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Pop Quiz: Idioms and Nationality

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1.

Being absent without permission may be called:___________ leave?

Italian
Irish
French

2.

Some nationality adjectives may refer to specific 'local recipes'. What is for instance the name for a hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage-meat, which is then fried and ultimately served as a cold platter?

Scotch egg
American egg
Russian egg

3.

What kind of twins are "congenitally" united near the waist?

Burmese twins
Vietnamese twins
Siamese twins

4.

Both "melancholia" and "rickets" have been called the __________ disease.

Spanish
English
Italian

5.

Rubella or 3-day measles is also known as the ___________ measles.

Swiss
German
Austrian

6.

A certain deep blue pigment, based on ferric ferrocyanid, is usually called ____________ blue?

Chinese
Prussian
Mediterranean

7.

The kiwifruit has been called the "Chinese gooseberry", a certain type of dog has been called a "Danish dog", but what is the other name for the jaguar?

Indonesian tiger
American tiger
African tiger

8.

In olden times armies already used "arms of mass destruction". A certain technique of naval warfare consisted in hurling from siphons, a kind of liquid fire on to enemy ships; this burning fuel then set the ships ablaze. What was the term used for such fire - which had already been invented in 8th century?

Greek fire
Roman fire
Turkish fire