Words Quiz 1 (Questions only)

1. What is unusual about the word SUBCONTINENTAL? (hint: it is one of four of it's kind in the English language and the answer is related to how the word is written)

2. In the famous sea shanty 'Drunken Sailor', the following line appears; 
    "Keelhaul him, keelhaul him, Early in the morning."
What does the word Keelhaul mean?

3. What is the Romanian word for 'Son of the devil' or 'Son of the dragon'?

4. What is unusual about the fifty-thousand word book entitled 'Gadsby', written by Ernest Vincent Wright in 1939?

5. There exists only one word in the English language that when it is capitalised, it has a completely different meaning. What is that word?

6. A statistical study of the most commonly misspelled words ocurring in Web-logs (blogs) performed by internet demi-god Google, has produced a list of 25 of the most frequently misspelled words online. Name five of them.

7. There are two words in English (which are not brand names which have been entered into the dictionary due to their common usage,) that have six letters but no vowels. One of the two words is syzygy which refers to the alignment of three celestial objects. What is the other six-letter word missing a vowel?

8. Which words, with exception of "hungry" and "angry" end with the letters "gry"?

9. The longest word to appear in standard English dictionaries is: 
    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
spanning a whopping 45 letters. What does this word refer to?

10. The English word 'GAMBRINOUS' means to be full of what?

11. A ROTAVATOR is defined as a machine with a rotating blade for breaking up the soil. What is so unusual about this word?

12. What is interesting about this sentence:
    "Serrated Nor'wester sea-breezes caress rambling sea-lion kumquat excursion"?