History
What year did World War 1 start?
1914
What does it mean that English is a SVO language?
Sentence structure is Subject-Verb-Object. E.g. "Anton ran to the train"
How many presidents have the US had?
46
The name of the river running through London?
Thames
Name the author of Othello, A Midsommer Night's Dream and Hamlet.
William Shakespeare
What year was the Declaration of Independence written?
6th of July 1776
Name one definite article
"the"
The term "Lingua Franca" refers to?
"a language or dialec used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect"
The Capital of New Zealand is...
Wellington
What is the structure of a Sonnet?
3 quatrains and one couplet
What year did Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa?
1994
In which cases does do we add "-es" to a plural verb instead of an "-s"?
Verbs that end in an -s or -sh sound takes the form -es
Miss → Misses
Catch → Catches
Name all the planets in our solar system, in order.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
The name of a druid monument in Wiltshere county in Southern England?
Stonehenge
This famous author wrote The Chronicles of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
Who is the founding father of Modern Rhetoric?
Aristotle
Sentences that make no sense by themselves and need context to be understandable.
= Grammatically incomplete sentences.
What is the definition of "Anaphora"?
An anaphora is a rhetorical device in which a word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases.
The US has how many states?
50 (+DC)
This author wrote Paradise Lost.
John Milton
What is the name of the first English settlement in North America and when was it settled?
Jamestown, Virginia. 1607
A Subject-Verb agreement problem refers to...?
That the verb changes form depending on if the subject is in the singular or plural form. E.g. "Anton and Fabian sing together" but "Anton sings alone"
How many Grammy Awards does Beyonce have?
28
Where is Washington State and Washington DC located?
Washington State is located on the west coast and DC on the east coast between Virginia and Maryland.
What is the name of Hemingway's famous writing style?
The iceberg principle