Language
Are you a Language aficionado? Try to avoid a trivia faux pas and answer these kitschy questions. Find out if you're just a dilettante or if you really have that je ne sais quoi.
Which of the following is the correct spelling — dessiccated, desiccated, dessicated?
What two words complete the following proverb- Why keep a dog and …?
What does the term ‘Kung Fu’ mean?
What ‘p’ is to contaminate?
What ‘n’ is an old word for promontory or headland?
What is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’ which we use to mean that the person under suspicion was somewhere else when the crime was committed?
: What does ‘Fitz’ mean at the beginning of a surname?
What does it mean if a meeting is held “sub rosa”?
In Australian slang, what is a ‘Thunder Box’?
An onomastician studies what?
What is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’ which we use to mean that the person under suspicion was somewhere else when the crime was committed?
In phonetics, what is a sound that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure above the glottis?
Literal translation what Persian word is leg garment?
Cheval-vapeur in France is equal to what in English?
What is intentional, criminal dismemberment also known as?
Lahnaphophobia is the fear of what?
What is philography?
Which cat is meant in the phrase ‘not enough room to swing a cat’?
What mystical word, whose Greek letters are equivalent to 365 in numbers, was used as a superstitious charm?
If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of?
In Gaelic, what is the literal meaning of the name Campbell?
In the jargon of archery, what is a Robin Hood?
What is a quadruped?
What is the only word in the English language that both begins and ends with the letters u-n-d?
Choo Kiko Wapi – what have I asked in Swahili?
A Rafter is a collection of what creatures?
Limnology is the study of what?
Which word could mean either a piece of coal, a horse, a swan or a bread roll?
A petrologist studies what?
Elizabeth I had anthrophobia what was she afraid of?
What does Kamikaze mean in English
What ‘fruity’ term for a small and unstable country dependent on agriculture was first used by O. Henry in reference to Honduras?
What is the literal translation of Dada – the name given to the anti-traditionalist art movement begun in 1916?
Ornithophily is what?
A duffer is Australian slang for what?
We know what a fez is but what does fez mean in Turkish?
Which word can mean a flat-bottomed boat?
What do itchy people call the “rhus radicans” they were sorry they came into contact with?
What group of Americans speak a dialect they call Muderschprooch?
Oikophobia is the fear of what?
Parascopisim is what sexual behaviour?
What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet?
What is the origin of the word hoax?
What is the chief symptom of someone suffering from oniomania?
What is Adam’s Ale commonly known as?
What is the name given to someone who studies plants?
What is the main language spoken in Chile?
An elephant is called a pachyderm what does it literally mean?
Which word went with Britannia to describe the supposedly vibrant late 90s?
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