In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German.

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The OED says that these words “may be obscure technical terms or terms restricted to occasional historical use”. But do you know their meaning? Take our quiz and find out.

To give you a taste of the competition, we’ve selected eight words that are either tricky to spell or whose meaning is obscure for our own spelling quiz. How well can you do? And before you begi ...

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This quiz is updated daily, so make sure to bookmark this page for a brand new teaser every day. Simply put, you have six attempts to guess a F1-related word. There will be a clue for each one to ...