Wednesday, December 03, 2008

[classic language quiz] five simple questions


1. Hoi polloi means what in Greek?

2. The expression vox populi, the voice of the people, is often followed by which other vox?

3. Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso) was a character in a film by Federico Fellini. Which film? This is the origin of the term paparazzi.

4. Which Latin adjective is sometimes inserted in mea culpa to emphasize the point, so that it reads, roughly, as "my most grievous fault"?

5. Procrustean means an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced. The name, referring to a character from Greek mythology, means the ________ .


Answers are here.

2 comments:

  1. Hmmmm... I only correctly answered 2 of the 5. 40& isn't a passing grade!

    Thanks for stretching my mind a bit.

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