quizballs 182 - diversity/words quiz 1 - questions & answers
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This quiz illustrates the diversity of the English-speaking world. The words in the answers came into the English language from different languages. They reflect cultural diversity - people of different nationalities and ethnicities, etc., mixing together, and often adopting cultural behaviours as well as the language. This is a Businessballs Quizballs free quiz. Quizballs provides free quiz questions and answers for trivia quizzes, team games, pub quizzes, general knowledge, learning and amusement. Use the quiz and questions and answers to suit your purposes, either as a stand-alone quiz, or to cut and paste to make your own quizzes. Quizballs accepts no liability for any arguments, lost bets, or otherwise unfortunate consequences arising from any errors contained in these quizzes although quite a lot of effort is made to ensure that questions are clear and answers are correct. Please notify us of any errors, or questions or answers requiring clarification. These quizzes are free to use in pub quizzes, trivia quizzes, organisational events and team-building, but are not to be sold or published, which includes not posting them on other websites, thank you. Below are the quiz answers. Here are the quiz questions without answers. Spelling note: Some UK-English and US-English spellings may vary, notably words ending in our/or, and ise/ize. Where appropriate please change the spellings to suit your local situation. Corrections to quizzes are shown on the Quizballs index page - see Quizballs corrections. |
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quizballs 182 - free language diversity and general knowledge quiz - questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
Two answers are required for each question -
- the 'non-English' word that was adopted into English, and
- the language from which it came (directly into English)
How many do you know? Some of the source languages are surprising.
- Dust or camouflage colour or material? Khaki - Urdu (official language of Pakistan - also ancient in India, influenced by Persian and Arabic - Khaki derives originally from kak, Persian for dust)
- Specialized raiding party soldier? Commando - Portuguese (originally referred to Boers in S Africa)
- Fondness for travel? Wanderlust - German
- View, and replacement windows? Vista - Italian (meaning view, from visto, seen - Vista was also a not especially successful replacement for Microsoft's Windows computer operating system)
- Slaughterhouse? Abattoir - French (from abbattre, meaning to fell or cut down)
- Cross symbol with loop for top element? Ankh - Egyptian (meaning life or soul - the symbol resembles a person)
- Returning hunting weapon? Boomerang - Aboriginal (native Australian)
- Business magnate, originally 'great prince'? Tycoon - Japanese (came into Japanese from Chinese 'da jun')
- Gambling house? Casino - Italian (originally a public meeting room or summer house)
- Hot Indian curry thought to refer originally to 'wine garlic sauce'? Vindaloo - Portuguese (probably from 'vin d'alho', wine and garlic [sauce])
- Popular animated movie and personal web pic? Avatar - Sanskrit (less correctly Indian or Hindu - Sanskrit is the ancient Indo-European language, used in Indian Hindu and classical writings, which persists today in Indian religious and scholarly work - Avatar meant originally away and pass over, and more recently means embodiment)
- Dance event or nightclub? Disco or fully Discotheque - French (originally referred to a record library)
- The Virgin Mary? Madonna - Italian (meaning 'my lady')
- Firm imposed instruction or resolution? Diktat - German
- Whirlpool or great turbulence? Maelstrom - Dutch (from maalen, grind or whirl around)
- Vast Arctic mashlands with underlying permafrost? Tundra - Lappish (Lapps - now called Sami or Saami - are the indigenous people from the extreme north of Europe including parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, a region referred to now as Sápmi)
- Racial segregation? Apartheid - Afrikaans (or more loosely and slightly less correctly South African, it means literally 'apart-hood')
- Small one-person closed watertight canoe? Kayak - Inuit (or less politically correct, Eskimo)
- Small four-stringed guitar? Ukulele - Hawaiian (it means 'jumping flea')
- Unexpected good fortune or prosperous success? Bonanza - Spanish (technically US-Spanish - originally meaning fair weather or prosperity)
See also:
Quizballs 184 diversity/words general knowledge quiz 2
Quizballs 185 diversity/words general knowledge quiz 3
quizballs 182 - free quiz questions only for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
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