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Its All Greek To Me

Created by flem-ish

Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Borrowed Words and Phrases
Its All Greek To Me game quiz
"When scholars and scientists need new terminology they often draw on Latin and Greek, which may give outsiders the feeling they dont dare to call a spade a spade .E.g. a simple ear infection = 'otitis'. This quiz deals with such 'creations'."

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1. What part of the body has been infected when doctors speak of 'phrenitis'?
    bladder
    brain
    kidneys
    skin


2. What sort of people would you call 'latitudinarians'?
    those who are broad and liberal in their standards of religious beliefs and conduct
    people who consider that your physical posture during prayer is an essential
    people with ballooning bellies
    people living exactly on a specific latitude


3. What is typical of lucipetal plants?
    they move with the sun
    they move away from light
    they move away from the sun
    they move towards light


4. What do balneophiles collect?
    headscarves and bandannas
    shells found on beaches
    beachballs
    pics of beachgirls in swimsuits


5. What is a chartographer?
    somebody who writes about the charts
    somebody who draws maps
    somebody who has an obsessive tendency to send picture postcards
    somebody who predicts the future by means of tarot cards


6. What do bombcynophiles like to store and collect?
    silk
    ships in bottles
    bombs
    dogs


7. What is pantagamy ?
    sick tendency to steal panties
    being married to five spouses at a time
    community marriage in which every woman is married to every man, and vice versa
    excessive passion to play games


8. What is meant by 'agamy' ?
    marriage without sexual intercourse
    not being married
    inability to have children
    hatred against marriage


9. What's a somnambulist?
    a sleepwalker
    musician who plays the somnambula, a medieval type of flute
    a rope-dancer
    person suffering from sleeping-problems


10. Which of these qualifications would Christian theologians not attribute to the supreme Creator?
    omniscient
    omnipresent
    omnivore
    omnipotent


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