1. Created by: Yildan Husnu

2.  1. What is the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet? Clue: it is one of the vowels.

3. EE

4.  2. The first letters of the months July through to November spell which boys name?

5.  Jason

6.  3. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous‘, two of these are: hazardous and stupendous. List at least one more.

7.  Horrendous and/or tremendous

8.  4. What is the oldest word in the English language: town, lamb or infant?

9.  Town

10.  5. The first English dictionary was written in which year:1955, 1855 or 1755?

11.  1755

12.  6. How many million people use the English language as their ‘mother tongue’ (their first language): 2 million, 25 million, 400 million?

13.  400 million

14.  7. How many million people speak English as a second language: 70 million, 300 million, 700 million?

15.  700 million

16.  8. How many different ways can the combination ‘ough’ be pronounced: two, four, or nine?

17.  Nine “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and he hiccoughed.”

18.  9. There are only two words in the English language that end with ‘ry’: ‘hungry’ is one of them, what’s the other?

19.  Angry

20.  What is ‘special’ about this sentence:  ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’

21.  It uses every letter of the alphabet.