292 English Trivia Questions with Answers
292 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice"?
Answer
Jane Austen
Which Charles Dickens novel opens with the line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
Answer
A Tale of Two Cities
The words "the", "a", and "an" belong to which class of words?
Answer
Articles
Who compiled "A Dictionary of the English Language", published in 1755?
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Samuel Johnson
What grammatical term names a clause that contains a subject and verb and can stand alone as a sentence?
Answer
Independent clause
What punctuation mark is placed at the end of a direct question?
Answer
Question mark
Which English playwright wrote the tragedy "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer
William Shakespeare
What 45-letter word names a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust?
Answer
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
What is the plural form of the noun "goose"?
Answer
Geese
What is the name for the study of the origin and history of words?
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Etymology
The abbreviation 'etc.' is short for which Latin phrase?
Answer
Et cetera
What is the name of the '&' symbol, which is used to mean 'and'?
Answer
Ampersand
What is the standard three-word order of a basic English sentence?
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Subject verb object