UK vs US
What are French fries / fries?
This country lies directly south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
This British band released Hey Jude and Let It Be.
Who are the Beatles?
This American president was assassinated in 1865 shortly after the end of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This country has the largest population of native English speakers.
What is the United States of America?
A British person might say queue, but this is what an American would say.
What is line?
This city is the capital of Scotland.
What is Edinburgh?
This famous Irish holiday is celebrated on 17 March.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
English is widely used in India, Singapore and Nigeria partly because these countries were once part of this global empire.
What is the British Empire?
This Asian country has English as one of its official languages and is home to cities such as Mumbai and Delhi.
What is India?
Americans usually say apartment, but this is the common British word.
What is flat?
This US territory in the Caribbean has both Spanish and English as official languages.
What is Puerto Rico?
This sport, traditionally associated with England, uses a bat, wickerts and a ball.
What is cricket?
Who is Queen Victoria?
This Caribbean country has Kingston as its capital and English as its official language.
What is Jamaica?
In the UK, people usually call this part of a car the boot.
What is the trunk?
This Canadian province is mainly French-speaking.
What is Quebec?
This New Zealand film director directed The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Who is Peter Jackson?
This country sold Alaska to the United States in 1867.
What is Russia?
The Maori are the indigenous people of this English-speaking country.
What is New Zealand?
In British English, a public school traditionally means this type of school.
A private fee-paying school.
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
Which two teams have won the most English league titles in football?
What is Manchester United and Liverpool?
This 1215 document forced King John of England to accept limits on royal power.
What is the Magna Carta?
What linguistic term describes a language used between people who do not share the same first language?
What is a lingua franca?