{"id":939665,"date":"2026-10-24T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:20:12","slug":"abc-wordage-quiz-its-time-to-raise-a-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939665\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Wordage quiz: It&#8217;s time to raise a glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Small capsule-shaped figures demonstrate the effects of alcohol.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10c35eb580c3d1584a6de52aeacf8e0d.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/> Different concepts of alcohol and its effects.(ABC News \/ Jarrod Fankhauser)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Drink it down, down, down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Your challenge in today&#8217;s Wordage quiz is to sort words and phrases for alcohol according to how old they are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Whether you&#8217;re on the turps or off the grog, a little tipsy or fully sloshed, just BYO some knowledge and take your best shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Bottoms up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Source: Oxford English Dictionary, Etymonline, Green\u2019s Dictionary of Slang, Merriam-Webster, Macquarie Dictionary<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">How to play:<\/p>\n<p>Drag each name into the shaded box. Hit Submit when you&#8217;re happy.You have three guesses per round. And there are always three rounds.You can get a hint if you&#8217;re stuck.Where to find all the ABC&#8217;s quizzes<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Want to test yourself even further?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Take a squiz at <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/quizzes\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the ABC News quiz topic page<\/a> and see if you&#8217;re a whiz at our previous quizzes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Different concepts of alcohol and its effects.(ABC News \/ Jarrod Fankhauser) Drink it down, down, down&#8230; Your challenge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[377764,23321,64,63,406186,506174,461863,525,1852,13054,8515,85,506173],"class_list":["post-939665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abc-news-quiz","tag-alcohol","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-booze","tag-free-news-quiz","tag-free-quiz","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-hangover","tag-quiz","tag-sports","tag-wordage-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}