What word means prior to the Civil War?
Answer
Antebellum
292 English Trivia Questions with Answers
292 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What punctuation mark ends an imperative sentence?
Answer
A Period Or Exclamation Point
What part of speech is "surreptitious", meaning "clandestine"?
Answer
Adjective
What is the singular possessive form of "boy"?
Answer
Boy's
What is the present participle form of hunt?
Answer
Hunting
What is the meaning of the prefix poly?
Answer
Many
What is the meaning of the prefix geo?
Answer
Earth
What is the meaning of the prefix "auto"?
Answer
Self
What is the meaning of the Latin root ultra?
Answer
Beyond
What is the meaning of the Latin root sol?
Answer
Sun
What is the meaning of the Latin root corpus?
Answer
Body
What is a word having same spelling but different sound and meaning?
Answer
Heteronym
What is a 9 letter word meaning "eagerly desirous and aspiring"?
Answer
Ambitious
What is a 7 letter word meaning "to purify by affliction"?
Answer
Chasten
What is a 7 letter word meaning "sharp-cornered"?
Answer
Angular
What is a 10 letter word meaning "the act or process of absorbing"?
Answer
Absorption
What does the saying "Don't cry wolf" mean?
Answer
Don't Give A False Alarm
What does "minuscule" mean?
Answer
Very Small
The work of what famous American poet inspired the musical "Cats"?
Answer
T.S. Eliot
The word "hotel" originated in which language?
Answer
French
S'agapo means "I Love You" in which language?
Answer
Greek
In "Mary Poppins", the Banks family lived on what street?
Answer
Cherry Tree Lane
If something is described as "noisome", what characteristic does it have?
Answer
Foul-Smelling
As used in English, what is the meaning of the Latin phrase "caveat emptor"?
Answer
Buyer Beware
As of 2012, which of the following is an official language of Greenland?
Answer
Greenlandic
A plot arranges what in a story?
Answer
Sequence Of Events