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English
1st -
12thgrade
Communication, language learning, languages, idioms
25 questions
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- 1. Multiple Choice
How many languages are there in the world?
Aprroximately 350
About 7,000
Up to 2000
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which language family does English belong to?
Indo-European
Uralic
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which language is the most spoken language?
English
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese
Hindi
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which South-American country is NOT a Spanish-speaking country?
Mexico
Brazil
Argentina
Peru
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is Esperanto?
A South-American country
A Spanish dialect
An artificial language
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who is a polyglot?
A person who tells lies
A person who can speak many languages
A man who has many wives
- 7. Multiple Choice
How many official languages does the European Union have?
English and French (2)
English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (5)
Every official language of the member countries (24)
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is/are the official language(s) of the USA?
English and Spanish are the official languages of the USA
The USA does not have an official language, but the most commonly used language is English
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which language uses the Latin alphabet?
Russian
Greek
Arabic
Hungarian
- 10. Multiple Choice
Where do people speak Dutch (language)?
In Germany
In the Netherlands
In Denmark
- 11. Multiple Choice
If you do not understand something you say:
It's Chinese to me.
It's Greek to me.
It's Japanese to me.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What's the nickname of the US flag?
Stars and lines
Union Jack
Stars and stripes
- 13. Multiple Choice
What foreign language do most British students learn?
French
Spanish
German
Italian
- 14. Multiple Choice
About 30% of English words come from ........... .
Spanish
Italian
French
- 15. Multiple Choice
The first PRINTED books was in ......... .
Spanish
Latin
German
- 16. Multiple Choice
The first language spoken in space was .......... .
English
Russian
Chinese
- 17. Multiple Choice
A bilingual person can speak ......... languages fluently.
two
three
four
five
- 18. Multiple Choice
Are the following words are used in Great Britain (British English) or the USA (American English)?
elevator, sidewalk, pants, apartment, cell phone, French fries, soccer
USA
Great Britain
- 19. Multiple Choice
What did Gutenberg invent?
The typewriter
The printing press (printing books)
The word processor
- 20. Multiple Choice
When was the first mobile telephone call made from a handheld device?
In 1948
In 1973
In 1992
- 21. Multiple Choice
John Logie Baird invented (and demonstrated) television in .......... .
1957
1926
1889
- 22. Multiple Choice
Who invented the telephone?
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
- 23. Multiple Choice
When did Tim Berners-Lee introduce the World Wide Web?
In 2000
In 1991
In 1980
- 24. Multiple Choice
What was founded in February, 2004?
Instagram
iwiw
Facebook
Google
- 25. Multiple Choice
If you are good at learning languages, you learn quickly and have a good accent:
You are as fit as a fiddle.
You have an ear for languages.
You have a tongue for langauges.
You blow your own horn.
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