This week's quiz
Across
- 2. What word, originating from Mandarin Chinese, is used to describe bowing with your forehead touching the floor, and is often used by English speakers as a term for unearned deference?
- 3. What is water that is safe to drink referred to as
- 5. Which Greek dip is made from strained or diluted yoghurt mixed with cucumber, garlic, salt, olive oil and often vinegar, lemon juice or herbs?
- 7. Which Italian term, literally meaning 'to entangle or confuse' is often used in English to describe a situation with a lot of people that is very confusing, such as a mass brawl or fight?
- 10. What recently adopted German word has been adopted into English which is used to describe delight in another's suffering?
- 11. What German word is used to describe a current trend which literally means 'spirit of the time'?
- 12. Which medical emergency term stems from the French verb meaning "to separate"?
- 13. What French term for duck can also be used in English to mean an extravagant or absurd story?
- 14. what word is used by Americans to refer to what people in the UK call Coriander?
Down
- 1. Often used in cocktails, what fruit would you get the syrup grenadine from
- 4. Eccles cakes are named after an English town in which county
- 6. In Shakespeare, which country was Hamlet the prince of
- 8. If you are diagnosed with Coeliac disease, which protein are you unable to eat?
- 9. What German word is sometimes used in lieu of saying 'bless you' after someone sneezes?
- 10. Which Swedish word is a term for a buffet-style meal with a selection of hot and cold dishes?