QUESTION: What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language? ANSWER: I am.
Tag Archive: Trivia Tuesday
Jul 25
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: The Septet Homophone
QUESTION: What is the one septet of homophones in the English language? ANSWER: raise, rays, raze (to completely destroy), rase (to erase), rehs (mixtures of salts found in India), res (steps on the musical scale), reis (a currency unit in Brazil and Portugal).
May 23
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday
QUESTION: What is the longest word that can be typed using the top row of the QWERTY keyboard? ANSWER: Typewriter.
Apr 04
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday
QUESTION: A hammer and a nail cost $1.10, and the hammer costs one dollar more than the nail. How much does the nail cost? ANSWER: 5 cents. Source: I got this riddle from a Business Insider article that asked successful executives what questions they ask potential employees during interviews. This is the question that Jeff …
Jan 10
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: Apiology
QUESTION: Apiology is the study of what? ANSWER: Apiology is the study of bees.
Dec 27
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: What Is The Largest Cardinal Number?
QUESTION: What is the largest cardinal number? ANSWER: According to The Grammar Bible, the largest counting number is called a googolplex. A googolplex is 10 raised to the power of googol. A googol is ten raised to the power of 100. To write out a googolplex in numerical form, you have to write the number …
Dec 20
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday: Who Invented Punctuation?
QUESTION: Who invented punctuation? ANSWER: According to, “The Grammar Bible,” most scholars credit Aristophanes of Byzantium with the creation of punctuation.
Nov 01
I Love Steno Trivia Tuesday
QUESTION: What classic story do the words “Lilliputian” and “Brobdingnagian” originate from? ANSWER: Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift. Lilliputian, which means, “very small,” comes from a locality in the tome, Lilliput, where very tiny people lived. Brobdingnagian, which means, “very large,” comes from a geographic location in Gulliver’s Travels, Brobdingnag, where giants resided. [Source: The …
