One of these refers to a person; three to places. Which refers to a person and by what name is he better known? Extra credit if you can locate the other three.
- The Banat of Temesvar
- The Rann of Kutsch
- The Epop of Emor
- The Ziggurat of Ur.
A Middle Eastern political leader claimed he was defrauded last year in a real estate deal with "a friend." Which of these is the leader and which the land that is the subject of the dispute?
- Wadi Abu Seif
- Wadi Jumblatt
Who is it, and described by whom? Strictly speaking, you might not recognize the actual speaker but you will know his father, and the son is thought to be a chip off the old block. I doctored it to remove clues:
Tall, largely built, handsome, genial, with liberal ...openness toward all he liked he had also [his peoples'] habit of command. …
For a year, at least … was the most popular and prominent man in his class, but
then seemed slowly to drop into the background. The habit of command was not
enough, and [he] had little else.
He was simple beyond analysis; so simple that even the simple [outsider] could not realize him. No one knew enough to know how ignorant
he was; how childlike; how helpless before the relative complexity of a school.
As an animal [people of his sort] seemed to have every advantage, but even as an
animal he steadily lost ground.
… Strictly, [a man of this sort] has no mind; he had
temperament. He was not a scholar; he
had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not
even conceive of admitting two.
Who? Go here.
1. (Easy) Distinguish
a) Arbiter
b) Arbitrator
c) Arbitrageur
d) Arbeiter
2. (Medium) Distinguish
a) Jacobin
b) Jacobean
c) Jacobite
3. (Hard) Distinguish
a) Rebellion
b) Revolution
c) Coup d'etat
d) Putsch
4. (Mixed) Who, whom?
a) He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
b) He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight.
c) When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit.
