English
Different Languages
Vocabulary
100
What is the British English for zucchini?
Courgette
100
Which language has the second most native speakers?
Spanish
100
What language does the word 'safari' come from?
Arabic/Swahili
200
Which English word has the highest number of meanings on the dictionary?
A) put
B) set
C) do
D) make
B) set (464 definitions)
200
How many languages are there in the world?
A) more than 7,000
B) more than 10,000
C) more than 200
D) more than 100,000
A) more than 7,000
200
There is a dictionary of every language in the world. True or False?
False. Fewer than a quarter of the world's languages have a written form, a necessary step towards having a dictionary.
300
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
a) dollar
b) okay
c) Internet
d) movie
b) okay
300
Which language was the first book written in?
Chinese
300
What do you call a person who studies dinosaurs?
A palaeontologist
400
How many English words come from French?
A) around 1,000
B) around 5,000
C) around 7,000
D) more than 10,000
C) around 7,000
400
How many characters are in the Thai alphabet?
A) 26
B) 44
C) 60
D) 79
B) 44
400
Where would you drink CocaCola from this bottle?
A) Israel
B) Iraq
C) Jordan
D) Ethiopia
D) Ethiopia
500
Which is the correct pluralization of the following four words? moose, deer, mouse, and monkey.
A) mooses, deer, mice, monkies
B) mooses, deer, mouses, monki
C) moose, deers, mice, monkeys
D) moose, deer, mice, monkeys
D) moose, deer, mice, monkeys
500
Which country has 16 official languages?
Zimbabwe
500
What does UNESCO stand for?
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation