Super Long Words

Prepare for prolongation of the English language in this trivia game on long words that should tickle the fancy of all sesquipedalians.

15 questions · Published May 12, 2025

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

Multiple Choice
1. What Disney character sings about the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in a famous song?
Song writers Robert and Richard Sherman created the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" for the 1964 film "Mary Poppins," but it proved so popular it is now formally included in some dictionaries meaning "extraordinarily good."
Multiple Choice
2. What does the silly-sounding word "discombobulated" mean?
"Discombobulated," which means "confused," is rooted in the United States' midwest. It's a fanciful alteration of "discomfited" which came into use around 1820.
Multiple Choice
3. Which of these musical instruments is a bagpipe, which has an acceptable alternate name of "doodlesack" in American English?
FUN FACT
The "doodlesack" in English, or the "dudelsack" in German, is the bagpipe, and despite being associated with Scotland has been traced all the way to 1,000 B.C. in Asia Minor.
Multiple Choice
4. Which of these words would best fit someone acting in a joking manner when they should be serious?
If a person is acting "facetiously" they are acting in a joking manner about a serious situation, or making jokes instead of being serious.
Multiple Choice
5. Someone suffering from "abibliophobia" is afraid of running out __________.
A person diagnosed with "abibliophobia" has an irrational fear of running out of books to read, though it can extend to any type of readable material.

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