Post by JP on Apr 15, 2006 12:46:28 GMT -5
Chainleader Challenge 5
1. What is the capitol of Maldives?
-- Male
2. What was the average amount of time it took the Students at Whittier Elementary in Waukesha, WI to reach the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?
-- 9 minutes
3. How many years since 1881?
-- 125
4. Grimbsy is the advisor to what prince?
-- Grimbsy should be Grimsby. Answer: Prince Eric (because you forgot to remove it from the Q)
5. Which Characters from A Bug's Life don't speak English?
-- Tuck and Roll
6. Sting wrote music for what Disney movie?
-- The Emperor's New Groove
7. What is Tiger Woods' real first name?
-- Eldrick
8. On The Flintstones, what is Betty Rubble's full birth name?
-- Betty Jean McBricker
9. What is the only place in Britain that the Queen is prohibited by law from entering?
-- The Houses of Parliament
10. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
-- honey
11. What's the smallest country in the world?
-- Vatican City
12. What language has the most words?
--
www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/mostwords
Is it true that English has the most words of any language?
This question is practically impossible to answer, for the reasons set out in the answer to How many words are there in the English language? However, it seems quite probable that English has more words than most comparable world languages.
The reason for this is historical. English was originally a Germanic language, related to Dutch and German, and it shares much of its grammar and basic vocabulary with those languages. However, after the Norman Conquest in 1066 it was hugely influenced by Norman French, which became the language of the ruling class for a considerable period, and by Latin, which was the language of scholarship and of the Church. Very large numbers of French and Latin words entered the language. Consequently, English has a much larger vocabulary than either the Germanic languages or the members of the Romance language family to which French belongs.
English is also very ready to accommodate foreign words, and as it has become an international language, it has absorbed vocabulary from a large number of other sources. This does, of course, assume that you ignore 'agglutinative' languages such as Finnish, in which words can be stuck together in long strings of indefinite length, and which therefore have an almost infinite number of 'words'.
-- in one word: English, lol
13. In Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series, what is the name of Rhyme's personal aid/nurse?
-- Thom
14. Who is the Mastermind in James Patterson's books Roses are Red, and Violets are Blue?
-- Kyle Craig
15. Who won the reality show La Granja: VIP?
-- Javier Estrada
16. Where is the Chicken capital of the world?
-- Gainesville, Georgia
17. What 4 thoroughbreds all won the Triple Crown in 1940's?
--
1941 - Whirlaway
1943 - Count Fleet
1946 - Assault
1948 - Citation
18. S.R. "Tubby" Davis needed to distinguish his restauraunt in Marietta, Georgia. What 'landmark' did he create for this purpose?
-- The Big Chicken, which is now owned by KFC
www.dcltribute.com/bigchicken/
1. What is the capitol of Maldives?
-- Male
2. What was the average amount of time it took the Students at Whittier Elementary in Waukesha, WI to reach the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?
-- 9 minutes
3. How many years since 1881?
-- 125
4. Grimbsy is the advisor to what prince?
-- Grimbsy should be Grimsby. Answer: Prince Eric (because you forgot to remove it from the Q)
5. Which Characters from A Bug's Life don't speak English?
-- Tuck and Roll
6. Sting wrote music for what Disney movie?
-- The Emperor's New Groove
7. What is Tiger Woods' real first name?
-- Eldrick
8. On The Flintstones, what is Betty Rubble's full birth name?
-- Betty Jean McBricker
9. What is the only place in Britain that the Queen is prohibited by law from entering?
-- The Houses of Parliament
10. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
-- honey
11. What's the smallest country in the world?
-- Vatican City
12. What language has the most words?
--
www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/mostwords
Is it true that English has the most words of any language?
This question is practically impossible to answer, for the reasons set out in the answer to How many words are there in the English language? However, it seems quite probable that English has more words than most comparable world languages.
The reason for this is historical. English was originally a Germanic language, related to Dutch and German, and it shares much of its grammar and basic vocabulary with those languages. However, after the Norman Conquest in 1066 it was hugely influenced by Norman French, which became the language of the ruling class for a considerable period, and by Latin, which was the language of scholarship and of the Church. Very large numbers of French and Latin words entered the language. Consequently, English has a much larger vocabulary than either the Germanic languages or the members of the Romance language family to which French belongs.
English is also very ready to accommodate foreign words, and as it has become an international language, it has absorbed vocabulary from a large number of other sources. This does, of course, assume that you ignore 'agglutinative' languages such as Finnish, in which words can be stuck together in long strings of indefinite length, and which therefore have an almost infinite number of 'words'.
-- in one word: English, lol
13. In Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series, what is the name of Rhyme's personal aid/nurse?
-- Thom
14. Who is the Mastermind in James Patterson's books Roses are Red, and Violets are Blue?
-- Kyle Craig
15. Who won the reality show La Granja: VIP?
-- Javier Estrada
16. Where is the Chicken capital of the world?
-- Gainesville, Georgia
17. What 4 thoroughbreds all won the Triple Crown in 1940's?
--
1941 - Whirlaway
1943 - Count Fleet
1946 - Assault
1948 - Citation
18. S.R. "Tubby" Davis needed to distinguish his restauraunt in Marietta, Georgia. What 'landmark' did he create for this purpose?
-- The Big Chicken, which is now owned by KFC
www.dcltribute.com/bigchicken/
