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Which script did the Vikings carve into stone?
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What did Romans write on with a stylus?
Answer: wax tablets
Why: Smoothing the wax gave a blank tablet, a tabula rasa, still the Latin phrase for a clean slate.
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Whose alphabet did the ancient Greeks adopt?
Answer: Phoenicians
Why: Phoenician's 22 letters were all consonants; the Greeks recast five of them as the vowels alpha, epsilon, iota, omicron and upsilon.
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When was the last known hieroglyphic inscription carved?
Answer: AD 394
Why: It was carved at Philae, a temple that stayed open after Theodosius I closed Egypt's other temples.
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What is pencil lead made of?
Answer: graphite
Why: Graphite was first mistaken for a kind of lead and called plumbago, Latin for lead ore.
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What does the Latin root of volume literally mean?
Answer: something rolled
Why: Roman books were rolled scrolls; volume only came to mean loudness in the 19th century.
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Whose library at Nineveh held thousands of clay tablets?
Answer: Ashurbanipal
Why: Among its tablets was a copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the great poem of ancient Mesopotamia.
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