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1. 1Language › Word OriginsMediumWhat is the medical term for a rumbling stomach?Right2.3s+100
2. 2Language › Word OriginsMediumWhat is the medical term for hiccups?Wrong2.4s0
3. 3Language › Word OriginsMediumSneezing when stepping into bright sunlight has which jokey acronym name?Wrong4.1s0
4. 4Language › Word OriginsHardForget the tale of sculptors hiding cracks 'sine cera', without wax. 'Sincere' really comes from Latin sincerus, meaning what?Right4.2s+97
5. 5Language › Word OriginsHardOstracism comes from Athenians voting someone into exile by writing names on what?Wrong12.7s0
6. 6Language › Word OriginsHardMichelangelo's Moses has horns because a Hebrew verb was rendered 'horned' in Latin. What is it now read as meaning?Wrong2.1s0
7. 7Language › Idioms & PhrasesExpertFigurative uses of 'the whole nine yards' date back to at least which year, sinking the WWII ammunition-belt theory?Wrong1.6s0
8. 8Language › Word OriginsEasyCalling a miser a "Scrooge" comes from a character created by whom?Right0.4s+100
9. 9Language › Word OriginsEasyThe 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" names a lung disease caused by what?Right2.0s+100
10. 10Language › Word OriginsVery hardThe longest word in ancient Greek literature, coined by Aristophanes, names what?Right3.3s+98