Language - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabets | How many letters comprise the modern Greek alphabet? | 24 | 2023/04/20 |
| Old English | The Scottish parliament is situated in Holyrood in Edinburgh. What does the word ‘rood’ mean? | Cross / Crucifix | 2025/03/01 |
| English | The English use of the words ‘beef’ and ‘pork’ for cow and pig meat stems from which other European language, which became prominent in Britain after the Norman Conquest of 1066? | French | 2025/01/20 |
| Chinese | What is the English translation of the Chinese word diannao 电脑, the meaning of which is literally ‘electric brain’? | Computer | 2024/12/07 |
| World Languages | The Spanish words aguacate, tomate, and peyote - meaning avocado, tomato, and peyote - are derived from what Central American language? | Nahuatl | 2025/01/08 |
| Terminology | What name is given to an anagram in which the created word or phrase has the opposite meaning of the original word? | Antigram *An example of an antigram is 'inferno' and 'non fire' | 2025/02/12 |
Language - 2 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lanaguages | What are the two official languages of Chad? | 1. Arabic 2. French | 2024/05/10 |
| Māori | Written using the Latin alphabet, what are the two digraphs - those being two letters written together to represent a sound - that appear in the modern Māori written alphabet? | 1. Wh 2. Ng *Wh is similar to the English ‘f’ sound. Ng sounds like the ng in ‘singer’. | 2024/12/19 |
Language - 4 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| French | What are the words for the four compass points - namely north, east, south, and west - in the French language? | 1. Nord 2. Est 3. Sud 4. Ouest | 2024/12/07 |
| German | Which four months of the year are spelt the same in the German language as they are in English? | 1. April 2. August 3. September 4. November | 2025/03/01 |
Language - 5 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Words | Excluding ‘non-word’ categories (such as abbreviations, interjections, prefixes and suffixes, proper nouns, modern slang, and Old English variants), as well as plurals, what are the five words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary that start with the letter p and include none of the five vowels A, E, I, O, and U? | 1. Ply 2. Pry 3. Psych 4. Pygmy 5. Pyx | 2025/01/09 |
Language - 6 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabets | When spelt out using the Roman alphabet - as in α being a-l-p-h-a - what are the six letters of the Greek alphabet that contain the letter ‘o’? | 1. Epsilon 2. Iota 3. Omicron 4. Ro (rho) 5. Upsilon (ypsilon) 6. Omega | 2024/11/14 |
Language - 10 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexicography | According to the Oxford English Corpus, what are the ten most common English words found in writing? | 1. the 2. be 3. to 4. of 5. and 6. a 7. in 8. that 9. have 10. I | 2023/04/20 |