1. TRANSLATION TRIVIA

2. 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

3. 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

4. QUESTION 3 Out of all books translated into foreign languages what percent of books is translated into Chinese? ▫5% ▫10% ▫15% ▫20% ▫25%

5. QUESTION 4 Which languages are known as the UN languages (choose all appropriate answers)? FRENCHFINNISHCHINESEITALIAN JAPANESEGERMANPORTUGESERUSSIAN LATINENGLISHTURKISHGREEK ARABICUKRANIANSPANISHHINDI

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. QUESTION 8 What is the full (deciphered) version of the acronym CAT?

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. QUESTION 12 How many countries are known as member states of International Federation of Translators? ▫5 ▫17 ▫34 ▫55 ▫72

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