Nationality Words In Idioms

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1. Being absent without permission may be called:___________ leave? Italian Welsh Irish French

2. Some nationality adjectives may refer to specific 'local recipes'. What is for instance the name for a hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage-meat, which is then fried and ultimately served as either a cold or a hot platter? Scotch egg Chinese egg Russian egg American egg

3. What kind of twins are "congenitally" united by part of their bodies? Italian twins Siamese twins Indian twins Vietnamese twins

4. Both "melancholia" and "rickets" have been called the __________ disease. English African Spanish Italian

5. One of the Scandinavian nations gave us a system of therapeutic muscular exercise which is known world-wide as _________________ gymnastics ? Danish Finnish Swedish Norwegian

6. Rubella or 3-day measles is also known as the ___________ measles. Austrian Polish Swiss German

7. A certain deep blue pigment, based on ferric ferrocyanid, is usually called ____________ blue? Prussian Mexican Russian Chinese

8. What is the name for a period of dry, surprisingly warm weather usually with hazy conditions, occurring in autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and often following a first bout of killing frost? Indian summer Pennsylvanian summer American summer Canadian summer

9. The kiwifruit has been called the "Chinese gooseberry", a certain type of dog has been called a "Danish dog", but what is the other name for the jaguar? Indonesian tiger African tiger American tiger Chinese tiger

10. In olden times armies already used "arms of mass destruction". A certain technique of naval warfare consisted in hurling from siphons, a kind of liquid fire on to enemy ships; this burning fuel then set the ships ablaze. What was the term used for such fire - which had already been invented in 8th century? Greek fire Chinese fire Arab fire Turkish fire