Statistics for Linguistic General Knowledge

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What type of language is primarily used in deaf communities?	Sign language	94%
What are "you", "we", and "they"?	Personal pronouns	92%
What do you call a person who speaks multiple languages?	Polyglot	89%
What do you call a word that qualifies or describes a noun?	Adjective	85%
What was the lingua franca of science until the early 19th century?	Latin	82%
What is the fourth official language of Switzerland besides German, French and Romansh?	Italian	77%
What do numerals denote?	Numbers	74%
What is the study of history of words and their origins called?	Etymology	71%
What do SVO and SOV refer to?	Word order	63%
What does IPA mean in the field of linguistics?	International Phonetic Alphabet or International Phonetic Association	60%
What is the official language of Cambodia?	Khmer	60%
What language was Beowulf first written in?	Old English	59%
What island country is called the linguistically most diverse country in the world with over 830 languages spoken there?	Papua New Guinea	57%
What do you call a language that is related to no other language?	Language isolate	54%
Which branch of the Afroasiatic language family does Arabic belong to?	Semitic	46%