Language
fiction vs. non-fiction
Politics & Culture
History
duel
100
What are the past tense (2nd form) and past participles (3rd form) of the verbs sell, buy and say?
sell - sold - sold
buy - bought - bought
say - said - said
100
Name the first victim of Macbeth.
Duncan, the King of Scotland
100
Name three values of the Declaration of Independence.
life - liberty - the pursuit of happiness
100
Name the year of the Brexit - the year Great Britain officially left the EU.
January 31, 2020
100
Write down as many synonyms as possible for thing.
object - element - item - factor - point - attribute - feature - phenomenon - entity - device
200
Correct the sentences:
Mitchell really makes the reader look different at the problem.
He lives self-sufficient.
Mitchell really makes the reader look differently.
He lives self-sufficiently.
200
Name three typical characteristics of a fictional work.
characters (round vs. flat)
plot
setting
narrative perspective
200
Name the three branches of the US government.
200
Name goods that the British colonizers exported to Great Britain from their colonies?
tea - sugar - rubber - teak - spices - cotton - coffee - fabrics ...
200
Write down as many stylistic devices as you can in 30 seconds.
alliteration - anaphora - ellipsis - simile - metaphor - hyperbole - irony - personifcation - ...
300
What is the difference between they're, their and there?
they're = 3rd person plural personal pronoun + form of be
My friends are waiting outside. They're waiting for me.their = 3rd person plural possessive pronoun
My cats are grey and black. Their names are Mina and Mizzie.
there = adverb, pronoun, adjective, expletive or interjection
Stand there until its your turn. (adverb)
Get away from there. (pronoun)
My dad is always there for me. (adjective)
There are yellow flowers everywhere. (expletive)
There now you've done it! (interjection)
300
Name the three most common narrative perspectives in fiction.
3rd person omniscient narrator
3rd person limited narrator
1st person narrator
300
Name four forms of protest we talked about in class and give an example each.
riot - Stonewall Riot (NYC)
movements - Me too in the USA
boycott - Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks)
demonstration - BLM protest marches in the USA
300
Name five US presidents.
in no particular order:
George Washington - Abraham Lincoln - John F. Kennedy - Bill Clinton - George W. Bush - Barack Obama - Donald Trump - Joe Biden - Richard Nixon
300
Write down as many British cities as you can in 30 seconds.
London - Bristol- Manchester - Cardiff - Belfast - Edinburgh - Glasgow - Cambridge - Oxford - Sheffield - Birmingham - Liverpool - Nottingham - York -Leeds - Plymouth - Portsmouth - Southampton - Norwich - Coventry - Salisbury - ...
400
What is the difference between the operators assess, justify and comment?
assess = provide pro and contra arguments on a topic in a balanced way
justify = show adequate grounds for decisions
comment = clearly state your opinion on a topic and support your views with evidence
400
Name five non-fictional text types.
magazine and newspaper articles, comment, report, academic paper, letter to the editor, blog entry, online article, ...
400
Which other US American stereotypes can you think of?
bad education - chasing the American Dream - fast food - loud - super friendly - superficial - the greatest country on earth - ...
400
Why did the sun never set on the empire?
The phrase was used for the British Empire (and others) to denote that in at least one part of the extensive territory of the empire the sun shone.
400
Write down as many US American actors and actresses as possible in 30 seconds.
Kevin Costner - Timothée Chalamet - Jack Nicholson - Robert Downey Jr. - Tom Hanks - Brad Pitt - Tom Cruise - Ben Stiller - Leonardo DiCaprio - Johnny Depp - Jim Carrey - Cameron Diaz - Julia Roberts - Meryl Streep - Jody Foster - Scarlett Johannson - Natalie Portman - Reese Witherspoon - Amy Adams - Sandra Bullock - Jennifer Aniston - Jennifer Garner - America Ferrera - Angelina Jolie - Demi Moore - Anne Hathaway - Jennifer Lawrence - Gwyneth Paltrow
500
Try to correctly (!) pronounce as many of the following British towns as possible:
Leicester
Worcestershire
Greenwich
Leominister
Gloucester
Leicester - pronounced Lester
Worcestershire - pronounced Wustershuh
Leominster - pronounced Lemster
Greenwich - pronounced Grenich
Gloucester - Gloster
500
Which sub-genre of non-fiction combines factual accuracy and narrative storytelling techniques typically found in fiction?
creative non-fiction
500
Name at least five sights and say in which cities or states you can find the sights.
bonus question: Which sights do not belong to the USA?
Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) - the Empire State Building (NYC) - the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) - the Bean (Chicago) - the Obelisk (Washington, D.C.) - the Hollywood sign (California) - the Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) - the Liberty Bell (Philadelphia) - Walt Disney World's Epcot Center (Orlando) - Central Park (NYC) - the White House (Washington, D.C.) - Mount Denali (Alaska) - the Space Needle (Seattle) - the Gateway Arch (St. Louis) - the Chrysler Building (NYC) - World Trade Center (NYC) - Willis Tower (Chicago)
bonus: the CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) and Quebec Town Hall (Quebec, Canada)
500
What is the following picture about?/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/61/bc/61bc38a7-853f-4c6b-823e-71c95d62687d/manifest_destiny.jpg)
It's called American Progress and depicts the frontier myth and the expansion of the US towards the west.
500
Write down as many DC and Marvel characters as you can in 30 seconds.
Marvel: Ant Man, Black Panther, Black Mamba, Black Widow, Captain America, Deadpool, Hulk, Iron Man, the Sandman, Spiderman, X-Man
DC: Aquaman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Batman, Shazam, Harley Quinn, The Joker, Black Manta, Lex Luthor, Green Lantern, Deadshot, Cyborg