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1. A standard 'bottle', especially for wine in this quiz, but also for other types of liquids, holds 1,25 pints or 0,75 litres. Most sources point to the word having entered English via Old French and ultimately from another language in which it meant 'little cask'. While you drink, does the name of the foreign language come to mind?
2. Wine can be kept in small bottles or huge bottles. For instance, you can't get much wine from a piccolo. In fact, it lives up to its Italian origin name of 'small'. What fraction of a standard bottle does it hold?
3. If the piccolo is too small and the standard bottle too big, what you have to reach for from the wine cabinet is called a demi or a fillette. What does the original word for 'fillette' mean?
4. When a standard bottle holds too little wine, next in line is the bottle with a volume of 1,5 litres. You are pouring your wine from a magnum. What is the meaning of magnum?
5. A Marie-Jeanne is strictly a term for a champagne bottle and not one holding wine. Three times the volume of a standard bottle, what is the more common name for this size of bottle?
6. Down the ages, kings are known to have been wine connoisseurs. For that reason, they may have needed larger bottles to store the delight of the vine. A king of Israel and a king of Judah hold four and six standard bottles respectively. Name the two kings.
7. Some people claim that wine in moderation may prolong your life. Perhaps if you finish off a bottle equal to eight standard bottles, you may live to become 969 years old. Name the Biblical patriarch who achieved that age.
8. While the Assyrian king Salmanazar has a bottle holding twelve standard bottles named after him and the Babylonian king Balthazar sixteen bottles, what might a Nebuchadnezzar hold?
9. The Three Wise Men in the Biblical Nativity story brought gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. According to the name of our next bottle, one of the kings had a large bottle to last him all the way on the journey from the east. Name the Wise Man in question.
10. Last of all comes the big daddies, ranging from 32 standard bottles to 36. "Van Lill's South African Miscellany" claims that the twenty-four litre bottle is also known by the name of an American singer. Who is the singer?
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