Showing posts with label Word Meanings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word Meanings. Show all posts
2/13/12
A Testy Fellow
Labels:
2010s,
African American,
athelete,
Basketball,
Borrowed Words,
Foreign Words,
Professional Sports,
Ridiculous,
Sports,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
1/9/12
Happy New Year
Labels:
Ancient,
Europe,
Italy,
Latin,
Mediterranean,
Pagan,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
Who is the month of January named after?
12/7/11
Old-timey Units of Measure
Labels:
History,
Math,
Scale,
Size Matters,
Trivia,
Units,
Word Meanings
What unit of Land Measure is technically defined as 1 furlong wide by 1 chain long?
8/1/11
Pronounced: new MIZ ma tist
Labels:
Big Words,
Hobby,
Money,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
What does a numismatist collect?
5/3/11
Mess Of What, Now?
Labels:
Ancient,
Big Words,
Borrowed Words,
Greek,
History,
Toponyms,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
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"Mesopotamia" is a Greek toponym meaning "[the land] between the rivers." What 2 rivers form the borders for this region?
3/8/11
Nice To Meat You
Labels:
Christianity,
Dinner,
Pagan,
Pope,
Religion,
Saints,
Word Meanings
10/21/10
It Has A Flag and Everything
Labels:
Europe,
Foreign Policy,
Foreign Words,
Portmanteau,
Titles,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
What 3 European countries make up the region know as "Benelux"?
8/20/10
The Dots Keep Marching 1 By 1, Hurrah, Hurrah.
Labels:
1960s,
Art,
Computers,
Hybrid Words,
Little Words,
Photography,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
Designating a single point in a raster image (aka bitmap, aka continuos-tone image), the word "pixel" is a shortened version of what 2 word phrase?
8/10/10
A Who's Who Kind of Question
Labels:
Borrowed Words,
Foreign Words,
French,
Language,
Titles,
Translation,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
Name an example of someone who uses (or used) a nom de plume?
(hint: your answer will have 2 parts)
7/6/10
Money Problem
Labels:
1500s,
Borrowed Words,
Currency,
Europe,
Germany,
History,
Money,
Word Meanings
The name of what currency comes from the German word "Thaler" meaning valley?
5/25/10
The Study of What?
Labels:
Big Words,
Health,
Initials,
Science,
Sounds Dirty,
Titles,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
What is the more common name for an otolaryngologist?
5/21/10
Out of the frying Pangram into the fire.
Labels:
Big Words,
Language,
Size Matters,
Sounds Dirty,
Taxonomy,
Trivia,
Word Meanings
A Pangram is a special type of sentence that contains what?
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