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25-12-2018

01 In Englandic (the English of England) what is the word for the vegetable that the Americans call zucchini?
Courgette

02 What is a synonym of spine or spinal column?
Backbone

03 What is the meaning of the initials in the company name IBM?
International Business Machines

04 How long is the Great Wall of China?
8,851.8 kilometres or 5,500.3 miles)

05 The English slang word for cheap wine is ‘plonk’. From what French word does this come?
Blanc (pronounced similar ro blonk in French)

06 What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara

07 In the film “Alien” (1979, director Ridley Scott) the spaceship is named after a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad. What was the novel?
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

08 What name is gived to a bird with webbed feet?
Palmiped (PAL-mi-ped). Latin palmipes, palmipedis (“broad-footed”). From palma (“the palm of the hand”) + pes (“a foot”).

10 What is the name of the sweet Greek dessert made with filo (FII.lou) pastry (i.e.flaky pastry), chopped nuts and syrup or honey?
Baklava (BAA.kluh.vaa; tambñes buh.KLAA:vuh. USA baa.kluh.VAA). [bɑːkləvɑː, bəˈklɑːvə, bɑːkləˈvɑː]. The word came into Greek from Turkish.

10 On which Italian island is Palermo?
Sicily

11 What is the usual English translation of the Latin phrase “errāre hūmānum est” [erˈraː.re huːˈmaː.num est]
To err is human. attributed to Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), From a longer quote as follows: "Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum." (= To err is human, but to persist in error (out of pride) is diabolical).

12 The most southerly point of mainland Britain is in the country of Cornwall (Kernow). What is it called?
Lizard Point (in Cornish An Lysardh, (= the high court' or palace)

13 Which animal is on the Flemish flag, on a background of gold?
A lion

14 In which country is Shakespeare s play Hamlet set?
Denmark

15 Which city became the capital of West-Germany in 1949?
Bonn

16 In what country is there a city called Batman?
Turkey

17 What is the Latin name for the big toe?
Hallux.

18 How many feet are in a fathom?
Six

19 In which city is the tomb of the composer Frédéric Chopin?
Paris

20 Which range of hills straddle the border between England from Scotland?
The Cheviots

21 Which Frenchman is the inventor of photography?
Louis Daguerre [dəˈɡɛər]; French: [dagɛʁ]. (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851).

22 Who Don Quixote’s imaginary love?
Dulcinea

23 Where the book “A Small Town in Germany” by John Le Carré set?
Bonn

24 How many gallons of beer are in a firkin?
Nine

25 Where in Scotland in 1314 did Robert the Bruce defeated the invading English forces?
Bannockburn

26. On which day of the week did Christopher Columbus discover the island of Dominica?
Sunday (The name Dominica is Latin for Sunday)

27 In which bay is the prison island of Alcatraz?
San Francisco Bay

28 Who was the first president of the USA?
George Washington

29 Which Greek hero killed the Minotaur ?
Theseus

30 What was the name of the wife of Othello in the play by Shakespeare “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice”?
Desdemona

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