600 cards, 1,200 questions, game rules and score pad. Two or more players or teams. Wgt 2.5 lbs. The questions in the Voyager Edition are arranged in six levels of difficulty permitting play by a wide range of ages and English language skills. The questions cover these aspects of words and the English language: Accents * Acronyms * Americanisms * Australianisms * Borrowed Words * Briticisms * Calques * Canadianisms * Definitions * Dialects * Dinosaur Words * Eponyms * Euphemisms * Global English * Grammar * History * Holorimic Phrases * Homographs * Homonyms * Homophones * Idioms * Jargon * Letter Words * Lexicography * Linguistics * Literacy * Malapropisms * Names & Nicknames * New Zealandisms * Onomatopoetic Words * Orthography * Other Languages * Pidgins & Creoles * Portmanteau Words * Quotations * Sexist English * Slang * Sociolinguistics * Spoonerisms * True or False * Evolving Words * Word Origins. To see the Question Category definitions and other sample questions for the Bethump'd with Words, Voyager Edition, click here Attention Word Nerds: The Voyager Edition of Bethump'd with Words has 1,200 questions featuring more than 40 aspects of everyday words and the on-going saga of the English language. It's the most linguistically comprehensive edition of the series. Voyager is not only for the language arts student and educator, it's for the armchair logophile as well as the linguist. It's compact and can be used as a family travel game (it has its own rules and doesn't need the gameboard), a supplemental question set for the Senior Edition, and, of course, as fireside entertainment for the reader, writer, and every other lover of the language arts. Check out the sample questions below to see if you agree. Age 12 to Adult OBJECTIVE To win, answer the most questions correctly and earn the most points in 4 rounds of play. 1. The value of each question is equal to the question's level of difficulty. That is, a question from Level I, II, III, IV, V, or VI is worth, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 points. 2. An opponent reads the player's questions to her/him. 3. In each turn, the player attempts to answer 6 questions in ascending order, one from each of the six levels of difficulty starting with easiest or Level I. However, if an answer is incorrect the player loses her/his turn, adds up the points from correct answers, and the next player takes their turn. 4. Players who correctly answer all six of the successive questions earn 9 bonus points. 5. The player with the highest score at the end of four rounds of play wins the game. GLOBAL ENGLISH In the 1990s, how did Communist China's avowed-atheist leaders justify why they were encouraging the use of the Christian Bible in English language classes? a. it was available free, from missionaries b. it helped students understand Judeo-Christian thinking c. it has English's most commonly used idioms in their original context (See Ans.1) NEW ZEALANDISMS In New Zealand, is a "loopie" a tourist, lunatic, or kiwi bird? (See Ans.2) SLANG In the grandmother-gagging lingo of the 1990s, what did young street urchins mean when they turned on a bully and said, "Let's give him a swirly"? a. give him a helicopter ride b. stick his head in a flushing toilet c. spin him around until he's dizzy (See Ans.3) BRITICISMS In British pub lingo, is a beer that is "all arms and legs" flat, too weak, or too strong? (See Ans.4) SEXIST ENGLISH If the term "John Doe" made its first appearance in English in 1768, did "Jane Doe" show up in 1736, 1836, or 1936? (See Ans.5) MALAPROPISMS During the 2000 presidential campaign, what malapropism-prone candidate used the word "hostile" when he meant hostage, "terrier" when he meant tariff, and "subliminalated" when he meant subliminal? a. John McCain b. George W. Bush c. Patrick Buchanan (See Ans.6) LINGUISTICS If you are fluent in English and French and are hired to write the English subtitles to a French movie, will your captions have fewer, the same, or more words than those used by the French-speaking actors? (See Ans.7) SPOONERISMS What did Reverend William A. Spooner really mean to say when, to one of his failing students, he said, "You have tasted a whole worm"? (See Ans.8) EVOLVING WORDS What term that is used predominantly in the jargon of today's baseball started out in 1878 defined as "a train pulled by two locomotives"? (See Ans.9) GRAMMAR What Canadian professional hockey team adopted a name that gives strict grammarians neurotic tics because it uses an improper plural rather than the standard irregular plural? (See Ans.10) ANSWERS 1. c 2. tourist ... who typically travels around the island's outer highway then promptly heads for home 3. b 4. too weak ... per the logic that is has arms and legs but no body 5. 1936 6. b 7. Fewer ... Compared to English, the vocabulary of French is more limited so French requires more words to express most every idea. 8. "You have wasted a whole term." 9. doubleheader 10. Toronto Maple "Leafs" ... which the persnicketies say should be "Toronto Maple Leaves"! |