Can you name the words that mean either 'cake' or 'death' when translated into English?

Word	(C)ake or (D)eath?	Language
Tod		German
døden		Norwegian
halál		Hungarian
kematian		Indonesian
kuolema		Finnish
smrt		Czech
cacen		Welsh
torta		Italian
kuolema	Italian
surm	Italian
halál	Italian
Tod	Italian
smrt	Italian
døden	Italian
kematian	Italian
moartea	Italian
gâteaux	Italian
bolo	Italian
пирог	Italian
cacen	Italian
gebak	Italian
ciasto	Italian
torta	Italian
τούρτα	Italian

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Cake or Death? Quiz

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Created Jan 14, 2012 in Language
Featured Feb 6, 2012
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	Hejman:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 15:15 GMT		20 points
	Ah, gives me chills just thinking of Patrick Henry's famous declaration, "Give me cake or give me death!" Loved his dessert, that crazy Patrick Henry.

	rockgolf:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 15:31 GMT		21 points
	If you're a Death Eater, same diff.

	Beatlezfann:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 16:01 GMT		2 points
	@Hejman: I humbly suggest that "dolce" in italian simply means dessert and "torta" is the more specific word for cake.

	DarkPhalanx:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 16:12 GMT		20 points
	The cake is a lie.

	TL333s:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 16:51 GMT		9 points
	I missed the Hungarian one because I was thinking in Arabic!

	ToughQuiz:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 17:02 GMT		1 point
	Shame you couldn't add a question where the choice was "- or death" Unless there's some bizarre language that has the same word for both!

	Mini_Cooper:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 17:32 GMT		-1 points
	cake is NOT a lie

	druhutch:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 17:44 GMT		5 points
	@Beatlezfann: Not sure why you had to tell Hejman that, but I've swapped out "dolce" with "torta" (which then caused me to swap Lithuanian out with French, but it's all good now). Thanks for the suggestion, and thanks for the publish Sporcle! Love the blurb on the language page.

	miss_bish:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 19:45 GMT		12 points
	The URL for this is amaaazing!!

	Hendrix:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 19:46 GMT		12 points
	Death, please. No, cake, cake, sorry.

	ademuth93:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 23:20 GMT		1 point
	It's amazing that I got 13/16 considering I guessed on all but one of them. Perhaps I'm a secret language genius. ;D

	McNeal:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 23:29 GMT		9 points
	We're all out of cake

Word	(C)ake or (D)eath?	Language
ciasto		Polish
gebak		Dutch
moartea		Romanian
surm		Estonian
gâteaux		French
bolo		Portuguese
τούρτα		Greek
пирог		Russian

	aznemesis:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 02:52 GMT		3 points
	Once I missed the Russian one, I had the answer for the Greek one. The stupid thing is that I speak some Russian, but have no concept of Greek at all. The Germanic ones are fairly simple, because they're so similar to the English words. Fun quiz.

	Mayan:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 12:21 GMT		4 points
	"tod", as all German nouns, needs to be capitalized.

	Beatlezfann:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 22:15 GMT		5 points
	@druhutch: sorry but seeing hejman as the first comment i assumed he made the quiz (knowing that hejman makes lots and lots of quizzes) but anyway, you made yourself a fine quiz worth of publishment!

	trick39berry:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 23:32 GMT		1 point
	It is strange how cake and death have so many connections. People can die if they eat too much of it, the quote that Patrick Henry said in Hejman's comment, there is death by chocolate (cake) and the death eater thing mentioned by rockgolf, because you eat cake (i know it's a bit of a stretch...).

	hoanguyen268:	Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:01 GMT		1 point
	haha, random C or D to play this quiz :D

	WredAguyW:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 07:14 GMT		7 points
	Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake!" -chops her head off-

	choekaas:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 14:23 GMT		1 point
	At the end of the experiment, you will be baked - and then there will be - cake

	trick39berry:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 22:16 GMT		1 point
	@WredAguyW, I was going to use that reference in my above comment somehow, but I couldn't incorporate death into it. I didn't think about her getting guillotined. Clever. I'm learning about her in history currently.

	JaguarGator9:	Feb 10th, 2012 at 14:31 GMT		4 points
	Just a bit too much time. Maybe trim it down to 2 minutes, but good quiz.

	Zak6009:	Feb 12th, 2012 at 18:49 GMT		-2 points
	Too Euro-centric. No Hebrew? Booo.... also, seeing "xDeath" made me think of FFV.

	Zak6009:	Feb 13th, 2012 at 06:46 GMT		0 points
	Hey, whoever just downvoted me... I wasn't making a joke, moron, if you actually look at this quiz, EVERY language bar ONE is European, so therefore this quiz is Euro-centric, can't deny that. Didn't say that's a bad thing... get a life.

	cake:	Feb 24th, 2012 at 22:08 GMT		2 points
	Is it strange that I put cake for everything?

	JaredThater:	Mar 10th, 2012 at 23:33 GMT		1 point
	for some i looked at one syllable being death and two syllables being cake.

	wallercreek:	Mar 11th, 2012 at 07:53 GMT		2 points
	I wonder what percentage of the people who took this quiz know the eddie izzard connection to this.

	tehblooguy:	May 21st, 2012 at 18:01 GMT		3 points
	"Cake or death?" "Cake please" "Well we're all out of cake. We only had 3 bits, and we didn't expect such a rush". Also lol at the URL.

	ahef1963:	May 21st, 2012 at 18:16 GMT		1 point
	This is the weirdest quiz I've played yet. Thank you sincerely.

	miss_bish:	May 22nd, 2012 at 11:11 GMT		1 point
	What, so my choice is 'or death??' Well I'll have the chicken then please...

	CannedHate:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 01:39 GMT		1 point
	I am so smart! I am so smart! s-m-r-t!

	mundo:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 17:57 GMT		1 point
	So I know now to avoid Finland.

	klkeebler:	Dec 18th, 2012 at 15:12 GMT		2 points
	Saw "halal" and immediately thought food. Guess that cake isn't Halal.