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English 100 Public

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What’s the capital of Norway?

Oslo

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What’s the meaning of mead?

honey wine

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What’s the term used for a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters?

anagram

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What was Scrabble’s original name in the 1930s?

Lexiko

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What popular board game was invented during the Great Depression by architect Alfred Mosher Butts who couldn’t find work?

Scrabble

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Who wrote the 1818-novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus?

Mary Shelley

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The term for a false name used to conceal one's identity or an assumed name is…?

alias

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What is the term for a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity (pen name/ nom de plume)?

pseudonym

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What pseudonym/pen name did Mary Ann Evans use?

George Eliot

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In legal proceedings, the pseudonyms John Doe, Jane Doe, Richard Roe, and Jane Roe are used in when …?

A person’s name is being kept anonymous

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What term defines a familiar, pet, or derisory name given to a person, animal, or place?

nickname

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What is any foodstuff that has been genetically modified called?

Frankenstein food

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What people were the ones who decided on a seven-day week, and they named five of the days for planets, and one each for the sun and for the moon?

Babylonians

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Who was the Roman goddess that personified the moon?

Luna

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Sol (Sun) and Mani (Moon) form a sister and brother pair in what mythology?

Norse

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Tuesday is named for a one-handed war god named …?

Tiw

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