Monster Year 11 English and Literature Marathon Quiz!

Question 1

At what age did Mr AP learn to drive?

Accepted Answer

40

Question 2

How many people speak English as a first language in the world?

Accepted Answer

840 million

Question 3

Which insulting nickname did a critic use to describe Shakespeare?

Accepted Answer

Upstart crow

Question 4

When was the first dictionary made?

Accepted Answer

1755

Question 5

Which is the correct use of the apostrophe?

Accepted Answer

My son's going to be 21 on Friday

Question 6

If it wasn't for Shakespeare there would be no starlings in America

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What is the first line of a new paragraph called?

Accepted Answer

Topic sentence

Question 8

Which of these words did Shakespeare NOT invent?

Accepted Answer

wobble

Question 9

What is the oldest English word that is still used today?

Accepted Answer

Town

Question 10

What does 'Great Britain' mean originally?

Accepted Answer

'Great land of the tattooed'

Question 11

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

37

Question 12

The part of your back that you can't reach when you try to scratch it is called

Accepted Answer

acnestis

Question 13

Henry V is an example of a...

Accepted Answer

History play

Question 14

How did Shakespeare spell his own name?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 15

Which word is an anagram of 'the classroom'

Accepted Answer

School master

Question 16

Shakespeare's dad was a ...

Accepted Answer

Glovemaker

Question 17

A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What is the origin of the word 'quarantine'?

Accepted Answer

Italian for 'forty days'

Question 19

'Slowly' is an example of an...

Accepted Answer

adverb

Question 20

If you write out all the numbers as words eg 'one, two...' you won't use a letter 'b' until you reach one billion

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Who wrote The Woman in Black?

Accepted Answer

Susan Hill, Shakespeare

Question 22

A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards. Which of these is NOT a palindrome?

Accepted Answer

madams

Question 23

Which of these is NOT a conjunction?

Accepted Answer

They

Question 24

Enneacontakaienneagon is a word in the English language

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Shakespeare's party tricks were sword swallowing and lighting his farts

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

What does &#x27;translucent&#x27; mean?

Accepted Answer

See through

Question 27

What are the two most common words in the English language?

Accepted Answer

I / you

Question 28

What is special about the sentence 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'?

Accepted Answer

It contains all the letters of the alphabet

Question 29

What musical is based on Romeo and Juliet?

Accepted Answer

West Side Story

Question 30

What type of sentence has two complete clauses joined by a conjunction?

Accepted Answer

Compound

Question 31

Which English teacher acted with Sir Ian McKellen at the National Theatre in Shakespeare's Coriolanus?

Accepted Answer

Mr Andrew-Power

Question 32

What kind of writing is a short story?

Accepted Answer

Prose

Question 33

Which is the correct spelling?

Accepted Answer

Onomatopoeia

Question 34

What does enneacontakaienneagon mean?

Accepted Answer

A 99 sided shape

Question 35

What is the most used adjective in the English language?

Accepted Answer

good

Question 36

What is the origin of the word 'scissor'?

Accepted Answer

A Roman gladiator armed with two blades

Question 37

The original name for a butterfly was a flutterby

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

What is special about the word SWIMS?

Accepted Answer

It reads the same upside down

Question 39

What is the name of the punctuation mark that separates two clauses on the same topic?

Accepted Answer

Semi colon

Monster Year 11 English and Literature Marathon Quiz!

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Monster Year 11 English and Literature Marathon Quiz!

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