Language - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabets | How many letters comprise the modern Greek alphabet? | 24 | 2023/04/20 |
| Old English | What is the modern English translation of the archaic word 'rood', as seen in the title of the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood and the site of Scotland's parliament, Holyrood? (1 point) | Cross / Crucifix | 2024/04/03 |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |