| Statement | (T)rue or (F)alse |
|---|
| All airline pilots must learn and use English, regardless of their country of origin. | |
| The phrase 'the whole nine yards' was coined by legendary NFL coach, Vince Lombardi. | |
| There are more English speakers in Nigeria than in the United States. | |
| The word 'goodbye' originated as a contraction of the phrase 'God be with ye'. | |
| William Shakespeare invented the words 'nerd', 'teleport', and 'brainwash'. | |
| Silbo Gomero is a language used in the Canary Islands that is comprised entirely of whistling. | |
| The Kazakh language has no words for 'left' or 'right', but uses cardinal directions instead. | |
| The term for 'roller coasters' in Russian translates to 'American Mountains.' | |
| Over half of the countries of the world list Spanish as an official language. | |
| A 1,200-person community in northern Alberta speaks Cushawn, a language created by C.S. Lewis. | |
| The Welsh word 'chwarae' is pronounced almost identically to the English word 'gravel'. | |
| The Inca had no written language, but stored & transferred information via a system of knots in rope. | |
| Icelandic has changed so little in 1,000 years that modern speakers can easily read the ancient Sagas. | |
| ATMs in Vatican City offer Latin as a language display option. | |
| 15-20% of the world's existing languages originated on the island of New Guinea. | |
| Cambodia's Khmer alphabet has only 6 letters. | |
| The bird Americans call 'Turkey' is called an India in Türkiye, and a Peru in Portuguese. | |
| More people are fluent in Klingon than are fluent in Finnish. | |
| The Rosetta Stone wasn't designed as a translation tool, but is a transcript of a governmental decree. | |
| There is no way to express the number 2,999 in standard Roman numerals. | |
| The bird Americans call 'Turkey' is called an India in Türkiye, and a Peru in Portuguese. | |
| The term for 'roller coasters' in Russian translates to 'American Mountains.' | |
| All airline pilots must learn and use English, regardless of their country of origin. | |
| 15-20% of the world's existing languages originated on the island of New Guinea. | |
| The Inca had no written language, but stored & transferred information via a system of knots in rope. | |
| ATMs in Vatican City offer Latin as a language display option. | |
| The word 'goodbye' originated as a contraction of the phrase 'God be with ye'. | |
| The Rosetta Stone wasn't designed as a translation tool, but is a transcript of a governmental decree. | |
| Silbo Gomero is a language used in the Canary Islands that is comprised entirely of whistling. | |
| Icelandic has changed so little in 1,000 years that modern speakers can easily read the ancient Sagas. | |
| There are more English speakers in Nigeria than in the United States. | |
| William Shakespeare invented the words 'nerd', 'teleport', and 'brainwash'. | |
| The Kazakh language has no words for 'left' or 'right', but uses cardinal directions instead. | |
| More people are fluent in Klingon than are fluent in Finnish. | |
| The Welsh word 'chwarae' is pronounced almost identically to the English word 'gravel'. | |
| Cambodia's Khmer alphabet has only 6 letters. | |
| Over half of the countries of the world list Spanish as an official language. | |
| There is no way to express the number 2,999 in standard Roman numerals. | |
| The phrase 'the whole nine yards' was coined by legendary NFL coach, Vince Lombardi. | |
| A 1,200-person community in northern Alberta speaks Cushawn, a language created by C.S. Lewis. | |
