Anagrams of: NARQUOIS_

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters.

• A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material.

• (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3

• fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet

• Any of 72 rays associated with the Sun, six for each of the 12 houses of the Zodiac.

• Of fifth rank or order.

• Consisting of five things; arranged in fives.

• To the base of five; represented by the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly

• a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

• a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

• (sometimes derogatory) A citizen of the United States of America, as opposed to a Latin American.

• a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms

• an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group

• a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task

• nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

• humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)