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Quiz question suggestions: Telephones
Quiz-question-suggestions about Telephones
What country was Bell working in when he invented the telephone? America
When was the telephone invented? 1876
Who was the first telephone call from? Who was it to? Alexander Graham Bell called his assistant, Thomas Watson.
What did the caller say? “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.”
When was the first phone book issued? 1878
What did Alexander Graham Bell recommended that people should say when they answered the telephone? - “Ahoy”.
Who suggested saying "Hello" instead? Thomas Edison
What type of telephone line did you have if several houses shared the same number? A party line
What does a modem do? It lets two computers communicate, over a telephone line.
What does "modem" stand for? modulator / demodulator.
When was the cordless phone invented?
In what year did the number of mobile phones in the world become greater than the number of people in the world? 2005, 2014 or 2019? 2014
What does TTY stand for? What was it used for? telephone typewriter - it was the first way that Deaf people used the telephone
When was the first wireless telephone network designed? 1900s? The 1940s? The 1990s? - answer is 1940s.
When did cellphones, also called mobile phones, become widely available? 1960s? 1990s? 2000s? - Answer = 1990s.
Text messages are also called SMS messages. What does SMS stand for? Short Message Service
What does MMS stand for? Multi-media Message Service
What is frigensophobia? Fear that using your mobile is damaging your brain.
What is nomophobia? Addiction to mobile phones.
If you want to make a telephone call to this country, what country-code should you use:
- United Kingdom - 44
- South Africa - 27
- United States of America - 1
- New Zealand - 64
- Ireland - 353
The ITU is a United Nations agency which helps coordinate global telecoms, and allocates numbers to countries. What does ITU stand for? (International Telecommunication Union
What is the area code for <<your area>> - add your own answer.
What number do you call to get the fire-service? - add the answer for your country
What number do you call for Directory Services?
What is the telephone number for <<a well known local place / this school / etc>> -
What number do you call to get the fire-service? - add the answer for your country
What number do you call for Directory Services?
What is the telephone number for <<a well known local place / this school / etc>> -
Quiz question suggestions: Language, words and grammar
Quiz-question-suggestions about Language, words and grammar
How many languages are spoken in the United States of America?
Options: 2, 3-10, around 30, over 300. Answer = over 300
What is the official language in Canada? English and French
What is the official language in England? English
What is the official language in Brazil? Portuguese
What is the official language in Samoa? Samoan
What is the official language in Wales? Welsh
(Substitute any other countries , depending on what your quiz-participants are likely to know about)
What type of word names things? - A noun
What type of work names actions? A verb
What type of word describes something? An adjective
What type of word intensifies an action? An adverb
What type of word stands in for a proper name? A pronoun.
What type of word joins two phrases together? A conjunction
What type of word links a noun to another word? A preposition
What type of word can be a complete sentence by itself? An interjection
What is the name for the rules describing how sentences are put together in a language? Grammar
What is the name for identifying the part-of-speech which each word in a sentence is? Parsing
What is the most common punctuation mark at the end of a sentence? A full-stop
What punctuation mark is used at the end of a question? A question mark.
What's the proper name for an "and" symbol (&) - Ampersand
What's the proper name for the "hash" symbol (#) - octothorpe
What's the proper name for a dash symbol (-)? A hyphen
Which is wider, an en-dash or an em-dash? An em-dash
WFT, LOL and AMA are all examples of what? Three-letter acronyms. (TLA's)
What language is spoken by most people in the world? Mandarin Chinese.
What is the second most common native language in the world? Spanish
What word describes someone who can speak two languages? Bi-lingual.
What word describes someone who can only speak one language? Mono-lingual or Monoglot
What word describes someone who can speak two languages many? Multi-lingual or Polyglot
What is the most commonly-used letter in the alphabet in English? E
What is the least-used letter in the alphabet in English, according to the Oxford English dictionary? Q
In English, how many vowels are there? 5: A, E, I, O and U
In English, how many consonants are there? 26-5 = 21
What do Kilngon, Elvish and Dothraki have in common? They are fake languages, made up for books and/or movies.
What is the most well-known dead language? Latin
Which book has been translated into most languages? The Bible
Quiz question suggestions: Ireland
Quiz-question-suggestions about Ireland
How approximately many people lived in Ireland in 2010? 1 million, 4 million, 10 million - answer = 4 million
What ocean is off Ireland's west coast? The Atlantic
What sea is between England and Ireland? The Irish Sea
How long does it take to fly from Ireland to England - 10 minutes, 1 hour or 5 hours? Answer = 1 hour
Where in England can you catch a ferry to Ireland? Liverpool, Holyhead
How many offshore islands does Ireland have? 0, 3, 12, More than 80 Answer = more than 80 (about 20 are inhabited).
What is the name of the motorway around Dublin - the M1 or the M50? Answer = M50
What are the colour's in Ireland' flag? Green, White and Orange / Gold.
Name the largest city in Ireland? Dublin
Name the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland? Cork
Name the second largest city in the Island of Ireland? Belfast
Which of these is not the name of a town in Ireland - Westport, Enniscorthy, Trim, Oban, Tralee? Oban
Name the longest river in Ireland? The Shannon
Name the largest town or city that each of these rivers flows through: The Corrib (Galway), the Suir (Waterford), the Lee (Cork), the Liffey (Dublin), the Shannon (Limerick),
Name the tallest mountain in Ireland? Carrauntoohil
Which of these is not the name of a mountain range in Ireland - Macgillycuddy's Reeks, The Twelve Bens, The Grampians, Wicklow Mountains? The Grampians
What are the official languages in Ireland? Engish, Irish, Irish Sign Language
What is the name of Ireland, in Irish? Éire
What is the classical Latin name for the island of Ireland? Hibernia
What is the two letter country code for Ireland used in internet addresses? IE
When was the Irish War of Independence? 1919-1921
When was the Irish Free State formed? 1922
What year was the Republic of Ireland formed? 1937
Who was the first President of Ireland? Dr Douglas Ross Hyde (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde / An Craoibhín Aoibhinn?
When did Ireland leave the British Commonwealth? 1948
What year did Ireland join the European Communities? 1972
What is the main religion in Ireland? Catholicism
Who is the best known patron saint of Ireland? St Patrick?
When is St Patrick's Day? 17 March
Name two other saints from Ireland (Brigid, Kevin, Columcille, Oliver Plunket)
What will you find at the foot of a rainbow? Pot of gold
In Irish folklore, who is the little bearded man, wearing a coat and hat, who gets up to mischief? A leprechaun
What does it mean if you see a banshee? Someone is going to die
Name the sexually-explicit female figure who is sometimes carved on cathedrals or castles? A sheela na gig
What stone should you kiss if you want to become great at talking? The Blarney stone
What are reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, and treble jigs? Types of dances / tunes / dance-tunes
What are Irish bagpipes called? uilleann pipes
What musical instrument is featured on coins from Ireland? Harp
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