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This week's quiz contains 20 questions on "Foreign Phrases."

  1. With which country do you associate the motto 'E pluribus unum'?

  2. Which item was sometimes kept as 'Memento mori'?

  3. Which order of chivalry was founded with the words 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'?

  4. Who said 'Veni, vidi, vici' and of what occasion?

  5. What is meant by 'Mens sana in corpore sano'?

  6. What would you be doing if you acted ultra vires?

  7. What does the phrase 'Borgen macht sorgen' mean?

  8. What is schadenfreude?

  9. Which military body has the motto 'Per Ardua ad Astra'?

  10. What does the expression 'O tempora! O mores!' mean?

  11. What is the Latin expression which means 'So passes away earthly glory'?

  12. Where would you hear the expression 'Faites vos jeux!'?

  13. What is meant by the saying 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'?

  14. What is the meaning of the expression 'Delenda est Carthago'?

  15. What is the meaning of the philosophical proposition 'Congito, ergo sum'?

  16. What does the instruction 'Divide et impera' mean?

  17. How would you translate 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'?

  18. The Chinese greeting 'Hen jiu, bu jian' is sometimes used in the English language. What is the translation?

  19. What did Archimedes mean when he shouted, 'Eureka!'?

  20. What does 'Gott mit uns' mean?

 

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