English vocabulary

Question 1

Terms like ballet, café, and genre mainly come from which language?

Accepted Answer

French

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German

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Italian

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Spanish

Question 2

In tennis scoring, what does the word love mean?

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Zero

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Deuce

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Thirty

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Fifteen

Question 3

Which 1066 event heavily reshaped Britain's law-and-government terminology?

Accepted Answer

Norman Conquest

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Wars of the Roses

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Glorious Revolution

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Peasants’ Revolt

Question 4

The word bungalow traces back to houses in which historic region?

Accepted Answer

Bengal

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Bohemia

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Bavaria

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Brittany

Question 5

Which writer has first recorded uses of bedazzled and swagger?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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John Milton

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Charles Dickens

Question 6

What does the acronym scuba originally stand for?

Accepted Answer

Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

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Surface-Controlled Underwater Buoyancy Aid

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Submerged Communications and Buoyancy Assembly

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Safety-Certified Underwater Breathing Adapter

Question 7

In golf, which bird-related term means three under par on a hole?

Accepted Answer

Albatross

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Birdie

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Condor

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Eagle

Question 8

Which Italian tempo marking means at a walking pace?

Accepted Answer

Andante

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Allegro

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Adagio

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Presto

Question 9

Which SI prefix means one trillionth in scientific terms?

Accepted Answer

Femto

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Micro

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Nano

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Pico

Question 10

Which 2015 Oxford Dictionaries choice was a pictograph, not a written term?

Accepted Answer

Face with Tears of Joy

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Red Heart

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Thumbs Up

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Fire