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1. Dry sherry is sometimes called 'sack'. What is the widely accepted origin of this term?
2. What is the link between the words salami, salad, salsa, sauce and the modern word salary?
3. Which of the following words is the only one not to have a common origin with the words skill, scalp and scalpel?
4. Wagner's opera 'Die Nibelungen' deals with Germanic heroes who called themselves The Children of what?
5. The famous Indian 'Mahabharata' is one of the great stories in world-literature. Bharata was the name of the dominant tribes in North India and Punjab. Because of the development of the caste system it came to stand for "true humans" in general. What does the whole name mean?
6. Given names are often meant as secret wishes as to what a child should be like. Alas for parents, children themselves usually care a lot more about the petnames they get, rather than about the original meanings of their first names. Few girls who get the name Melissa ever realise they have been called which of these?
7. The woman who wiped off Jesus' face on his way to Calvary got a name in Roman-Catholic tradition which is Greek for 'truthful icon or image'. What is that name?
8. When at a given moment in 1498 during one of his trips to the Americas, Columbus sighted land and thought he saw three islands, he soon realised that what he he saw it was only ONE island with THREE mountains, so three-in-one. In the pious tradition of the times he baptised the land after the Holy Trinity and called it what?
9. When G.B. Shaw founded the famous Fabian Society, not everybody will have immediately understood what he meant by that name. Where was it from ?
10. Names can also be re-interpreted. Because of the abbreviation o.f.m. some people jokingly call the Friars Minor 'the friars without manners' (from German 'Ohne feine Maniere'). O.s.b. led to the Benedictines being nicknamed 'Ohne sonstige Beschaeftigung': 'Without any other business (than praying)'.
Which of the following religious orders got a cruel Latin nickname meaning 'God's bloodhounds' because of their involvement in the Un-holy Inquisition?
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