Thursday’s quiz

While I’m blogging lighter you are welcome to pose the questions with no need to follow the five-question formula I used.

Anyone who stumps everyone will win a virtual bunch of peonies.

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7 Responses to Thursday’s quiz

  1. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    03/12/2015 at 12:44 pm

    (1) Where would you read of the “Tower of Babel”?

    (2) In what part of the world was the Glagolitic alphabet used? In what context would you most likely encounter it today?

    (3) What people speak the Magyar language?

    (4) What would be the most likely mother tongue of a Walloon?

    (5) Where is the Iron dialect spoken and what language family group does it belong to?

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  2. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    03/12/2015 at 2:08 pm

    1) The book of Genesis, in the bible
    2) Pass
    3) Hungarians
    4) French
    5) Pass

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  3. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    03/12/2015 at 2:34 pm

    1) Which band released the song “Outlook for Thursday”?

    2) Which fictional character said “It must be thursday, I never could get the hang of thursdays” , and in which book did he appear?

    3) In old Norse, what does the rune Thurs translate to?

    4) What biblical event is commerated on Maundy Thursday?

    5) Thursday is associated with the god Thor in the Germanic/Anglosaxon language family – With which god is it associated in the Romance languages?

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  4. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    03/12/2015 at 2:54 pm

    (1) Its Dave Dobbyn through and through – was it DD Smash?

    (2)

    (3) Th or the Greek letter θ

    (4) The Last Supper

    (5) Jupiter or Jove

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  5. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    03/12/2015 at 3:05 pm

    Arghh – I should have been more precise –

    Q.3 (or maybe Q.6) What is the meaning of the Old Norse rune/word “THURS”

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  6. Teletext's avatar Teletext says:
    03/12/2015 at 8:35 pm

    Andrei

    1. Book of Genesis, Holy Bible

    2. It was the earliest Slavic alphabet. I think the only users of it now are the Croats in church services

    3. Hungarians although many other languages have similarities, one being Korean.

    4. Mostly Belgium but also some parts of Northern France

    5. Pretty sure it is from the Caucasus, possibly Ossetia or parts of the Ukraine. It is part of the Indo/Iranian family of languages

    J Bloggs

    1. DD Smash

    2. Arthur Dent The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Arthur was the answer to another of your questions recently. Whys don’t you do more with Ford Prefect?

    3. Depending upon who’s telling the story, it has many meanings, giant, danger, suffering, conflict and so on

    4. The Last Supper

    5. Jupiter

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  7. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    04/12/2015 at 8:02 am

    Teletext – Ford Prefect was the answer to the last HHGG question, not Arthur

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