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.
What does the Russian word Glasnost mean?
Which breed of dog has a name that is derived from the Russian word for “swift”?
What is agliophobia?
A logophile is a lover of what?
If an object is described as campanulate, what is it shaped like?
If Menshevik means minority, what word means majority?
What eight-letter V word of Italian origin translates into English as blood feud?
What does the prefix llan signify in the name of a Welsh town? Church, market, valley, river
What does the term ‘Kung Fu’ mean?
Which word can go after ‘mid’, ‘fort’ and ‘over’ to produce three new words?
Lusophone describes countries whose main language is what?
What English-speaking Caribbean island has a Spanish name meaning “Bearded”?
What does the Latin ‘quo vadis’ ask
In Spain, kids call them Pitufo; in Germany, Schlumpg. What do American kids call them?
What Japanese word means ‘divine wind’?
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 word goes before glove, hound and trot to make 3 new words?
What was the original meaning of the Latin word musculus, meaning muscle?
Donald Baxter McMillan compiled the first what dictionary?
Which French Phrase used in English means a false step or Mistake?
WHAT ‘I’ IS THE ENGLISH EQUIVALENT OF THE RUSSIAN NAME IVAN, AND THE WELSH NAME EVAN, AND THE IRISH NAME SHAUN?
WHAT DOES THE WORD NEFARIOUS MEAN?
THE FRENCH CALL IT “LA MANCHE” WHAT DO WE BRITS CALL IT?
WHAT ‘OT’ IS SLANG FOR DEFERRED PAYMENT?
WHAT ‘T’ IS WHAT YOU DO IN ORDER TO MAKE A ROPE INTO A HALF HITCH?
WHAT ‘N’ IS EXPRESSING OR IMPLYING DENIAL?
WHAT ‘F’ IS WHIMSICAL, ATTUNED TO THE SUPERNATURAL?
MANUTIUS’S VIRGIL PRINTED 1501 WAS THE FIRST TIME WHAT WAS USED?
WHAT ‘B’ COMES BEFORE ALLEY, CORNER, AND DATE?
WHAT ‘D’ IS A CREAM TO REMOVE UNWANTED HAIR?
WHAT ‘D’ IS ONE’S GHOSTLY DOUBLE?
WHAT ‘Y’ IS SPUN THREAD?
WHAT ‘W’ DO YOU TELL A HORSE?
WHAT ‘Q’ IS THE WORD FOR FIVE CHILDREN AT ONE BIRTH?
WHAT BOYS NAMES HAS THE EQUIVALENTS OF HAMISH IN SCOTLAND AND SHAMUS IN IRELAND?
WHAT ‘R’ IS RESTLESS OR ILL-AT-EASE?
WHAT ‘T’ IS AN ORIENTAL HEAD-DRESS?
WHAT ‘F’ IS TIN-GLAZED EARTHENWARE?
WHAT ‘O’ GOES BEFORE HAUL, LOOK AND BOARD?
WHAT ‘C’ IS TO COMPRESS INTO PLAITS OR FOLDS?
WHAT ‘B’ IS A TWO MASTED, SQUARE-RIGGED VESSEL?
EJACULATION COMES FROM THE LATIN MEANING WHAT?
WHAT ‘TM’ IS A TECHNIQUE OF FOCUSING THE MIND?
WHAT ‘Y’ IS TO BE FILLED WITH LONGING?
THERE ARE 3 COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WHERE CHINESE IS THE NATIVE LANGUAGE “CHINA & TAIWAN” ARE 2 NAME THE OTHER?
WHAT ‘S’ COMES BEFORE HEAT, BOAT AND ROLLER?
WHAT ‘V’ WAS A SCANDINAVIAN SEAMAN OR PIRATE?
WHAT ‘G’ IS A SPANISH METHOD OF EXECUTION BY STRANGULATION?
WHAT `G’ PRECEDES RAY OR GLOBULIN?
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