The English Language trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 The English Language questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
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What do Americans call the machine that the British call a 'lift'?Very easy
Answer: Elevator
Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?Very easy
Answer: Hamlet
What do Americans call the season that the British call 'autumn'?Very easy
Answer: Fall
What does the English idiom 'a piece of cake' mean?Easy
Answer: Something very easy
What do we call a word such as 'level' or 'racecar' that reads the same backwards as forwards?Easy
Answer: Palindrome
What does the abbreviation 'e.g.' mean?Easy
Answer: For example (exempli gratia)
From which ancient language do the English words 'democracy', 'philosophy' and 'theatre' ultimately come?Intermediate
Answer: Greek
What term describes a word that imitates the sound it names, such as 'buzz' or 'sizzle'?Intermediate
Answer: Onomatopoeia
What do the British call the luggage compartment of a car that Americans call the 'trunk'?Intermediate
Answer: The boot
Which letter is silent in the English word 'receipt'?Hard
Answer: P
What do Americans call the purple vegetable that the British call an 'aubergine'?Hard
Answer: Eggplant
What term describes a sentence such as 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' that contains every letter of the alphabet?Hard
Answer: Pangram
Which grammatical mood is used in the English sentence 'If I were you'?Very hard
Answer: The subjunctive
Which English word for a fortunate discovery made by accident was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754, inspired by a Persian tale?Very hard
Answer: Serendipity
What is the name of the small dot above a lowercase 'i' or 'j'?Very hard
Answer: Tittle
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