Years and Decades!
McDonalds stopped serving spaghetti in this year (with the exception of the one in Orlando and locations in Indonesia and the Philippines)
What is 1980
True or False: The ampersand was once considered part of the English alphabet.
True!
The oldest piece of cake is nearly ___ years old
4,000 years old! which is many centuries, so...
A group of owls is called this.
What is a parliament?
Which came first: plants or seeds?
Plants!
The term “OK” was first used in this year.
What (when?) is 1839?
The word for the dot over the lowercase “i” and “j”
Before the ___ century, English spelling was not standardized, and writers often spelled words phonetically.
What is the 18th?
The color of a polar bear's skin.
Black
A rainbow on Venus is called ___
What is a glory?
The first comprehensive English dictionary was published in [year] by Samuel Johnson.
What is 1755?
This letter is the most frequently used letter in the English language.
Bonus: It appears in about ___ of all words in English texts.
What is the letter "E"?
Bonus: What is 11%?
Indenting the first line of a paragraph became standard practice in the this century.
What is 17th?
The biggest butterfly in the world has a ___cm wingspan.
31
Murder rates rise in this season.
Summer!
The “Young Adult” market was created and recognized in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
Green Eggs and Ham contains exactly ___ words because of a bet.
What is 50?
Quotation marks were introduced into English printing in the __ century.
What is the 16th century?
the maximum power a horse can produce is around __ horsepower.
what is 24?
The Caesar Salad was invented in this country.
What is Mexico?
The use of “they” as a singular pronoun dates back to this century.
Bonus: The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to [year], where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.
What is the 14th century?
Bonus: What is 1375?
William Shakespeare is credited with introducing over _____ words to the English language.
What is 1,700?
The apostrophe was introduced into English in this century to indicate omitted letters in contractions.
What is the 16th century?
A chicken once lived for ___ months without a head. Bonus: What decade was this recorded in?
What is 18?
Bonus: What is the 1940s?
A [type of occupation] invented the electric chair
A dentist!