Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  Who or what is Esperanto?

2)  The Thirty Year War was fought on this continent.

3)  Which bird lays its eggs in a nother bird's nest?

4)  Marie Antioinette was born in this country.

Answers:

1)  Esperanto is a constructed language, created with the intent of having a language that could be used universally.
From Wikipedia: "As a constructed language, Esperanto is not genealogically related to any ethnic language. It has been described as 'a language lexically predominantly Romance, morphologically intensively agglutinative, and to a certain degree isolating in character.'  The phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and semantics are based on the western Indo-European languages. The phonemic inventory is essentially Slavic, as is much of the semantics, while the vocabulary derives primarily from the Romance languages, with a lesser contribution from the Germanic languages and minor contributions from Slavic languages and Greek." 

2)  Europe

3)  The cuckoo

4)  Austria

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