Grammar
Formula for simple present:
subject+verb+s/es
What is REM?
Rapid eye movement
Which two U.S. states don’t observe Daylight Saving Time?
Hawaii and Arizona
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
In which European city would you find Orly airport?
Paris
Formula for simple past:
subject+verb or irregular verb + ed
What is fight or flight theory?
To run away or face your problems
What was the first state?
Delaware
With a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
A shirt
Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?
Switzerland
Formula for simple future:
subject+will/shall+verb
What is city tourism?
Tourism is a social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes.
Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton share what distinction among U.S. presidential candidates?
Won popular vote, lost electoral vote
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Drop the s
How many ribs are in a human body?
24
What is a suffix?
Suffixes are common endings to words
that carry meaning or change the meaning of
the stem (main) word or concept.
Which group of humans dream the most?
Infants
The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
France
Six glasses are in a row. The first three are filled with milk, and the last three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so that the full and the empty glasses alternate?
Pick up the second glass and pour the milk into the fifth glass and then put it back in the second position.
What country won the very first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
What are all 16 punctuation marks?
period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, colon, semicolon, en dash, em dash, slash, hyphen, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophe, quotation mark, ellipsis
What is deja vu?
a feeling of having already experienced the present situation
Which NFL team holds the record for the most Super Bowl appearances?
New England Patriots
What is the capital in Washington?
W
What does BMW stand for (in English)?
Bavarian Motor Works