True or false? The longest word in English is:
"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and it is a type of lung disease.
True!
100
The word "wiki" as in "Wikipedia" comes from:
a. Greek, meaning "smart"
b. Hawaiian, meaning "quick"
c. Japanese, meaning "to light"
What is Hawaiian?
100
Modern Greek is read from:
a. right to left
b. left to right
What is left to right.
200
What letter do more words begin with than any other letter?
What is 'S'?
200
These are the six official languages of the United Nations.
What are English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, & Russian?
200
True or false? The word "girl" used to mean either a boy or a girl.
True!
200
The word "amen" comes from:
a. Hebrew
b. Latin
c. French
What is Hebrew?
200
What does the word "alphabet" (from Greek) literally mean?
What is alpha + beta?
300
This is the number of words added to the English dictionary every year.
What is:
a. 1000?
b. 2000?
c. 3000?
d. 4000?
300
The number of "languages" in Lord of the Rings.
What is 12?
300
True or false? "am" is the oldest and shortest English word.
False. What is "I"?
300
"Nice" comes from a word which originally means:
a. sweet
b. good
c. ignorant
What is ignorant?
300
Which letter is the most used in English:
a. e
b. s
c. i
What is e?
400
What is special about these four words: month, purple, orange, and silver?
a. they are all borrowed from Spanish
b. they are all over 2000 years old
c. none of them have a word which rhymes
d. none of them can be said until a child is three years old
400
The estimate of how many languages there are in the world?
What is
a. 2000-3000
b. 4000-5000
c. 6000-7000
400
True or false? The Pope tweets in a total of five different languages.
False. Nine!
400
"Jeans" come from:
a. the name of the woman who first made them
b. the name of the city, Genoa, Italy
c. the type of material used
What is Genoa, Italy?
400
The "dot" over the letter "i" is called:
a. a dot
b. a point
c. a title
What is a title?
500
What is special about this sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’?
It uses every letter in the alphabet.
500
The smallest and largest alphabets consist of this many letters?
What is:
a. 7 & 52
b. 9 & 62
c. 11 & 74
500
By age of three, an average child will have a vocabulary of a several thousand words.
False. By the age of FIVE...
500
The word "soccer" comes from:
a. association
b. socks
c. Socrates
What is Association. The word Soccer actually originated in the United Kingdom. Association Football was shortened to "socca" (derived from the middle of the word association). This turned into the word "soccer" that is still used in the US, Canada, and Australia.
500
The least commonly used letter in English is what?