Your genius question of the day

Stick genius in quotation marks since I got it right. Long ago, my brother was looking in one of those Quizzes for Geniuses type books and asked from it: "What is the one word in the English language that contains all five vowels in order with none repeating?" Without missing a beat, I said, "Which one? ________ or ________?" I swear I'd never thought about it before, never been asked the question before, and never seen the answer before.

I'm betting that at least five DUers chime in with the answer(s) within 10 minutes. (It would be more, but once the question's answered it's kind of pointless to keep chiming in. Add your own genius quiz questions if you feel like it, though.)

No prize, but here's the funnest site for language geeks I've seen in ages, complete with additional replies for the truly anal-retentive among us: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/fivevowels

didnt even think of that one.

in reply #1 :))

(Meant to be a reply to original post, but as that was me too I'm not too worried about it)

Of course!

I think that would be a more appropriate answer. :D

Hal Long is a Chinaman

No offense; I'm sure I'll find it hysterical when it's explained to me. I just don't get it at all at the moment.

When spoken it sounds like a question. The sharpest minds hearing it for the first time take a bit to picture it as a statement of fact. It's a great ice breaker.

is abstemious, but facetious is the usual answer. "facetiously" and "abstemiously" give us all five vowels, plus our old friend, "sometimes" y.