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 1, with a googol of zeroes.

QUESTION: Who invented punctuation?

ANSWER: According to, “The Grammar Bible,” most scholars credit Aristophanes of Byzantium with the creation of punctuation.

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 Grammar Bible]

QUESTION: Which state has the highest level of employment for court reporters?

ANSWER: According to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May 2015 tabulation, the state of Maryland employs the most court reporters in the United States.

QUESTION: How many languages are there in the world?

ANSWER: According to BBC, there are about 7,000 different languages in the world. However, most of the languages in existence are not spoken by a large population of people. The BBC states that 90% of the existing languages are spoken by less than 100,000, and 46 languages have a solitary speaker.

QUESTION: What is the most widely spoken language in the world?

ANSWER: Mandarin Chinese. According to Ethnologue, 1,310,000,000 people speak Mandarin Chinese.

QUESTION: In what year was the stenography machine invented?

ANSWER: In 1879, the stenography machine was invented and patented by Miles Bartholomew.