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Answer
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What is the name for the afternoon break observed in Spain?
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Siesta
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What is a pollywog?
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A young frog or toad
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What tennis score comes before 15?
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Love
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In what city does the musical "Rent" take place?
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New York City
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The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius". What does it mean in English?
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Faster, Higher, Stronger
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Who was the more famous bandmate of Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, and JC Chasez?
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Justin Timberlake
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What word comes before "comfort", "front", "turkey", and "fusion"?
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Cold
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What country was home to artist Frida Kahlo?
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Mexico
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What extremely contagious disease was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000, but has since returned?
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Measles
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What country's flag is half blue, half yellow?
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Ukraine
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What computer company was the world's most valuable corporation in 1970?
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IBM
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What movie, starring Robin Williams, is about a doctor who uses humor to help his patients get better?
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Patch Adams
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What scientist appears on some British £10 notes?
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Charles Darwin
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Who wrote about a sorcerer named Prospero?
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William Shakespeare
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On what island would you find the town of Corleone, ancestral home of the famous fictional crime family from "The Godfather"?
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Sicily
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What two words were written on the cake that Alice ate to make her grow larger?
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Eat Me
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Who is the claimed painter of "Salvator Mundi", the most expensive painting ever sold at $450.3 million?
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Leonardo da Vinci
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What Italian word refers to the conductor of a symphony orchestra?
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Maestro
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What is the term for a word that sounds like another word, but has a different meaning?
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Homophone
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What huge city in southern China was formerly known as Canton?
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Guangzhou
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Homo is Greek for same.
Nym is Greek for name.
Phone is Greek for sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone
The Venn diagram explains it pretty well on this page. There are two types of homophones: ones that sound alike, are spelled differently, and have different meanings (to, too, and two), and ones that sound alike, are spelled the same, and have different meanings (tire out and car tire). The first is called a heterograph (two and to). The second is a homonym (tire and tire). They are both homophones.
I believe quizmaster might be mistaken on his explanation of homonyms, though. Homonyms necessarily sound alike, are spelled the same, and have different meanings.
Jesse Owens,
Paavo Nurmi,
Michael Phelps,
Steve Redgrave,
Robert Wadlow
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2018/february/the-darwin-10-is-almost-extinct-just-one-week-to-go
cold front
cold turkey
cold fusion