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Can you name the phobias from their descriptions?
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Phobias Quiz
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Created Jan 23, 2008 in
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TheArbiter
:
Sep 17th, 2008 at 19:47 GMT
0 points
Could anyone tell me where the route for coulrophobia comes from?
Doomsday:
Sep 24th, 2008 at 12:36 GMT
11 points
I got THREE!! wow
magister
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Sep 30th, 2008 at 22:56 GMT
4 points
Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English gives: Greek: "kolon" and "kolobathristes" Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon gives an apparently unrelated definition of "kolon" and nothing for "kolobathristes." Unless I don't know how to read the Lexicon, which is entirely possible.
Bray
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Nov 8th, 2008 at 16:40 GMT
-2 points
I got 4/12. Epic fail.
scatmanfan
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Nov 27th, 2008 at 16:41 GMT
-4 points
It won't let me answer anything my first go around...it's weird...
SillyStokey92
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Nov 28th, 2008 at 14:20 GMT
-4 points
I only got 4. Pretty hard, I thought.
Ely:
Jan 25th, 2009 at 18:35 GMT
6 points
God I love all the useless trivia I pick up on this site - next time someone freaks out over lightning I'll calmly inform them that it's a mild case of emetophobia and there's nothing to fear.
Ely:
Jan 25th, 2009 at 18:37 GMT
13 points
*Brontophobia... that was embarrasing
Brii
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Mar 14th, 2009 at 23:46 GMT
5 points
This is great, I can now tell a good half of my friends that they're coulrophobic and they won't have a clue what I'm saying.
MartinB
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Mar 19th, 2009 at 20:22 GMT
1 point
As all the answers end in -phobia, surely just putting the first bit of any answer should suffice?! Difficult enough anyway. I thought Cocophobia was going to do for fear of clowns!!
Forbsey
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Mar 23rd, 2009 at 18:38 GMT
2 points
i tried every spelling for fear of flying - obviusly noy the right one though - ah well !!
milkmeister
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Apr 3rd, 2009 at 00:28 GMT
6 points
Nice quiz. Would be good to have one the other way round, as there are so many strange phobias out there.
pbrown
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Apr 9th, 2009 at 18:10 GMT
6 points
Ron Weasley has Arachnophobia
gushuss32
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May 15th, 2009 at 10:42 GMT
4 points
there are multiple acceptable terms for fear of flying, as according to Merriam Websters and the DSM for specific phobia. They should include all of them, no? aerophobia, aviatophobia, aviophobia or pteromechanophobia
White
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Jun 16th, 2009 at 19:10 GMT
0 points
Tried aibohphobia but it's not there.
RandallPinkston
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Jun 24th, 2009 at 07:18 GMT
9 points
Those with fear of heights should not look at the percentage drop between acrophobia and the six below it.
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mollymay
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Aug 4th, 2009 at 21:26 GMT
-5 points
Okay, is there a fancy scientific -phobia word for 'the fear of admiting ones fears'? Because i have a serious case of THAT!!!!! Truely i do!
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mollymay
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Aug 11th, 2009 at 20:17 GMT
-6 points
little help here?
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mollymay
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Aug 14th, 2009 at 20:59 GMT
-6 points
hello?
escobar
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 21:01 GMT
2 points
triscunectophobia
choco87
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Oct 15th, 2009 at 06:58 GMT
0 points
Arsonphobia :-(
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mtc:
Nov 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 GMT
-7 points
I thought vertigo was a fear of heights?
mmts022002
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Jan 30th, 2010 at 06:59 GMT
1 point
I caouldnt spell anything correctly but I knew 5 of them!!! boo
ngbshamrock
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Jul 9th, 2010 at 22:00 GMT
1 point
Spelling the words are hard enough, let alone knnowing them too...
jsiehler
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Aug 31st, 2010 at 15:05 GMT
3 points
It ought to be bozophobia. Really ought to be.
ConcreteEskimo
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Oct 18th, 2010 at 00:21 GMT
4 points
Where is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
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piford
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Dec 3rd, 2010 at 11:41 GMT
-5 points
My quiz is way better because it twenty and more fun ones like anatidaephobia and hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Jam1
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Feb 24th, 2011 at 21:54 GMT
3 points
Great quiz. Some other suggestions: Ailurophobia- fear of cats, Triskaidekaphobia- fear of the number 13, and hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- fear of long words!
evillttlimp
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Feb 28th, 2011 at 17:35 GMT
1 point
Only reason I know about coulrophobia is from that one time I looked up what it was... 'cause I have it.
bglyon
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May 25th, 2011 at 06:30 GMT
3 points
accept astraphobia, the more common name for fear of lightning and thunder, also aerophobia works for flying
Heatbag34
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May 31st, 2011 at 18:21 GMT
1 point
Good quiz! Missing my favourite one though: Zemmiphobia... Fear of The Great Mole Rat...
NvjdsIsSmart
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Jun 9th, 2011 at 15:46 GMT
-1 points
What about pantaphobia?
Rob42
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Jan 23rd, 2012 at 09:54 GMT
0 points
Not an easy quiz at all. I only got two, some of these "phobias" have awfully strange names, don't they?
wickedsmileyify
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Feb 3rd, 2012 at 04:47 GMT
1 point
No arachibutyrophobia, fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth?
DandD8
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Jul 29th, 2012 at 18:03 GMT
2 points
You forgot hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia...The fear of long words
footymad_98
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Aug 2nd, 2012 at 08:16 GMT
1 point
7!! not bad....
vpetmad
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Sep 22nd, 2012 at 20:14 GMT
1 point
Some more phobias I like: dendrophobia (trees), alektorophobia (chickens-- even cooked ones) and turophobia (cheese). I know more boring ones too, but those are some interesting ones.
RonB
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Oct 20th, 2012 at 20:07 GMT
2 points
Also need to add "astrapophobia" for thunder and lightning. Brontophobia is pretty much only for thunder, which, after all, never killed anyone.
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