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dubdobdee ([personal profile] dubdobdee) wrote2016-01-10 10:10 am
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q14

14: The etymology of which country’s name:

i: rules out mendacity?
ii: describes littoral wealth?
iii: suggests sacred insularity?
iv: recalls the Dude’s favourite cocktail?
v: shows the long reach of a Basque windmill?
vi: misrenders the name of an East India Company captain?
vii: derives from pachydermal slaughter?
viii: derives from crustacean abundance?
ix: warns of shallow waters?
x: has lunar connections?

COMPLETE: confirms needed for viii and x!

[identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com 2016-01-10 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
LOL the schoolboys are surely used to getting NUL PUNKT on the unseen test and then again NUL PUNKT on the cribbed test (since all the looking up happens over the xmas holidays, ie none happens)

[identity profile] ruudboy.livejournal.com 2016-01-10 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought what actually happened was that the parents do all the looking up?