	oahu, oleo, luau, alee, eave... fun quiz!

	MasterPenguin:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 19:33 GMT	21 points
	That p in epée is doubly lonely- not only is it the only consonant, it's the only letter in the word that's not an e. Then again, we can't have words in English like eeée, right?

	pfrijiritr:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 19:38 GMT	20 points
	@MasterPenguin: not as lonely as the "v" in "eevee"

	MasterPenguin:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 19:47 GMT	11 points
	@pfrijiritr - touché.

	kellkris:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 19:49 GMT	2 points
	Good one!!!!!

	Lil2:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 20:13 GMT	2 points
	for the othello villain i entered in 'Iolo' first. then i realized that isn't one of the Bard's characters, that's the bard from the King's Quest games.

	SteelyMatt:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 20:14 GMT	45 points
	The one that got me was "aeon" primarily because I've never seen it spelled with an "a" before.

	dancastro:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 20:27 GMT	5 points
	Before taking this quiz, I could have sworn that "aise" was also an English word. But it happened to be only French (for "ease"). "Greek vowel" would have been much easier for iota, but as it's now it had 50% of right guesses, so it's just me. (Of course, iota comes from yodh, that is the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, so the etymology is clear... but almost everything becomes clear once you know the answer).

	chikka2:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 20:35 GMT	6 points
	Learned yet another Sporcle bit of trivia about Easter Island. Very good quiz

	dalheim:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 20:46 GMT	2 points
	i wrote eyre for the ireland one :(

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	juviejay:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 22:04 GMT	15 points
	Could have had a better clue that "freedom to do something..." I thought.

	historyobsession:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 22:36 GMT	2 points
	Black and white SANDWICH cookie would have been better.

	Barbaloot:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 23:12 GMT	3 points
	I had never heard of a "black and white cookie" before and got Oreo with ease (no pun intended), but after reading the comments and seeing the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_white_cookie), I agree the clue for Oreo should be changed, perhaps to historyobsession's suggestion.

	jdreyfuss:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 23:47 GMT	4 points
	It took me a minute to realize it was eon, but with the Commonwealth spelling and not the American spelling. Damn dipthongs. :P

	dawesbr:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 23:49 GMT	8 points
	Wow, I'm amazed this got published after a year and a half! Thanks for the feedback guys, don't think I have editing rights and can't seem to find any, guess it's in Sporcle's hands now, which bugs me because there are errors I want to get rid of (such as 'Black and White Cookie', as has been mentioned, but also, 'Shakespearean villain in Othello' doesn't need the 'Shakespearean' and it's bugging me). I would suggest maybe something to do with "Twist, lick, and dunk!" instead of adding sandwich, maybe?

	D00M_M0USE:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 00:33 GMT	4 points
	What about the capital of Samoa?

	dancastro:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 00:54 GMT	9 points
	@jdreyfuss: well, you'll find eons in a book about paleontology, but they will be aeons if the book is about palaeontology...

	gigimacmurray:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 01:10 GMT	1 point
	Loved your quiz dawesbr, but didn't know eon was spelled aeon. And I did learn about the Easter Island statute. So those are the 2 I missed. Enjoyed it.

	JacketFan:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 01:32 GMT	1 point
	Black and white cookie - yeah, OREO! I could only picture the ones you get in NY - big ones with half chocolate icing and half vanilla. Provincialism strikes again.

	googlebird:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 01:36 GMT	3 points
	ditto @1derful - Years of crossword puzzles finally pay off.

	caramba:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 01:42 GMT	3 points
	Glad to see this one finally make the front page.

	davetrain:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 02:35 GMT	8 points
	@Sachsen Yes, a "y" can be a vowel, but it's used as a consonant in "year." Words that use "y" as a vowel include "easy," as suggested by @ricestillfumbled, excluding the fact that "easy" wouldn't work for the without difficulty clue because it was presented as a noun, not an adjective. That is all.

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	NY_MOB:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 03:33 GMT	4 points
	@koopa08: Proper nouns are words. And not all the answers were proper nouns. So the title was fine.

	fm_:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 03:42 GMT	3 points
	30th most populous? Surely there's something more notable about Iowa! Not that I can think of anything.

	Bobman1:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 05:10 GMT	0 points
	Iowa: Corn! Aeon.... is that a British spelling, like foetus and encyclopaedia? That one stumped me--all I could come up with were 3-letter words, eon, age, era. Fun quiz!

	luxurylime:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 06:19 GMT	3 points
	Super proud of myself for knowing "Moai." Super disappointed in myself for not getting "idea"...d'oh! Good quiz!

	Briseis:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 07:41 GMT	7 points
	As far as I know "A radiant glow around the heads of saints" is an aureola...

	mitchconn:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 15:24 GMT	-1 points
	I had never seen it spelled "aeon" before. Just "eon".

	Havok3595:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 17:52 GMT	2 points
	I knew aeon only from the MTV cartoon and later movie Aeon Flux.

	wistfulabacus:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 19:40 GMT	3 points
	Re that spelling, quiz seems nicely balanced to me: This side of the Atlantic we're more likely to enter 'aeon', but you lot on the other side of the pond probably understood the cookie clue straightaway. Good quiz with that nice bit of Anglo-American diplomacy, though possibly slightly too easy--except for that moai . . .

	ezois:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 13:54 GMT	2 points
	My first thought was eon but I thought it might be from the other side of the Atlantic. :)

	Tom_Tildrum:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 16:50 GMT	1 point
	I thought "Moai" was the proper name for a gremlin. :-)