Question: When the Latin alphabet was introduced to Old English, what letter was the same as v?
Answer: u

Question: Along with k and z, what Latin letter was not used in Old English?
Answer: q

Question: What is the term for the letter þ?
Answer: thorn

Question: What number was the Tironian note visually similar to?
Answer: ƿ

Question: What was the term for the letter ƿ?
Answer: wynn

Question: What is regarded as the greatest literary work in Old English?
Answer: Beowulf

Question: About how many lines was Beowulf?
Answer: 3,000

Question: Who was Hrothgar a descendant of?
Answer: Scyld

Question: Who adopted Hrothgar's ancestor?
Answer: a noble family

Question: To what language group does Old English belong?
Answer: West Germanic

Question: Along with Old Saxon, what language is closely related to Old English?
Answer: Old Frisian

Question: To what modern language is Old English similar?
Answer: German

Question: In what century did the Latin alphabet replace the runic system in Old English writing?
Answer: 9th

Question: Who was known by the nickname "the Grammarian"?
Answer: Ælfric of Eynsham

Question: What churchman was influential in the development of the Winchester standard?
Answer: Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester

Question: In what century did the Winchester standard arise?
Answer: 10th

Question: What is another term for the Winchester standard?
Answer: Late West Saxon

Question: What event led to English temporarily losing its importance as a literary language?
Answer: the Norman Conquest

Question: For about how many years was Old English used?
Answer: 700

Question: In what century was Old English first used?
Answer: 5th

Question: In what century did Old English cease to be used?
Answer: 11th

Question: According to Albert Baugh, what was the period in which Old English was used?
Answer: 450 to 1150

Question: About what percentage of Old English words are not present in Modern English?
Answer: 85

Question: From what Old English dialect is the standard for of Modern English descended?
Answer: Mercian

Question: From what Old English dialect did Scots derive?
Answer: Northumbrian

Question: Along with centralization, what reason is given for the lack of records in non-Wessex dialects after the unification of Alfred?
Answer: the Viking invasions

Question: What modern dialect is sometimes regarded as being similar to that of the historical Kingdom of Wessex?
Answer: Somerset

Question: What language influenced Old English as a result of the Viking invasions?
Answer: Danish

Question: What language was spoken in Northern England after the Viking invasions?
Answer: Old Norse

Question: Between the English and Scandinavian language, what elements were most different?
Answer: inflectional

Question: What trait does Old English possess that Modern English lacks?
Answer: morphological diversity

Question: Along with the nominative, genitive, dative and instrumental, what case did Old English possess?
Answer: accusative

Question: The Modern English ending -'s is derived from what ending in Old English?
Answer: -es

Question: In Old English, noun endings vary on what basis?
Answer: their case

Question: What language had the greatest influence on English?
Answer: Old Norse

Question: What was the name of the area in England ruled by the Vikings?
Answer: the Danelaw

Question: Who argued that the influence of Old Norse caused English to become a clearer, stronger and more direct language?
Answer: Simeon Potter

Question: What parts of English grammar declined as a result of Old Norse influence?
Answer: word-endings

Question: Along with the present, what was a verb tense in Old English?
Answer: past

Question: What were the three moods that caused verb variation in Old English?
Answer: indicative, subjunctive and imperative

Question: Along with the first and second, what person influenced verb variation in Old English?
Answer: third

Question: What is an example of a suffix used by Old English weak verbs?
Answer: -de

Question: How did Old English strong verbs express the past tense?
Answer: altering the root vowel

Question: What language family does Old English belong to?
Answer: West Germanic

Question: What is another name for Ingvaeonic?
Answer: North Sea Germanic

Question: In what century did Old English first develop?
Answer: 5th

Question: What Anglo-Saxon kingdom ruled parts of modern-day Scotland?
Answer: Northumbria

Question: What language was spoken in Cornwall?
Answer: Medieval Cornish

Question: What is an important Old English historical record?
Answer: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Question: What is an important Old English religious poem?
Answer: Cædmon's Hymn

Question: What type of literary work is Beowulf?
Answer: an epic poem

Question: Who is the earliest English poet known by name?
Answer: Cædmon

Question: Where did Cædmon live?
Answer: Whitby

Question: What is another name for Anglo-Frisian?
Answer: North Sea Germanic

Question: What language family did Common Brittonic belong to?
Answer: Celtic

Question: How was the Latin language brought to Britain?
Answer: Roman invasion

Question: In what century did Scandinavian settlement begin in northern England?
Answer: 9th

Question: Along with the Angles and Saxons, what tribe spoke Anglo-Frisian?
Answer: Jutes

Question: What treatise was written by Pope Gregory?
Answer: Pastoral Care

Question: What dialect did Alfred's government use?
Answer: West Saxon

Question: In what century did Alfred unify Anglo-Saxon England?
Answer: 9th

Question: When did Alfred the Great's reign begin?
Answer: 871

Question: What king unified the Anglo-Saxon realms in England?
Answer: Alfred the Great

Question: Along with Northumbria, what kingdom was invaded by the Vikings?
Answer: Mercia

Question: Along with the part of Mercia not conquered by the Vikings, what other kingdom was combined with Wessex by Alfred?
Answer: Kent

Question: What is the modern name for the West Saxon dialect of Alfred's time?
Answer: Early West Saxon

Question: From what language was literature notably translated into West Saxon?
Answer: Latin

Question: North of what river in Northumbria was the kingdom not overrun by the Vikings?
Answer: Tyne

Question: During what century did Cnut rule?
Answer: 11th

Question: What was Cnut's nationality?
Answer: Danish

Question: During what century did Scandinavians begin to settle in England?
Answer: 9th

Question: What language was a source for English loanwords that are still used today?
Answer: Old Norse

Question: Along with eastern England, what part of England contains many place names of Scandinavian origin?
Answer: northern

Question: What form of c, when written, contains a dot over the letter?
Answer: palatal

Question: What conventional letter from the Latin alphabet typically replaces the wynn from Old English?
Answer: w

Question: What letter from the Latin alphabet replaces the Old English insular G?
Answer: g

Question: What Latin letter is used in place of the Old English long S?
Answer: s

Question: When eth is replaced, what is it replaced by?
Answer: thorn

Question: What modern religion sometimes uses Old English?
Answer: Neo-Paganism

Question: What hobby champions the use of Old English?
Answer: Historical re-enactment

Question: Along with Tolkien, what modern scholar notably made use of Old English?
Answer: Alistair Campbell

Question: What Wikipedia project makes use of the Old English language?
Answer: the Old English Wikipedia

Question: What is a term for modern texts written in Old English?
Answer: Neo-Old English

Question: What type of carrier is the largest?
Answer: fleet carrier

Question: What capability does a fleet carrier offer?
Answer: offensive

Question: What purpose were excort carriers developed for?
Answer: to provide defense for convoys of ships

Question: What were most escort carriers built from?
Answer: mercantile hulls