Fears & Phobias

Fears & Phobias was our discussion theme at TABLEtalk on Tuesday, February 18th.  I wonder how well you might do with our quiz below. You need to match the technical word with it's correct meaning ...

1.  the fear of staying single
2.  the fear of computers
3.  the fear of light
4.  the fear of bees
5.  the fear of dogs
6.  the fear of going to bed  (not something I personally suffer from)
7.  the fear of the colour white
8.  the fear of water
9.  the fear of knees
10. the fear of being stared at

A.  apiphobia
B.  genuphobia
C.  anupteaphobia
D.  cynophobia
E.  ophthalmophobia
F.  leukophobia
G.  hydrophobia
H.  cyberphobia
I.  clinophobia
J.  photophobia

(answers below)

We also did an 'Agony Aunt' exercise in which students wrote letters regarding a particular fear they suffered from and then another student group responded with advice  -  some of which can only be described as 'harsh'.

Aiste coined a new fear for us ...
Baselphobia: a type of phobia when people are afraid of crazy, silly, unpredictable people who don't use their brains in the proper way.

This is Basel

QUIZ ANSWERS:
1C   2H   3J   4A   5D   6I   7F   8G   9B   10E