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Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #03 -- Let's Talk a Little Romance"
Answers = C - A - B
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For tonight's Net, we have a Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions about one of your favorite topics: the Romance Languages!
No, not hot, raspy suggestions whispered into the ear of your beloved, but those kind of languages we know as French, Spanish, Italian, etc.
Today, more than 800 million native-speakers talk in one of the many, yet diverse, Romance languages.
The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family -- more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily (yawn!) -- comprising all the languages that descend from the common, everyday language of ancient Rome (from the end of the first century BC).
So just put your feet up or take off your snow-shoes, pour yourself a little cabernet or open that box of Valentine Day chocolates (afterall, VD is still 3 Fridays away), and get ready to check-in with your answers.
OK, so how much do you know (quantus operor vos teneo) about the Romance languages?
Please give us your best answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question.
++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #03 -- Let's Talk a Little Romance" ++
Question #1: What was the name of the original Roman language that the Romance languages descended from?
A. Aqua vitae, or
B. Aqua velva, or
C. Vulgar Latin
Question #2: Today, according to some language experts, how many of the modern, standardized Romance languages are classified as being those most widely spoken?
A. 6, or
B. 25, or
C. more than 25
Question 3: Of the three languages mentioned below, which is NOT a Romance language?
A. Romansh, or
B. Kardashian, or
C. Piedmontese
[SOURCE: Thanks to Diana (Daniel [KL7WM]'s XYL), Romance Languages by Allison June Barlow Chaney, Princeton University (below)]
Romance languages (1,2,3)
Aqua Velva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1)
Vulgar Latin (1)
News for kardashian (3)
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++ QUOTEs OF THE DAY ++
"In Vino Veritas (“In wine, there is truth”)" -- Gaius Plinius Secundus, aka "Pliny the Elder" (~1 AD)
. [SOURCE: LW's Super-Stupid Quotes Book]
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Posted 2014-01-25 03:20
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Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #03 -- Let's Talk a Little Romance"
Answers = C - A - B
Results:
3
Correct = 72 (CAB=72) 57.6% of 125 contacts
2 Correct = 29 (AAB=13,BAB=1,CAA=7,CAC=1,CBB=3,CCB=4)
1 Correct = 14 (ABB=1,ACB=2,BBB=2,CCC=3)
0 Correct = 10 (ABA=1,ABC=3,ACA=6)
Check-in = 07
Total = 125
Called = 181
Total processed = 192 (Called+New inc emails)
New=11/Added=05(see
below)2 Correct = 29 (AAB=13,BAB=1,CAA=7,CAC=1,CBB=3,CCB=4)
1 Correct = 14 (ABB=1,ACB=2,BBB=2,CCC=3)
0 Correct = 10 (ABA=1,ABC=3,ACA=6)
Check-in = 07
Total = 125
Called = 181
Total processed = 192 (Called+New inc emails)
Good morning/evening, everybody! Thank you for joining us last night.
We hope you discovered something interesting during the time we spent together on the Insomniac Net last night.
-- The ever-delightful Shelley [KF7TBA] and LW [K7LWA]
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For tonight's Net, we have a Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions about one of your favorite topics: the Romance Languages!
No, not hot, raspy suggestions whispered into the ear of your beloved, but those kind of languages we know as French, Spanish, Italian, etc.
Today, more than 800 million native-speakers talk in one of the many, yet diverse, Romance languages.
The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family -- more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily (yawn!) -- comprising all the languages that descend from the common, everyday language of ancient Rome (from the end of the first century BC).
So just put your feet up or take off your snow-shoes, pour yourself a little cabernet or open that box of Valentine Day chocolates (afterall, VD is still 3 Fridays away), and get ready to check-in with your answers.
OK, so how much do you know (quantus operor vos teneo) about the Romance languages?
Please give us your best answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question.
++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #03 -- Let's Talk a Little Romance" ++
Question #1: What was the name of the original Roman language that the Romance languages descended from?
A. Aqua vitae, or
B. Aqua velva, or
C. Vulgar Latin
Question #2: Today, according to some language experts, how many of the modern, standardized Romance languages are classified as being those most widely spoken?
A. 6, or
B. 25, or
C. more than 25
Question 3: Of the three languages mentioned below, which is NOT a Romance language?
A. Romansh, or
B. Kardashian, or
C. Piedmontese
[SOURCE: Thanks to Diana (Daniel [KL7WM]'s XYL), Romance Languages by Allison June Barlow Chaney, Princeton University (below)]
Romance languages (1,2,3)
The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, Latin languages, Neolatin languages or Neo-Latin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome. There are more than 800 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas
and Europe, as well as many smaller regions scattered throughout the
world. Because of the extreme difficulty and varying methodology of
distinguishing among language, variety, and dialect, it is impossible to
count the number of Romance languages now in existence, but a
restrictive, arbitrary account can place the total at approximately 25.
In fact, the number is much larger, and many more existed previously.
Nowadays the six most widely spoken standardized Romance languages are Spanish/Castilian (about 500 million), Portuguese (about 240 million), French (about 250 million), Italian, Romanian, and Catalan. Among numerous other Romance languages are Corsican, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Lombard, Occitan, Gascon, Piedmontese, Aromanian, Sardinian, Sicilian, Venetian, Galician, Asturian, Neapolitan and Friulian.
BELOW: Comparing Romance languages (3):
Latin language, alphabet and pronunciation (1,2,3)BELOW: Comparing Romance languages (3):
| Sardinian | Romanian | Sicilian | Italian | Venetian | Lombard | Emilian | Piedmontese | Friulian | Romansh |
|---|
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|---|
Aqua Velva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1)
Vulgar Latin (1)
News for kardashian (3)
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++ QUOTEs OF THE DAY ++
"In Vino Veritas (“In wine, there is truth”)" -- Gaius Plinius Secundus, aka "Pliny the Elder" (~1 AD)
. [SOURCE: LW's Super-Stupid Quotes Book]
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KC6YJF Marc
KL7DA Doug
KF5ZBV Rob
KG7HJQ Tim
KX3L Riley
||| -- NEW This Week (11)
K7CIB Lance
KE6WMS Wiley
AA2V Don
K7PNW Jerry
KL3PW Andy
W7AJW Adam
KK6IHT Kyle
KL3GI Paul
KC0RYZ James
W7SOT Scott
KK6DSF Mathew
Posted 2014-01-25 03:20
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