Léxico 2

Question 1

Who introduced the binomial naming system used for species?

Accepted Answer

Carl Linnaeus

Answer

Louis Pasteur

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Charles Darwin

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Gregor Mendel

Question 2

Which country has French and English as official federal languages?

Accepted Answer

Canada

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Switzerland

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Belgium

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Ireland

Question 3

The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decipher which ancient writing system?

Accepted Answer

Egyptian hieroglyphs

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Cuneiform

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Linear B

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Mayan glyphs

Question 4

Which reference work's first complete edition was published in 1928?

Accepted Answer

Oxford English Dictionary

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Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Roget's Thesaurus

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Question 5

Which musical centers on phonetics lessons for flower seller Eliza Doolittle?

Accepted Answer

My Fair Lady

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West Side Story

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Hello, Dolly!

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The Sound of Music

Question 6

In tennis scoring, which traditional word represents zero points in a game?

Accepted Answer

Love

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Deuce

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Advantage

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Let

Question 7

Which Japanese script uses characters originally borrowed from Chinese writing?

Accepted Answer

Kanji

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Hiragana

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Katakana

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Hangul

Question 8

Which mysterious manuscript is famous for undeciphered writing and botanical illustrations?

Accepted Answer

Voynich Manuscript

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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Book of Kells

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Codex Sinaiticus

Question 9

Which organization maintains the standard assigning code points to written characters?

Accepted Answer

Unicode Consortium

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World Wide Web Consortium

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Internet Engineering Task Force

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

Question 10

Which planned language was created by L. L. Zamenhof in the 1880s?

Accepted Answer

Esperanto

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Volapük

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Klingon

Answer

Interlingua