Foreigners in the English Language

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Hint: c + 6 letters + w.- What English word for a type of salad derives from : a. Dutch kool (=cabbage ) b. Dutch sla (=salad)? Answer: (Written in one or in two words.)

2. Hint: b + 3 letters + o.- What term for an attractive but rather stupid (and esp. promiscuous ) young woman derives from the Italian word for baby: bambino ? Answer: (One Word)

3. Hint: d + 3 letters + e.- What tennis-term derives from the French word for 'two' ? Answer: (One Word)

4. Hint: n + 4 letters + r.- What name for a delicious drink derives from the Greek name of the favourite drink of the Gods on Mt Olympus ? Answer: (One Word)

5. Hint: h + 3 letters + s p + 3 letters + s .- What phrase used by jugglers and prestidigitators has ,possibly incorrectly and also possibly maliciously, been explained as a mangled form of the priest's phrase (during Holy Mass): 'Hoc est corpus' ? Answer: (Two Words)

6. Hint b + 6 letters + o. - The South-American vaquero or cowherd derives from Spanish vaca (cow).What is the American English term (denoting a cowboy )that derives from it ? Answer: (One Word)

7. Hint: a + 7 letters + y. - An amaranth is a never fading flower (from Greek anthos =flower). What term in literature for a 'collection of chosen pieces' also derives from that same Greek word 'anthos' ? Answer: (One Word)

8. Hint: M + 7 letters + a. - From the Greek nesos for island there developed such words as Polynesia (group of many islands) and Micronesia (group of very small islands). What is the similarly derived word that stands for 'group of black or dark islands ' ? Answer: (One Word)

9. Hint : A + 6 letters + s. What group of islands got its name from a combination of 'ante' or 'anti' (in front of ) and Portuguese ilha for island? Answer: (One Word)

10. Hint : c + 6 letters + c. - What religious term literally means 'spread across the whole world' and derives from, among other words, Greek kata and Greek holos. Answer: (One Word)