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Language and Grammar
British and American history and society
Quotes
100
wrote "As You Like It" and "Othello"
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
The Danish word for megalomania
What is storhedsvanvid?
100
The Danish word for adverb
What is biord?
100
British Prime Minister known as the Iron Lady
Who is Margareth Thatcher?
100
said "I can resist anything but temptation"
Who is Oscar Wilde?
200
The writer behind the concept "Big Brother"
Who is George Orwell?
200
Australian word meaning "hello"
What is "G'day"?
200
The past tense of "to bring"?
What is "brought"?
200
War which lasted from 1861-1865
What is The American Civil War?
200
Ended his hunger strike by saying "Me so hungy"
Who is Homer J. Simpson?
300
Author who wrote "Hard Times" and "David Copperfield"
Who is Charles Dickens?
300
word for the kind of English spoken by Hispanic immigrants in the US
What is Spanglish?
300
The language spoken by a particular social class
What is a sociolect?
300
The right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the American Constitution
What is the right to bear arms?
300
said "All the world's a stage"
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature who wrote about bull fighting and war and ended up committing suicide
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
name for words such as "buzz" which sound like the sound they refer to
What is onomatopoeia?
400
are added to the end of a word, e.g. -ish
What is a suffix?
400
The first woman to rule England
Who was Queen Elisabeth I?
400
Politician who defined democracy as "Government of the people, by the people and for the people"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
Polish author who wrote several critically acclaimed novels in English, his third language
Who was Joseph Conrad?
500
the name of the first speech given by an American President
What is an inauguration speech?
500
an abbreviation consisting of letters that form a word, e.g. NATO for The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What is an acronym?
500
Man who assasinated President Lincoln in a theatre
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
500
The main character of this novel says: Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that?
What is "Trainspotting"?
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