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100

Which author wrote both 1984 and Animal Farm?

Who is George Orwell?

100

Which planet has the largest moon in our solar system?

What is Jupiter?

100

What does the French expression déjà vu literally mean?

What is already seen?

100

Which language uses the Hangul writing system?

What is Korean?

100

English belongs to which branch of the Indo-European language family?


What is Germanic?

200

In The Great Gatsby, what is Gatsby's first name?


What is Jay?

200

What is the chemical symbol for tungsten?

What is W?

200

What does the Japanese word komorebi describe?

What is sunlight filtering through leaves?

200

Which Romance language is the primary official language of Brazil?

What is Portuguese?

200

What is the term for a word adopted from another language?

What is a loanword?

300

Which Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment?

Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?

300

Which ancient civilization developed cuneiform writing?

Who are the Sumerians?

300

What does the Spanish phrase sobremesa refer to?

What is time spent talking at the table after a meal?

300

Which language uses the characters ありがとう for thank you?

What is Japanese?

300

What is the study of the origins and historical development of words called?

What is etymology?

400

Which novel features the fictional country of Panem?

What is The Hunger Games?

400

Which chess piece can jump over other pieces?

What is the knight?

400

What does the German word Schadenfreude mean?

What is pleasure at another person's misfortune?

400

Which language has four main lexical tones and a neutral tone in its standard variety?

What is Chinese (Mandarin)?

400

Which ancient language is the ancestor of Spanish, French, and Italian?

What is Latin?

500

What is the title of the first novel in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 trilogy?

What is 1Q84? (Trick question: 1Q84 is the title of the whole novel, published in three books.)

500

What is the only mammal capable of sustained powered flight?

What is a bat?

500

What does the Latin idiom “Aquila non capit muscas” mean

An eagle does not catch flies.

500

Which language is commonly written using both the Devanagari script and a Perso-Arabic script, depending on its standardized variety?

What is Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu)?

500

What is the linguistic term for switching between languages within a conversation?


What is code-switching?