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 |
| English | If the numbers one to ten are spelt out consecutively and without spaces, thus creating a sequence of 39 letters, what three letter word appears twice in the sequence of letters? | Net *Net appears in ‘onetwo’ and ‘nineten’. | 2025/05/12 |
| German | What is the English translation of the German phrase ‘donner und blitz’? | Thunder and lightning | 2025/11/10 |
| 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 |
| Slang | In British slang, what type of animal is used to mean £500? | Monkey | 2025/03/10 |
| 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 |
| Punctuation | Although technically a different symbol, the solidus resembles what other punctuation mark? | Slash | 2025/05/08 |
| Text Language | In text messaging parlance, for what three-word phrase does the number 143 stand, the digits representing the number of letters in each word? | I love you | 2025/03/10 |
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 |
| Anagram | The UK’s Prime Minister is Keir Starmer. What are the two anagrams of the word ‘Starmer’? | 1. Smarter 2. Armrest | 2025/02/24 |
Language - 3 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Techniques | According to Aristotle’s Rhetoric, what are the three modes of persuasion? | 1. Ethos 2. Logos 3. Pathos *Ethos is appealing to a person’s ethics, and includes the use of expert authority. Logos is the appealing to a person’s logic, and pathos is the appealing to a person’s emotions. | 2025/02/24 |
Language - 4 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet | Which four letters of the alphabet have both vertical and horizontal axes of symmetry when in their upper case form? | 1. H 2. I 3. O 4. X | 2025/03/17 |
| 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 |