This document contains trivia about literature, languages, and other topics. It provides definitions for terms like novella, magazine, metre, haiku, and sonnet. It also identifies famous writers like Amado Hernandez, Jose Villa, Nick Joaquin, René Descartes, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, and Sully Prudhomme. Additionally, it shares fun facts about topics like bibliophiles, cannibalism, aglets, reeding on coins, ghostwriters, and the lunula on fingernails.

1. ENGLISH
Trivia
ENGLISH
Trivia
By Nurhannie Lomabao

2. Amado V. Hernandez
National Artist of the Philippines
for Literature in 1973.
• Makata ng Manggagawa
• Mga Ibong Mandaragit

3. Jose Garcia Villa
National Artist of the Philippines
for Literature in 1973.
• DOVEGLION (Dove, Eagle, Lion)
• Footnote to Youth

4. Nick Joaquin
National Artist of the Philippines
for Literature in 1976.
• Filipino-Spanish Themes
• “Quijano de Manila”
• E.A. Poe of the Philippines: Drunkard Writers

5. Novella
What word, extended from a more popular term,
refers to a fictional book of between 20,000 and
50,000 words?

6. René Descartes
'Cogito, ergo sum’
(I think, therefore I am)?

7. Lewis Carroll
What was the pen-name
of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Alice in Wonderland

8. Magazine
What term originally meaning 'storehouse'
referred, and still refers, to a periodical of
various content and imaginative writing?

9. The Renaissance
(literally meaning rebirth)
The period between 1450 and 1600 in European
development is known by what term, initially used by
Italian scholars to express the rediscovery of ancient
Roman and Greek culture?

10. Metre (or meter)
What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to
the rhythm of a line of verse?

11. 17
Japanese three-line verses called Haiku
contain how many syllables?

12. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49)
Which pioneering American poet and story-
teller wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?

13. Sully Prudhomme
A French writer who was the first winner of
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901?

14. Sonnet
What is the technical name for a fourteen-lined poem
in rhymed iambic pentameters?

15. Charles Dickens
"Make then laugh; make them cry; make them
wait..." was a personal maxim of which novelist?

16. A bibliophile is a collector of rare
books.
A bibliopole is a seller of rare
books

17. A speleologist studies caves.

18. Cannibalism, eating human flesh,
is also called anthropophagy.

19. The last thing to happen is the ultimate.
The next to last is the penultimate.
The second to last is the antepenultimate.

20. The plastic things on the end of
shoelaces are called aglets.

21. The ridges on the sides of coins ar
e called reeding or milling.

22. The side of a hammer is a cheek.

23. entomology
The study of insects
etymology
The study of word origins

24. The symbol on the "pound" key (#)
is called an octothorpe.

25. The two lines that connect your top
lip to the bottom of your nose are
known as the philtrum.

26. The word "assassination" was
invented by Shakespeare.

27. The word "karate" means
"empty hand."

28. The word "samba" means
"to rub navels together."

29. The world's largest alphabet is
CAMBODIAN, with 74 letters.

30. The ZIP in Zipcode stands for
"Zoning Improvement Plan."

31. The most widely spoken
language in the world is Mandarin
Chinese. There are 885,000,000
people in China that speak that
language.

32. The most widely spoken
language in the world is Mandarin
Chinese. There are 885,000,000
people in China that speak that
language.

33. Bousterophedon
the ancient Greeks form of writing

34. Phoenicians
The Alphabet comes from the

35. Ghostwriter
pens an anonymous book

36. Lunula
The white part of your fingernail

37. Lunula
The white part of your fingernail