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1. What is the English name for the Welsh island Ynys Mon?
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2. What is Murgh on an Indian restaurant menu?
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3. The pasta dish Fettuccini is Italian for which English word?
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4. Which pasta dish has an Italian name which translates as little worms?
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5. What language did the word macho originate from?
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6. What is the Latin word for water bearer?
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7. Beginning with the letter B, what is the Scottish word for child?
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8. What four-letter word for chief and head do Italians use to describe a Mafia leader?
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9. What language does the religious word Amen come from?
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10. Beginning with the letter K, what word describes something broken in German?
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11. What is the last letter in the Greek alphabet?
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12. A favorite with beauty pageant entrants, what does the Latin phrase pacem in terris mean?
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13. What two word description is Italian for first lady and often used in the Opera?
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14. What word for clergymen comes from a Latin word meaning worthy of respect?
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15. What Latin phrase did Robin Williams character emphasize to his students in the movie Dead Poets Society?
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16. What 1978 movie was released as Vaselina in Venezuela?.
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17. What famous Parisian street literally means Elysian Fields in English?
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18. What do locals call Florence?
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19. What Sudanese citys name literally means elephants trunk?
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20. What mountain ranges name is Sanskrit for abode of snow?
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21. Beginning with the letter P, what did North American Indians call a baby?
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22. What countries name is believed to have originated from the Huron-Iroquoian word Kanata meaning village or settlement?
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23. What is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet?
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24. What is the French term for High fashion?
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25. What country did the traditional mariachi dance originate from?
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26. The French gourmet dish escargot is made from which creature?
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27. What country does the rice and shellfish dish Paella originate from?
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28. What 1980s Latin dance craze was named after the Portuguese word meaning crack of a whip?
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29. What branch of biology derives from the Greek word oikos, meaning living-place?
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30. What part of a whale do you get if you ask for muktuk on an Eskimo menu?
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31. What does the Olympic motto Citrus, Altius, Fortius translate to in English?
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32. From what language did the word schmuck originate?
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33. From which modern language do we get the word lingerie?
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34. Nun, mem, shin, and yod are all letters of which alphabet?
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35. The word Libra is Latin for what?
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36. What does the Afrikaans word apartheid mean?
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37. What does the German word Volkswagen literally translate to in English?
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38. What does the Latin phrase Ad majorem Dei gloriam translate into English as?
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39. What French word describes the experience of thinking that a new situation has occurred before?
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40. What is the Gaelic word, often used to describe Shakespeare, for a combination musician, poet and singer who tells stories?
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41. What is the Spanish word for a broad-brimmed hat?
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42. What is the Spanish word for goodbye?
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43. What is the Swahili word for an overland journey by hunters?
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44. What Italian word for baked earth is now a common Australian building material.
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45. What Japanese word for suicide attack literally means divine wind?
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46. What language did the word guru originate from?
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47. What Malay word is now more often used by Americans ordering hotdogs than in Malaysia?
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48. What self-defence sport literally means gentle way in Japanese?
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49. What word comes from the Latin for cow, illustrating the role of the cowpox virus in the treatment of smallpox?
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50. What word for a type of entertainer literally means stomach-speaker in Latin?
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51. What word for a vagabond race came about because the English originally thought they were Egyptians?
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52. What musical instrument comes from the Hawaiian word for jumping flea?
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53. Which martial art is Japanese for empty hand?
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54. What term is German for noisy ghost?
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55. What is the American Indian name for a large, ape-like creature better known as Big Foot?
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56. What are the two main languages spoken in Belgium?
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57. What is the Aboriginal name for the worlds largest monolith?
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58. What is the Greek name for Greece?
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59. What is the traditional German form of address for an unmarried woman?
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60. What card games name comes from the Spanish for basket?
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61. What delicious food gets its name from the Aztec word meaning bitter water?
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62. What economic doctrine is French for leave alone. and opposes governmental regulation of, or interference in, commerce?
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63. What is the French word for cheese?
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64. What is the most common first name in the world?
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65. Brisbane girl Aiysha Saagar was the South Pacifics number 1 vocalist in 2004 in what language?
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66. What animals name is Aboriginal for I dont understand as that was what an aborigine answered when settlers asked what they were called?
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67. What Hawaiian acknowledgment can be used to say hello or goodbye?
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68. What terrorist organization’s name is Arabic for ‘The Base’?
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69. What disorder’s name comes from the Greek for ‘without appetite’?
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70. What month of the year, named after a Roman Emperor, was formerly called Sextilis?
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71. What does the Latin word ‘avis’ mean?
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72. What is the ancient Roman name for England, Wales and Scotland?
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73. What unusual character name, and part of a 1990s well-known sitcom title, means ‘the ultimate truth in all things’ in Hindu?
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74. What is the Italian word for a regular house cat?
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75. What food is Italian for dumplings and consists of small round balls made from potato or wheat flour, served in soup or with sauce?
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76. Is the US city ‘Las Vegas’ Spanish for ‘The Meadows’, ‘Big Desert’, or ‘The Land of Cactus’?.
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77. What Hawaiian beach, whose name means ‘sprouting water’, is overshadowed by Diamond Head volcano?
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1. Which Beatles song was described by Frank Sinatra as the greatest love song ever written?
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2. Where were the three coins in Frank Sinatras 1954 number one hit?
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3. Which punk rocker re-released Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ in 1978?
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4. What Frank and Nancy Sinatra song did Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman cover in 2001?
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