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English language quiz

English language quiz. Created by: Yildan Husnu. 1. What is the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet? Clue: it is one of the vowels. Answer:. E. 2. The first letters of the months July through to November spell which boys name?. Answer:. Jason.

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English language quiz

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  1. English language quiz Created by: Yildan Husnu

  2. 1. What is the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet? Clue: it is one of the vowels.

  3. Answer: • E

  4. 2. The first letters of the months July through to November spell which boys name?

  5. Answer: • Jason

  6. 3. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous‘, two of these are: hazardous and stupendous. List at least one more.

  7. Answer: • Horrendous and/or tremendous

  8. 4. What is the oldest word in the English language: town, lamb or infant?

  9. Answer: • Town

  10. 5. The first English dictionary was written in which year:1955, 1855 or 1755?

  11. Answer: • 1755

  12. 6. How many million people use the English language as their ‘mother tongue’ (their first language): 2 million, 25 million, 400 million?

  13. Answer: • 400 million

  14. 7. How many million people speak English as a second language: 70 million, 300 million, 700 million?

  15. Answer: • 700 million

  16. 8. How many different ways can the combination ‘ough’ be pronounced: two, four, or nine?

  17. Answer: • Nine “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and he hiccoughed.”

  18. 9. There are only two words in the English language that end with ‘ry’: ‘hungry’ is one of them, what’s the other?

  19. Answer: • Angry

  20. What is ‘special’ about this sentence: • ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’

  21. It uses every letter of the alphabet.

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