Take the Quiz - Timed General Knowledge Challenge | GK Mania

1 What letter is silent in 'knight'?

A) H

B) G

C) K

D) N

2 What word contains 26 letters but only 3 syllables?

A) Abcdefg

B) Encyclopedia

C) Alphabet

D) Dictionary

3 What part of speech modifies a verb?

A) Adverb

B) Adjective

C) Pronoun

D) Noun

4 What is the most widely spoken Slavic language?

A) Polish

B) Russian

C) Serbian

D) Czech

5 What is a dead language?

A) A forgotten book

B) A lost alphabet

C) An extinct animal

D) language no longer

6 What is the antonym of 'begin'?

A) Enter

B) Open

C) Start

D) End

7 What is the study of meaning in language called?

A) Morphology

B) Semantics

C) Phonetics

D) Syntax

8 What is a group of words that forms a complete thought?

A) Clause

B) Phrase

C) Fragment

D) Sentence

9 What is the term for two words that sound alike but have different meanings?

A) Antonyms

B) Homophones

C) Homographs

D) Synonyms

10 What is a loanword?

A) word adopted from

B) A borrowed book

C) A temporary word

D) A slang term

11 What is an abbreviation?

A) shortened form

B) A new word

C) A long word

D) A foreign word

12 What language is spoken in most of Brazil?

A) French

B) English

C) Spanish

D) Portuguese

13 What is the traditional Chinese belief about the number 4?

A) It is very lucky

B) It is considered

C) It represents wealth

D) It has no meaning

14 What do quotation marks indicate?

A) Someone's

B) An exclamation

C) A command

D) A question

15 What is the difference between a phoneme and a morpheme?

A) They are the same

B) A phoneme has meaning

C) A morpheme is a sound

D) phoneme is the smallest

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