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I couldn't understand most of what Paxman said!


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Question 1.
Prime Minister, what word denotes in botany an alternate common name for the aster family, an order of architecture combining the elements of Corinthian and Ionic, a bow made of layers of horn, sinew and wood, a colour formed by the overlap of two other colours in a DTP document and an integer than is neither prime zero plus one or minus one?


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Question 2.
Traditional philology recognises three main linguistic types based on the way they construct words. What name is given to languages such as Latin and Greek which use endings that express several grammatical meanings at once?


The joke is Paxman used to host the quiz show University Challenge.