Friday 20 Question Quiz – 08/03/2024 Words and Language 20 questions to do with words/language. Enjoy! None What is the only English word formed by the first three letters of the alphabet? In nautical terminology, Port (left), was named by Admiralty in 1844. What was called what before? What was Karl Marx's term for wage labourers in modern capitalist systems? What word can be a font, an architectural style, or a type of novel? Which writer coined the word Cyberspace in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer"? What is the only number in English that when spelled has letters in alphabetical order? A person who has a profession of writing obituaries is known as a what? What name was given to the practice of killing every tenth man in a mutinous Roman cohort? What was the name given to textile workers who opposed modernisation during the nineteenth century? Name either of the two languages which appear on the Rosetta stone? Two dances are among the words used in the radio communications alphabet, name either one? Words that have opposite meanings (not contronyms) are known as what? From the Italian for '40 days', what name is given to an isolation period for people or animals with a contagious disease? The recording of financial transactions, what word has three sets of double letters in a row? In what language is the term “klutz” an insult? Phobos and Deimos are moons of Mars - Phobos means "Fear", what does Deimos mean? What is a word that has the same spelling but different sound and meaning? Which word, describing "chaos", first appeared in Milton's "Paradise Lost"? Invented by Ludovic Zamenhof, what's the best known artificial international language? What word refers to very harsh laws such as those devised by a 7th century BC Athenian legislator? Time's up
