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Question #1: Who was the founder of Esperanto?

Ferdinand de Saussure
J. R. R. Tolkien
Noam Chomsky
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof

The artificial language (AL) Esperanto was founded by the Polish oculist Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. It was first published in Russian in 1887 under the title ‘An International Language’ using the pseudonym ‘Doktoro Esperanto’ (‘Doctor Hopeful’).

Question #2: Which book is considered to be the world's oldest?

The Koran
Adam Bede's Historia
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Chanson de Roland

The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the first ever written book. Είναι γνωστό ότι έχει γραφτεί στην Σουμερία soon after 2000 BC.

Question #3: The name Edda stands for:

a collection of Illyrian poetry?
a collection of Old Norse literature?
a collection of Old French literature?
a collection of Shakespearean poetry?

Edda is the name of two separate collections of Old Norse literature. The Elder Edda, dating from the 9th century, consists of heroic and mythological poems; the Younger or Prose Edda was written (mainly in prose) in the early 13th century by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson.

Question #4: What is a reverse dictionary?

A dictionary which starts with the letter 'z' and ends with the letter 'a'
A dictionary listing words alphabetically from their last letter
A dictionary which provides etymological information
A dictionary which provides phonological information

A reverse dictionary is a dictionary listing words alphabetically from their last letter.

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