Wildcard Quiz #346
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Q1. What word is used in relation to an aircraft moving around an airport?
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Q2. This was used first as a spice by the Chinese, throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe, and was still popular in the 18th century as an ingredient in hot chocolate; what was it?
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Q3. What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
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Q4. First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?
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Q5. The term, "soccer", coined first in the 1880s in the UK to distinguish types of football comes from what?
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Q6. What is a florin?
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Q7. What purpose would groats NOT serve or have served?
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