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Words And Phrases

Can you answer the following questions on words and phrases?


1Which Japanese word translates into English as "empty orchestra"?
2Which phrase was first used in a novel by William Burroughs in 1962 and is now commonly used to describe a type of music?
3Who first coined the words "madcap", "hobnob" and "swagger"?
4Used in the English language, which German word means "noisy ghost"?
5What two word phrase is "Sweeney Todd" Cockney rhyming slang for?
6Which word in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet would score the most points in a game of Scrabble?
7What does "dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot" spell out in Morse Code?
8Beelzebub is Hebrew for what phrase, which is also the title of a famous novel?
9What three letter word was removed from decimal coins in 1982?
10Which English word comes from an old French word meaning "sour wine"?
Tie BreakIn which year was the word "homosexual" first used?