Can you name the connected* compound words (volume II)?

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*NOTE: each answer is in turn an additional clue for the next answer in the quiz, for example, if the first answer were 'newsstand' the next word would start with 'stand' (such as 'standstill')
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Hint	Word
wooden pedestrian path
informal public stroll
do a 180° turn
cosmetic surgery above the neck
rocket launch
out in the water, like drilling
like a house on the ocean
the center and forward in basketball
open space surrounded by walls
a convict or prisoner
not very bright person

Hint	Word
product of creative thought
comes at the end of 9 months
July's is ruby
to obstruct or hinder discussion
sideline dweller who may be shy
daisy or rose holder
criticism aimed at an easy target
Dick Cheney's weapon of choice
a fight involving firearms
poster announcing a theater show
advertisement seen on a highway

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The Compound Game 2 Quiz

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Created by: HenryFieldstone -
Published: March 19th, 2009
Category: Language
Plays: 86,678

Tags: compound, connected

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	montecarlo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 04:34 GMT	9 points
	Great Dick Cheney clue... well done.

	jessbowen:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT	15 points
	Ooh, I liked the first one - but this one takes the same great concept but is a little harder (at least I thought so!). Nice job! Reminds me of the game show Chain Reaction on GSN.

	nobullship:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 05:05 GMT	3 points
	a convict or prisoner is a jailbird, right? i only got the other one from the clues.. hmmm

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT	10 points
	Yeah, I kept thinking jailbird as well. And it didn't help that I didn't get courtyard because I was confused by the concept of an OUTdoor space IN a building. I guess I get what they mean now that I've seen the answer, but a courtyard really isn't inside the building.

	AntieAnnie:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT	3 points
	funny how I got the first one last. This was a lot of fun :0)

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 05:45 GMT	2 points
	For the 9 months one I kept guessing "newborn" until I found out what it was by finally realizing what the ruby one was.

	MRL:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:05 GMT	2 points
	@Leo: Actually, a courtyard can be "inside" a building, at least as long as you consider "surrounded by" to be "inside". It's a debatable point of semantics, but I think it's acceptable.

	weizenugb:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:08 GMT	10 points
	Apparently some people don't understand how this quiz works. You can't accept things like beachfront, shootout, or birthday, even if they make sense according to the clue. The whole point is that each successive answer contains as its first part the previous clue's second part. You couldn't have birthday because then the next one won't work. That's the whole point of this quiz.

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	Nathan Jones:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:15 GMT	11 points
	I found the clue "like a house ON the ocean" misleading (I kept thinking "houseboat," which obviously didn't fit). Perhaps "like a house FACING the ocean" would be better?

	motrain24:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:19 GMT	20 points
	Love these kinds of games, but the clues for this one weren't as well worded as the 1st one.

	aprilvirgo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:20 GMT	5 points
	Man! This was definitely harder than the first one. I missed two (shorefront and frontcourt) I just could NOT figure them out. Barely got the gunplay/playbill ones - had 17 seconds left when those came to me. lol Great quiz - more please!

	raisingfear101:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:43 GMT	22 points
	I immediately thought "dumbass" for not very bright person.

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 06:59 GMT	2 points
	@MRL, that's pretty much what I was thinking when I said that knew what they meant by it after seeing the answer. Still, I don't think that qualifies as "inside" the building.

	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 07:01 GMT	5 points
	@raisingfear101, so did I. I even typed it in even though I was sure they wouldn't actually put that as an answer.

	tcalleen:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 07:44 GMT	2 points
	I agree that this one was harder. I kept trying to make shoreline work, and it didn't help that I know nothing about basketball. And I got stuck on courtyard, because I just kept trying to think what's another word for an atrium. I guess I still have the Greeks on the brain from the Isaac quiz.

	Bethannie:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 08:00 GMT	4 points
	I love these games! This was tougher than the first, there where a couple of words I'm not familiar with, being non-American (yardbird and frontcourt)but the great thing about this game is I could work them out by getting the previous/following answers. Eagerly awaiting The Compound Game 3!

Hint	Word
product of creative thought
comes at the end of 9 months
July's is ruby
to obstruct or hinder discussion
sideline dweller who may be shy
daisy or rose holder
criticism aimed at an easy target
Dick Cheney's weapon of choice
a fight involving firearms
poster announcing a theater show
advertisement seen on a highway

	chikka2:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 10:33 GMT	0 points
	Great quiz. Love these. Group "The Yardbirds" was all about being jailbirds I think

	dummo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 11:30 GMT	3 points
	Well thought out quiz. I didn't know a lot of those terms though after hearing the answers. Very creative.

	rahv:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 11:38 GMT	1 point
	i loved the first quiz but this one was much harder. i haven't heard a lot of the words used in here before (stonewall, jailbird, potshot, etc.) then again, english is not my native language ...

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	karinaedge:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 12:47 GMT	3 points
	i love these quizzes.!

	MrEnglishman:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 13:18 GMT	5 points
	Luckily you can work out the compound words by playing the game. But for an Englishman it was a bit of a struggle with shorefront (I would have plumped for "beachfront"; frontcourt (never heard of it); yardbird (definitely "jailbird"); gunplay ("gunfight" or "shootout"); and playbill (uncommon / archaic, and normally referred to as, erm, a "poster"). Great fun nevertheless!

	Bradley:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 13:23 GMT	5 points
	solid quiz, got'em all, though some tougher than others. Disagree with playbill being said to be archaic. Though in present use it's seen more as the program with the show. If someone says "Did you get the Playbill from the show we saw last week?", they're asking for the program, not the poster.

	striker64:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 13:35 GMT	4 points
	Much harder than the first, and I actually learned something new - I've never heard yardbird or playbill, and it's been a long time since I've heard birdbrain. I love these quizzes though.

	Ribhump:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 13:42 GMT	3 points
	yeah lots i've never heard used before. Gunplay, playbill, wallflower, frontcourt and yardbird. But i suppose they may not be universal terms, only applicable to USA? Still i do like these compound quizes and love the cyclical nature of the answers.

	weizenugb:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 14:26 GMT	4 points
	Just in quick defense of my comment that got downvoted: somebody had posted a comment saying they thought that beachfront should be accepted for shorefront. I was saying that you can't accept alternates in this game because the whole game depends on getting the compound parts exactly right. My point was that "offbeach drilling" isn't a phrase, obviously it's "offshore drilling." That comment is now gone, so nobody knows what I'm referring to anymore.

	marpocky:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 15:23 GMT	7 points
	@ everyone struggling with the "American" terms like yardbird, playbill, frontcourt, etc: I'm from the USA, and they're not exactly common over here either.

	DWolf:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 15:32 GMT	-1 points
	I also never heard "yardbird", I got it only from the connectedness. But the clue is not right http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yardbird does not match the clue very well at all, and the wikipedia link for it redirects to a jazz musician. And I agree a playbill is more of a program than a poster, but not particularly archaic at least for actual theater as opposed to a movie.

	DWolf:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 15:39 GMT	1 point
	@montecarlo: the other quiz was a quiz of the NHL, which is made of American and Canadian teams. How is that not American? Your spiteful sounding comment doesn't make sense. I guess I wouldn't know which of these words are america-centric, but most of the ones people are having trouble with seem to be pretty unusual to americans too. (eg. frontcourt, yardbird, gunplay)

	DWolf:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 15:42 GMT	0 points
	Oh, I should also say I liked this quiz a lot too, despite some of the clues being misleading. It did make it harder which was good, just would be nicer if it could be hard for a different reason.

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	HollywoodLeo:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 16:21 GMT	2 points
	MovieDynamic has obviously never been in the military.

	Catherine_F:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 16:25 GMT	3 points
	This is definitely harder. I was stuck for a long time on "daisy or rose holder". I tried "duckboard" for "wooden pedestrian path", but got "boardwalk" trying to guess the next one. I was also convinced the not-very-bright-person had to be a "der-brain", a favourite term of mine when I was about 9.

	Sneuticles:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 17:05 GMT	0 points
	i like these quizzes. am i the only one surprised to see that the completion rate is only 12% ??

	sub:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 17:50 GMT	1 point
	Some of the clues given are pretty misleading, that's what makes the quiz difficult. For example, M-W has a completely different definition for yardbird: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yardbird

	AKAPseudonym:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 18:31 GMT	3 points
	Shorefront is a weird word. Beachfront and shoreline are both very common, shorefront not so much. The Firefox spell checker even underlines it.

	MamaJoan:	Mar 19th, 2009 at 19:46 GMT	1 point
	Fun quiz!