Loaded Questions 9/8/22 - Language
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Happy Thursday everyone! Congrats to LQ subscriber Patrick Friel on becoming the 2022 LearnedLeague Champion, and congrats to all other subscribers who made the finals in the first place! No doubt that the research I’ve put in for this newsletter helped me in the LLRC, but the work doesn’t end. Now to keep pumping out questions and eventually write the 48 questions before I see them next year! And, I’ll be posting a lot of those questions here. Enjoy our language questions today!
1. What French phrase is used to describe something that is essentially a done deal?
2. The two principal parts of Latin nouns are the nominative singular and the what singular? It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
3. Brontology is the study of what phenomenon?
4. What sacred language of Theravada Buddhism names a "canon" of three works, the Abhidamma, Sutta, and Vinaya, which are "baskets" of this language, also known as the Tripitaka?
5. What three-letter word names the Old English letter æ?
6. What the umlaut represents a sound shift, what diacritical mark that is also two dots is used on a vowel to denote that the vowel is pronounced on its own?
7. What German word is used to describe a fan of bowling?
8. What language saw a revivalist movement during the 19th century with the Renaixença?
9. Often contrasted with semantics, what branch of linguistics studies how context affects meaning?
10. The quote "Talitha Kum", meaning "Maiden, I say to you, arise" is from what language?
11. While English is the official language of Nigeria, name two of the three most common regional languages spoken in Nigeria.
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1. What French phrase is used to describe something that is essentially a done deal?
Fait accompli
2. The two principal parts of Latin nouns are the nominative singular and the what singular? It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
Genitive singular
3. Brontology is the study of what phenomenon?
Thunder
4. What sacred language of Theravada Buddhism names a "canon" of three works, the Abhidamma, Sutta, and Vinaya, which are "baskets" of this language, also known as the Tripitaka?
Pali
5. What three-letter word names the Old English letter æ?
Ash
6. What the umlaut represents a sound shift, what diacritical mark that is also two dots is used on a vowel to denote that the vowel is pronounced on its own?
Diaeresis
7. What German word is used to describe a fan of bowling?
Kegler
8. What language saw a revivalist movement during the 19th century with the Renaixença?
Catalan language
9. Often contrasted with semantics, what branch of linguistics studies how context affects meaning?
Pragmatics
10. The quote "Talitha Kum", meaning "Maiden, I say to you, arise" is from what language?
Aramaic
11. While English is the official language of Nigeria, name two of the three most common regional languages spoken in Nigeria.
Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba