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1. What is the link between the word drawing-room and 'drawing'?
2. What linguistic link is there between 'a fundamentalist', 'a fund-raiser' and 'a foundering ship'?
3. True or false? The term 'tonnage' comes from the number of casks or barrels(tuns) a ship could store ?
4. Which Italian word means small and can either be a small flute or a 'small waiter' (lift-boy) ?
5. What sort of protection would an umbrella give you if the word were still used in its original historical sense?
6. A dumpling is a pudding , more or less globular and generally enclosing fruit. Which character from a nursery-rhyme - quoted by Alice - is also 'short and thick' and traditionally represented as an egg?
7. Which of these herbs has a link with the sea in its name itself?
8. What kind of berry may have derived the first part of its name from an alternative form of the French groseille: 'gozel' to which -berry was added?
9. What (apart from the similarity of the consonant-pattern) is the similarity in meaning between 'to grin' and 'to groan'?
10. What is the link between a penguin and the Yorkshire Peak Pen-y-Ghent?
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