TRANSLATION TRIVIA

QUESTION 1•What is the average size of translation or localization teams?

▫Fewer than 5 people▫Five to ten people▫Ten to twenty people▫Twenty to fifty people▫Over fifty people

QUESTION 2•What is the average age of translators and interpreters?

▫Under 25▫25 to 30▫30 to 40▫40 to 50▫50 to 60▫Over 60

QUESTION 3•Out of all books translated into foreign languages what percent of books is translated into Chinese?

▫5%▫10%▫15%▫20%▫25%

QUESTION 4•Which languages are known as the UN languages (choose all appropriate answers)?FRENCH FINNISH CHINESE ITALIAN

JAPANESE

GERMAN PORTUGESE

RUSSIAN

LATIN ENGLISH TURKISH GREEK

ARABIC UKRANIAN

SPANISH HINDI

QUESTION 5•What city in Iraq was the center of a vast and ambitious translation enterprise in the ninth and tenth centuries?

▫Mosul▫Damascus▫Babylon▫Baghdad▫Tehran

QUESTION 6•What is the name of the Catholic saint whose feast day serves as International Translation Day?

▫St. John▫St. Jerome▫St. Luke▫St. Valentine▫St. Katherine

QUESTION 7•The word “translation” derives from Latin “translatio” which can be roughly translated into English as…?

▫to come along▫to read through▫to look into▫to pass around▫to carry across

QUESTION 8

•What is the full (deciphered) version of the acronym CAT?

QUESTION 9•How many words is a human translator capable of translating per day?

▫Under 500 words▫500 to 1500 words▫1500 to 3000 words▫3000 to 5000 words ▫5000 to 10000 words▫Over 10000 words

QUESTION 10•How many words is a machine translation software capable of translating per minute?

▫Under 1000 words▫1000 to 4000 words▫4000 to 10000 words ▫10000 to 20000 words▫Over 20000 words

QUESTION 11•As a part of Georgetown-IBM

experiment over 60 sentences were translated from Russian into English. However the problem of MT became clear when the term “гидравлический таран” was translated into English as… ?

▫hydraulic ram▫hydro power▫water closet▫water goat▫waterfall▫hydro press

QUESTION 12•How many countries are known as member states of International Federation of Translators?

▫5▫17▫34▫55▫72

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