The menu items correspond to the 8 questions Thomas Acquinas posed in his Summa Theologiae as those matters that must be specified in the defining of anything and everything. Many centuries later they were adopted by anglo-saxon culture, more or less consciously, through their introduction of the "5 Ws", which, in fact, correspond to 5 of Thomas's 8 questions.
1. QUIS "Who?"
2. QUID "What?"
3. QUANDO "When?"
4. UBI "Where?"
5. CUR "Why?"
6. QUANTUM "How much?"
7. QUOMODO "How?"
8. QUIBUS AUXILIIS "By what means?"
