Vocabulary & Grammar 1
Vocabulary & Grammar 2
Democracy & Citizenship
Holidays
Public Health & Life Skills
100
Describe in English what a noun is.
A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea.
100
British vs. American:
What is the british word for "cookie"?
Bisquit.
100
Which Nobel Price did Nelson Mandela win in 1993?
Nobel Peace Price
100
When do we celebrate Valentine's day?
The 14th of February.
100
Which movie starring Hilary Swank did we watch last year?
Freedom Writers
200
What is the difference between chips in British English and American English?
BE- French fries
AE- Potato chips
200
What is an irregular verb?
A verb in which the past tense is not formed by adding the usual -ed ending.
200
Who stated the quote “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”?
Nelson Mandela
200
When do we celebrate International Women’s Day?
The 8th of March.
200
What is "moral responsibility" in norwegian?
Moralsk ansvar.
300
Name at least two tenses in English.
Simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, future...
300
Name at least four punctuation marks in English.
Period (full stop), comma, apostrophe, quotation, question, exclamation, brackets, braces, parenthesis, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, semicolon.
300
What is the Declaration of Human Rights in Norwegian?
Menneskerettighetserklæringen.
300
What is an Advent wreath in Norwegian?
Adventskrans.
300
According to Erin Gruwell (the teacher in "Freedom Writers"), which gang is the most famous gang in history?
The Nazis.
400
What is the genitive/possessive case in grammar?
The genitive case is when we add apostrophe S ('s) to show possession, that something belongs to another or a type of relationship between things.
400
What is a contraction?
Norwegian: kontraksjon.
A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds. 
400
Which island was Nelson Mandela sentenced to prison on?
Robben Island
400
When does Advent begin?
It begins on the Sunday nearest November 30, the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle, and covers four Sundays.
400
Choose one question:
1. How old was Anne Frank when she died?
2. In which concentration camp did Anne Frank die?
3. In which city do you find the Anne Frank Museum?
1. 15 years old.
2. Bergen-Belsen
3. Amsterdam
500
When do we use it is/there is?
We use "it" when we're talking about the weather, temperature, time, and distance.
We use "there" when we're talking about something that exists. In addition, we use it for quantity and amount, as well as placement and positions.
500
What does "FANBOYS" stand for in grammar?
500
Describe in English what apartheid is/was.
(Afrikaans: “apartness”) A policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
500
Why does South Africa celebrate its ownNational Women’s Day on the 9th of August every year?
It honors a demonstration by about 20,000 South African women on August 9, 1956. The women were protesting a law made by the white-run apartheid government.
500
Who was Miep Gies?
The daughter of the family that sheltered Anne Frank.