- What is Obsolagnium?
The lack of sexual desire that accompanies old age.
- What is the literary term used to describe a genre of novel that traces the growth of its protagonist from childhood to maturity?
Bildungsroman
- What word describes an abnormal fear of crowds?
Ochlophobia
- What term coined by anthropologist Edward Hall describes the set measurable distances between people as they interact?
Proxemics
- Which word commonly defined as ‘code of silence’ typifies a way of life in parts of
Omerta
- What is the name given to the biological process that maintains an internal equilibrium in the living organism?
Homeostatic Process
- It has no official universal name, but is known in several languages by different words – klammeraffe, grisehale, kissanhnta, dalphaengi, apenstaartje – each of them associated with an animal. What is it?
The symbol @
- What is dactylonomy?
Counting using one’s fingers
- What is the term for the portion of wine or any other spirit that is lost by evaporation during the process of aging in barrels?
Angel’s Share
- By what tradition of inheritance is the entire estate of the parents handed down to the first born son?
Primogeniture
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