8/10 and could have done worse, tennis is definitely not my forte 😅 Had no idea about the stabbing or Roland Garros, and spent quite some time deciding between set and match too
From memory (probably not that accurate) in the OED "run" has 464 definitions, whereas "set" has well over 500. Not that I cam remember where I saw that
The English word with the most definitions is "run," which has 645 meanings as a verb alone. It has surpassed the word "set," which was once considered the word with the most definitions but now has fewer in newer editions of the dictionary.
Of the ones I didn't know, the 3 times I took A (1, 4 & 10) it was wrong, the 2 times I didn't (6 & 7) it would have been right. The others I knew so 5/10.
Thought it might be difficult when I saw the three at the top of my leaderboard who are regulars for the 10, only got 8. Thought it would be more obscure than tennis.
I’m utterly amazed that Roland Garros was on here. He is featured in a lesson I did on WWI aviators just a couple weeks ago. Early on in the war, he was credited with the first aerial victory. A newspaper said famous flyer Garros flew into a zeppelin! Garros came forward, though, pointing out the story was false and he was still alive. However, he decided he wanted a machine gun mounted to his plane so that he COULD get the first aerial kill. While not the absolute first (tandem pilots and rear gunners already had kills), he was the first pilot to get a kill—with a forward mounted machine gun (using deflector plates on his propellers to keep from shooting his own propellers off!).
I knew #1, realized the tennis theme after that. I've played & followed tennis since I was 6...educated elimination on Q4, 'A' guess on the Bjorn Borg Q, missed who roland garros was
Me too.....when I married, husband taught me golf & I taught him tennis. Eventually I was beating him at golf & he was beating me at tennis....RIP William!
3/10 and equaled 7% of test takers--I got astronomy, linguistics, and Star Trek (I've got no idea what the Borg have to do with tennis though--maybe they like it). Gotta love a good sports theme; for me it's like Superman eating Kryptonite Loops for breakfast!
A "star" is a "star" I guess. I don't know the name of a single tennis player. Or a single Swedish person. Except for my neighbor growing up Ken Lundmark who did Olympic track and field for Sweden in the 70s, and I was friends with his kids, had sleepovers at his house. He was tall. He's got a wikipedia page now!
Thought it might be difficult when I saw the three at the top of my leaderboard who are regulars for the 10, only got 8. Thought it would be more obscure than tennis.
But it's a really cool story so I can't stay annoyed for long
Chose wrongly for the most definitions question.
I had genuinely no clue for nearly all of them...