What is the name for a word formed by combining two words, like 'brunch'?
Answer
portmanteau
292 English Trivia Questions with Answers
292 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What Latin phrase used in English means "seize the day"?
Answer
Carpe diem
Which playwright wrote the tragedy "Hamlet"?
Answer
William Shakespeare
Who wrote the fantasy novel "The Hobbit"?
Answer
J. R. R. Tolkien
Who wrote the tragic play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
Answer
William Shakespeare
What poetic meter of five iambic feet per line was famously used by Shakespeare?
Answer
Iambic pentameter
What branch of linguistics is the study of meaning in language?
Answer
Semantics
Who wrote the comedic play "The Importance of Being Earnest"?
Answer
Oscar Wilde
Who wrote the novel "Moby-Dick"?
Answer
Herman Melville
Who wrote the novella "The Old Man and the Sea"?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Answer
Mark Twain
Which Charles Dickens novel follows an orphan named Pip and his mysterious benefactor?
Answer
Great Expectations
Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?
Answer
John Milton
Who wrote the collection of stories known as "The Canterbury Tales"?
Answer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Which author created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
Answer
Arthur Conan Doyle
What is the term for the main character of a story?
Answer
Protagonist
Who wrote the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
Answer
George Orwell