ENGLISH FACTS
What is the most commonly used noun in English?
Time
What is the deepest lake in the world?
Lake Baikal (Russia)
What is the title of the classic Greek epic attributed to Homer, telling the story of the Trojan War?
The Iliad
What are animals with an articulated skeleton called?
Vertebrates
What do you call the words we use repeatedly during conversation even if they don’t add meaning?
Crutch words
How many words are added to the dictionary each year?
About 4,000
What is the largest desert in the world?
The Antarctic Desert (5.4 million square miles. Arctic Polar Desert - 5.3 million square miles. Sahara Desert - 3.5 million square miles)
What is the real name of the founder of Buddhism, commonly known as the Buddha?
Siddartha Gautama
How many eyes does a bee have?
Five
What’s the name for the symbol “&”?
AMPERSAN
What is the longest English word without a true vowel?
Rhythm
Which country is also called The Netherlands?
HOLLAND
Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote?
New Zealand, on September 19, 1893
In which year was the first Super Bowl played?
1967
What are words with contradictory meanings?
Contronyms
What is the longest word you can make using only four letters?
Senseless
What is the rainiest city in the world?
Mawsynram
Who was the first Roman emperor?
Augustus
What does BMW stand for (in English)?
Bavarian Motor Works
What is a sentence using every letter in English called?
Pangram (“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”)
What do “silver”, “month”, “orange” and “purple” have in common?
They have no rhymes in English.
What is the newest element on the periodic table?
Oganesson (Og)
What is the name of the first human civilization?
Mesopotamia
What does the acronym “URL” stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
What is a name fitting its owner’s job?
Aptonym (or euonym)