Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
India
United Kingdom
China
U.S.A.
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in one thousand
one in ten
one in one hundred
one in four
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
Go!
We!
Stay!
It!
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Papillon
Flappity
Flutterby
Schmetterling
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter A
letter S
letter E
letter R
The official language of the United States of America is...
they don't have an official language
English
English and Spanish
Spanish
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
UP
GET
SET
GO
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
MOVIE
DOLLAR
OK
INTERNET
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 2011
in 2021
in 2005
in 1999
How many ways are there to spell the sound /i:/?
8
7
12
3
The first English dictionary was written in...
1755
1930
1899
1616
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
TOWN
HELP
DOG
BREAD
In English there are...
22 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
19 consonants and 5 vowels
21 consonants and 5 vowels
Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
they are difficult to spell
they have no rhyming words
they only have two vowels
they are very strange colours
The character &, called ampersand, ...
is not a letter!
has never been used!
cannot be found in the keyboard.
used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter O
letter E
letter I
letter A
