ABCs of English quiz

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

• 19

• 26

• 30

• 22

The English word "bacteria" is based on the word bakterion from which language?

• Latin

• Russian

• German

• Greek

What letter begins more English words than any other?

• L

• S

• X

• A

What letter does not appear in the English numbers 1 through 100?

• i

• o

• a

• e

Which of these is not a period of development of the English language?

• Ancient Greek

• Anglo-Saxon

• Middle English

• Modern English

Which of these was not a dialect of Old English?

• Kentish

• Northumbrian

• Irish

• Mercian

Which of these sounds does not come at the beginning of a word, in English?

• cl

• al

• ng

• ba

Which is the most common order of words in English?

• object-verb-subject

• verb-object-subject

• subject-verb-object

• subject-object-verb

Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?

• one person in 1,000

• one in a 100

• one in 10

• one in four

Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?

• England

• United States

• India

• Australia