1. What term describes a snatch of song or music that keeps playing itself in one’s mind?
Earworm
2. Established in 2000 and referred to as African Booker, what is the annual award for African writing?
The Caine Prize
3. What are aerological days?
Days agreed upon internationally to carry out intensive observation of the earth’s atmsosphere.
4. What parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars found in certain parts of Nepal is highly prized as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine?
Yarchagumba
5. What style of novel writing actually describes a real-life story thinly disguised as fiction?
Roman à clef
6. What medical term describes the condition of excessive body hair?
Hypertrichosis or Werewolf Syndrome
7. What or who is the Tasmanian Devil
The largest carnivorous marsupial which is found in the wild only in the Australian island state of Tasmania
8. What substance is responsible for the yellow colour of turmeric?
Curcumin
9. What kind of commercial fishing technique uses hundreds of baited hooks strung out on a single line?
Longlining
10. What term in linguistics describes a word or phrase that is borrowed from another language by literal word to word translation?
Calque
Earworm
2. Established in 2000 and referred to as African Booker, what is the annual award for African writing?
The Caine Prize
3. What are aerological days?
Days agreed upon internationally to carry out intensive observation of the earth’s atmsosphere.
4. What parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars found in certain parts of Nepal is highly prized as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine?
Yarchagumba
5. What style of novel writing actually describes a real-life story thinly disguised as fiction?
Roman à clef
6. What medical term describes the condition of excessive body hair?
Hypertrichosis or Werewolf Syndrome
7. What or who is the Tasmanian Devil
The largest carnivorous marsupial which is found in the wild only in the Australian island state of Tasmania
8. What substance is responsible for the yellow colour of turmeric?
Curcumin
9. What kind of commercial fishing technique uses hundreds of baited hooks strung out on a single line?
Longlining
10. What term in linguistics describes a word or phrase that is borrowed from another language by literal word to word translation?
Calque
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