English and related languages

Which month do soldiers hate?

• December

• July

• March

• June

How many letters are there in the alphabet?

• 25

• 27

• 24

• 8

If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

• Money

• Happiness

• Sorrow

• Secret

Which clothing is always sad?

(a)  

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

• one person in 50

• one in a 100

• one in 10

• one in four

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

• England

• United states

• China

• India

• Australia

In approximately how many countries does the English language have official or special status?

• 10

• 15

• 35

• 50

• 75

Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?

• okay

• happy

• dollar

• internet

Which of the following is the longest word that appears in a play by William Shakespeare?

• honorificabilitudinitatibus

• sesquipedalian

• antidisestablishmentarianism

• disproportionableness

• incomprehensibleness

An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name. An eponym is a word derived from the proper name of a person or place. What term is used for a word that's derived from the same root as another word?

• retronym

• oronym

• paronym

• exonym