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Stars and Stripes vs the Union Jack

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Introduction:
"Both US and UK English spelling of words are accepted in FunTrivia quizzes. Neither is wrong with respect to the other, just different. This quiz will test your knowledge of differences in UK and US English usage."


1. Which one of the following is the UK English spelling of the word "color"?
    color
    colour
    collor
    cullor


2. Which one of the following would be counted as spelled incorrectly and not allowed at FunTrivia? haemoglobin, pediatrician, encyclopaedia
    haemoglobin
    They are all spelled correctly.
    pediatrician
    encyclopaedia


3. You're doing a quiz in the "Musicals Mixture" subcategory in Humanities and you come across a question that mentions the word "theatre". Is this word spelled correctly?
    Yes
    No


4. What is the UK English spelling of the colour "gray"?
    gray
    grey
    grae
    grayy


5. If you play quizzes in the health subcategories of Sci-Tech, you may come across the UK English spelling of the word "estrogen". Which of the following is it?
    estrogene
    estrogen
    oestrogen
    eestrogen


6. Americans will often pay for something by writing a "check". If someone living in the UK wanted to pay by the same method, what would they write?
    A chek.
    A check.
    A cheque.
    A checke.


7. What is the UK English spelling of the word "aluminum"?
    aluminium
    alluminum
    aluminum
    aluminnum


8. What is the UK English equivalent of the word "catalog"?
    catalog
    catalogg
    cattalog
    catalogue


9. The word "program" can have any number of meanings from a television show to a piece of computer software. In UK English usage, how is this word spelled when referring to a television show?
    program
    prowgram
    proggram
    programme


10. When published in the UK, the first book featuring Harry Potter was entitled "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone".
    True
    False


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