Some Example MooT Mailing List Questions
H. L. Mencken defined it as: "an illogical belief in
the occurrence of the improbable"; what word is it?
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Recently, in my spare time, I discovered the world's
smallest particle. I named it the goog because it weighs
exactly one billion to the minus googol grams.
Is the
goog infinitesimally small?
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In Greek nomos means
"law"; what do you call those who believe they are not constrained by the
prevailing moral law?
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What city caused the coining of a word meaning "a
person devoted to sensuous luxury"?
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It denotes a pedantic, exhaustive, point-by-point
refutation of someone's political position and it was named for a British
news-correspondent who employs it; what one-syllable neologistic eponym is
it?
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Which Macedonian is invective's eponym?
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More and more people have begun calling this symbol
the octothorpe; what is its more common name?
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In 1507 a cartographer published a map and a new
feminine proper noun was born.
If he had chosen the
masculine form, what would the noun have been?
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Etymology-wise, the name Panthalassa is to sea
as what name is to earth ?
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What diplomatic term originally denoted "the first
flyleaf glued onto a manuscript"?
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If one photo is worth a trillion hits, is one photo
worth a petahit?
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To give additional emphasis, authors sometimes end
interrogatory exclamations with ?! ; what is
this punctuation mark called?
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In Latin fans means
"speaking"; the Romans called them "those who cannot speak"; what do we call
them?
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According to The New Strong's
Complete Dictionary of Bible Words , it was derived from the Hebrew
name Yahowchanan ; which English given name is
it?
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According to Wired
magazine : "When they write the account of the 2004 campaign, it will
include at least one word that has never appeared in any presidential history";
what word is it?
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