Vocabulary
What's the name for a book that someone writes about their own life?
Autobiography
Which phrasal verb can be used to mean take care of: Look up or look after?
Look after
Which fantasy book series was written by JK Rowling?
Harry Potter
What is the process that plants use to turn sunlight into energy?
Photosynthesis
If someone starts an argument with a waiter in a restaurant they cause a _____
scene
She _________________ lunch by the time we arrived. (FINISH)
Had finished
What is the name of Huckleberry Finn’s best friend in the Mark Twain novel?
Tom Sawyer
In which European country would you find the Rijksmuseum?
The Netherlands
If something is disappointing it doesn't live up to the _____
expectations
If I __________ you, I would wait a while to begin investing.
Was/were
Which dystopian novel was adapted to a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdean?
The Hunger Games
In what US state is the city Los Angeles?
California
If something has a prolonged negative effect on something it t_____ _ t____
takes a toll
Spell the animal which is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae.
Hippopotamus
Which Bronte sister wrote Wuthering Heights?
Emily Bronte
What is the currency of the UK?
Pounds
What's the name for a first novel or album?
Debut
1945, the rivalry in military strength between the world’s great powers has produced a ________ balanced peace.
A presently
B precociously
C previously
D deviously
E precariously
precariously
Which Charles Dickens novel tells the tale of Scrooge being visited by 3 ghosts at Christmas?
A Christmas Carol
What are the three phases of water?
Solid, liquid, gas