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

Brain teasers are an excellent way to test how fast your brain works. In this brain teaser, only readers with high IQs can ...

Since language is always evolving, widespread mispronunciations are often considered acceptable. But if you want to ace this ...

Readers with the sharpest eyes can find the word 'MODEM' in 7 seconds. Are you one of them? Test your word-puzzle skills now!

See if you can determine when these words first appeared in print, per the Oxford English Dictionary, in the quiz below. If dating words seems like a daunting task, it was. The first edition of ...

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 ...

Were intellectual pursuits only for men? If we look at the scenario, say, some decades ago, how much was women’s ...

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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 ...