INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• The only word in English dictionary that sums up exactly 100 is "attitude".
•  The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.
•  "I am". Is the shortest complete sentence in English language.
•  The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".
•  A dot over the letter "i" is called a TITTLE.
•  The word "Set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
•  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
•  On reversing the words they spell the same: "Malayalam", "Liril" and "Madam".
•  There is a seven – letter word in the English language that contains 10 words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein" – the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
•  "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
•  "Facetious" & "Abstemious" contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does "Arsenious"(meaning Containing arsenic).
•  "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

 

Quiz Questions about British History

1) What is the full, correct title for Britain?
2) Name the earliest known tribe of Homo sapiens to populate Britain.
3) Which group of tribes originated from northern Europe, bringing cultural traits which are still a part of British life today?
4) Which invading people, who arrived some time around 43 AD, drove the Picts into Scotland and the Celts into Wales?
5) In the 8th Century, the Benedictine monk known as the Venerable Bede wrote that his contemporaries were the mostly decendents of which three invading peoples?
6) Where did the Angles and Saxon come from?
7) Which group of people invaded Britain in 1066?
8) Between 1455 and 1485, which English counties warred against each other?
9) The conflict which raged between the kings of England and France is known as which war? 
10) Which war ended with the Battle of Worcester in 1651?

Now look for the answers:
1.The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2.Picts.
3.Celts.
4.Romans.
5.Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
6.The Angles and Saxons came from Germany, and the Jutes came from Denmark.
7.Normans.
8.Lancashire and York.
9.The One Hundred Years war.
10.English Civil War.

Quiz Questions about British Geography

1) Name the seas surrounding the British Isles.
2) Name the four separate countries which make up Britain?
3) What are the three Crown Dependencies?
4) How many square miles does the United Kingdom cover in total? 
5) Which country accounts for just over half of the total square miles of the United Kingdom? 
6) Standing at 3,209 feet, which is England's highest mountain? 
7) Name Britain's main rivers.  
8) Which British country is divided roughly into two areas, and has nearly 800 islands? 
9) Standing at 4,406 feet, which is Scotland's highest mountain? 
10) What are known, collectively, as the Welsh 3000? 
11) What is the United kingdom's largest lake? 

Now look for the answers:
1.The Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the English Chanel.
2.England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
3.Jersey, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
4.94,060
5.England.
6.Scafell Pike in the Lake District.
7.Severn, Thames, Humber, Tees, Tyne, Tweed, Avon, Exe and Mersey.
8.Scotland.
9.Ben Nevis.
10.The fifteen mountains which stand over 3,000 feet in height.
11.Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland.