Latin Word Meanings
Latin word: mora (noun)
English cognates: moratorium
What is delay?
An insect that cannot fly in the rain
What is a bee?
The Earth appears to be mostly this color if seen from space
What is blue?
Name the one who once stole Christmas
Who is the Grinch?
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it.
What is a secret?
Book in the Bible that is a collection of 150 songs and poems
What is the Book of Psalms?
Latin word: malus (adjective)
English cognates: malice, malicious, malign
What is bad, wicked, or evil?
The fastest land animal
What is a Cheetah?
A part of the world that has more than one common feature
What is a region?
Name that Christmas drink that is also known as milk punch
What is EggNog?
It is harder to catch the faster you run
What is your breath?
Religious leader’s teaching that consisted of four ‘Noble Truths’
What is Buddha?
Latin word: nihil (noun)
English cognates: nihilist, annihilate
What is nothing?
An animal that can do echo location with their ears
What is a bat?
You street address describes this kind of location
What is absolute location?
This is the name of Rudolph's elf friend in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
What is Hermey?
It gets whiter the dirtier it gets
What is a chalkboard?
A spiritual state after death where you build spiritual health to get ready for heaven
What is Purgatory?
Latin word: tolero (verb)
English cognates: tolerate, tolerance
What is to bear or to endure?
The fastest animal
What is a Falcon (Peregrine Falcon if being exact)?
(DAILY DOUBLE - PLACE WAGER)
Geographers want to know how and why people do this
What is move?
Where the McAllister's went for Christmas vacation in Home Alone
Where is Paris?
It is always in front of you but can't be seen.
What is the future?
Roman Emperor when Jesus was born
Who is Ceaser Augustus?
Latin word: terra (noun)
English cognates: terrestrial, territory
What is earth, ground, land, or country?
An animal that takes two weeks to digest its food
What is a sloth?
The study of earth's water
What is hydrology?
Country that started the custom of putting up a Christmas tree
What is Germany?
It has no beginning, end, or middle
What is a doughnut?
The holiest book of Judaism
What is the Torah?
(DAILY DOUBLE - PLACE WAGER)
Latin word: parvus (adjective)
English cognates: parvocellular, parvule
What is small or little?
Three birds that cannot fly
What is Emu, Ostriches, Penguins, Streamer Ducks, Kiwis, Kakapo, Cassowary, or Peacock?
Two basic types of satellite images
What is true color and infrared?
Name the most covered Christmas song of all time
What is Silent Night?
It goes up and never comes down
What is your age?
The third most followed religion
What is Hinduism?