Question: "Nederduits" often caused people to mix up the language of the Netherlands with that spoken in what directional area of Germany? 
Answer: north

Question: How many different versions of a Germanic language were spoken in the Low Countries?
Answer: Three

Question: Which Germanic dialect was spoken in the eastern region?
Answer: Saxon

Question: Which dialects are referred to as "Old Dutch"?
Answer: Franconian

Question: Was the transition from Old Dutch to Modern Dutch gradual, or did it happen quickly?
Answer: gradual

Question: Which Germanic dialect was spoken in the north and west of the Low Countries? 
Answer: Frisian

Question: Which language tree groups Dutch with English?
Answer: Indo-European

Question: What group of languages have to comply with Grimm's law?
Answer: Germanic

Question: In what age did the sound patterns that distinguish Germanic languages develop?
Answer: Iron Age

Question: Along with Grimm's law, what's the other rule for Germanic-sounding speech called?
Answer: Verner's law

Question: What does a language need to share with the group in order to be classified as Germanic?
Answer: common ancestor

Question: Into how many groups are Germanic languages usually split?
Answer: three

Question: In what historical period did the different types of Germanic languages stop being collectively understood?
Answer: the Migration Period

Question: What group of Germanic languages includes Dutch, English, and German?
Answer: West Germanic

Question: What's the West Germanic dialect spoken in the North Sea region called?
Answer: Ingvaeonic

Question: Which dialect group included most Frankish tribes?
Answer: Istvaeonic

Question: What's another term for "Frankish"?
Answer: Franconian

Question: What city is closest to the Bergakker inscription?
Answer: Tiel

Question: To which century do some researchers attribute the Bergakker inscription?
Answer: 5th

Question: What word found in Roman writings became "wad" in modern Dutch?
Answer: vadam

Question: What does the Dutch word "wad" mean in English?
Answer: mudflat

Question: What's another name for Old Frisian?
Answer: Anglo-Frisian

Question: What's another name for Old English?
Answer: Anglo-Saxon

Question: What language stayed very similar to the language spoken by Franks?
Answer: Old Dutch

Question: What period is the Bergakker inscription from that shows characteristics of the Old Dutch language?
Answer: Old Frankish

Question: What's another name for Old Dutch that demonstrates its difference from German Franconian?
Answer: Old Low Franconian

Question: Are written records of Old Dutch rare or common?
Answer: rare

Question: What Frankish document contains the oldest recorded instance of Dutch?
Answer: the Salic law

Question: What creature is swimming in the Dutch phrase "Visc flot aftar themo uuatare"?
Answer: fish

Question: Where did the monk who wrote the most famous Old Dutch sentence live?
Answer: Rochester, England

Question: What historically significant Dutch document begins with the phrase "Forsachistu diobolae"?
Answer: the Utrecht baptismal vow

Question: What language did Middle Dutch come from?
Answer: Old Dutch

Question: What year do some researchers say marked the point when Old Dutch morphed?
Answer: 1150

Question: Rather than a single language, what group sharing origins in Old Dutch does the term "Middle Dutch" refer to?
Answer: closely related dialects

Question: Would a text written in Middle Dutch be readable or unintelligible for a Dutch speaker today?
Answer: readable

Question: What court in Dijon prior to 1477 had a hand in standardizing Dutch?
Answer: Burgundian Ducal Court

Question: Which two Dutch dialects had the greatest influence in the Middle Ages?
Answer: Flanders and Brabant

Question: Which century marked great progress in Dutch standardization brought on by Antwerp?
Answer: 16th

Question: What year did the Spanish conquer Antwerp?
Answer: 1585

Question: What was the first Dutch Bible translation called?
Answer: Statenvertaling

Question: What was the old name for the geographical region that's now Belgium and Luxembourg?
Answer: Southern Netherlands

Question: What people ruled the Southern Netherlands after the Austrians?
Answer: French

Question: What year did the Netherlands and Belgium agree on a treaty to accommodate each other's language?
Answer: 1980

Question: What was the name of the treaty that brought the dialects of Belgium and the Netherlands together?
Answer: Language Union Treaty

Question: The commonality between Dutch spoken by people in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium can be compared to the relationship between British English and what language?
Answer: American English

Question: What's the "cheesy" name for East Low Franconian?
Answer: Limburgish

Question: What language has the most in common with the East Low Franconian dialect of Dutch?
Answer: Afrikaans

Question: Along with German and English, what standardized West Germanic language is similar to Dutch?
Answer: Frisian

Question: Non-standardized languages similar to Dutch include Yiddish and what other West Germanic language?
Answer: Low German

Question: As opposed to Dutch, what language was influenced by the High German sound shift?
Answer: German

Question: What dialect of Dutch is spoken in Drenthe?
Answer: Dutch Low Saxon

Question: What's the name of the river that marks a dialect divide in the Netherlands?
Answer: IJssel

Question: Although Dutch Low Saxon is similar to Low German, it's synchronically included with which language?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Which Dutch province is only partially comprised of speakers of Dutch low Saxon?
Answer: Gelderland

Question: When did cities like Diventer and Zutphen start becoming more linguistically diverse?
Answer: 14th to 15th century

Question: What organization researched the use of regional Dutch dialects and found their usage declining?
Answer: Geert Driessen

Question: What percentage of adults in the Netherlands spoke a dialect or regional language in 1995?
Answer: 27

Question: How many primary school aged children were found to speak a dialect or regional language by 2011?
Answer: 4 percent

Question: What's the most commonly spoken regional language in the Netherlands?
Answer: Limburgish

Question: In 2011, what percentage of Dutch adults spoke Frisian?
Answer: 44%

Question: What's the Dutch word for "money"?
Answer: geld

Question: West Flemings pronounce the Dutch "g" as a voiced glottal frivative, which would be represented by what letter in standard Dutch?
Answer: "h"

Question: What other European language has a mute "h" like the West Flemings do?
Answer: French

Question: What word that means "hero" would a West Fleming speaker probably pronounce the same as "geld"?
Answer: held

Question: If a West Fleming speaker were being extra careful to avoid the silent "h," they might over-correct into what sound?
Answer: g-sound

Question: What's the West Flemish word for "no"?
Answer: nee

Question: How would you tell a West Flemish speaker "yes"?
Answer: ja

Question: What piece of a sentence does West Flemish match the case of a "yes" or "no" to?
Answer: subject

Question: Would linguistic differences make it difficult or easy to point out someone who moved from a different region of the Netherlands?
Answer: easy

Question: Which is easier for a non-native speaker to imitate: grammar rules or sound shifts?
Answer: sound shifts

Question: What Dutch dialect is so distinct that it's often considered a language variant?
Answer: West Flemish

Question: What kind of governmental boundary does dialect distribution transcend, reflecting medieval divisions?
Answer: political boundaries

Question: What province is Zeelandic Flanders in?
Answer: Zeeland

Question: What area that abuts Belgium still has some older people who speak West Flemish?
Answer: French Flanders