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/ˈɡrʌdʒɪŋli/
grudgingly
in a way that suggests that something bad is going to happen in the future
ominously
“How many buns make five?”
“Two and a half"
“Two and a half buns"
“It’s two and a half. I always share my buns with Mr Gruber when we have our elevenses and I break them in half.”
Paddington answers the question of General Knowledge categorie.
False (he chose another categorie - Mathematics)
/dɪsˈteɪstfʊlɪ/
distastefully
to get money or some advantage from somebody by cheating them, to cheat
to diddle
“If you had a piece of wood eight feet long and you cut it in half, and if you cut the two pieces you then have into half, and if you then cut all the pieces into half again how many pieces would you have?”
“Eight”
“Eight pieces”
Right answer
Paddington goes to the show with Mr Brown.
False (he went there with Mr Gruber)
/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdiə/
encyclopedia
to become gradually weaker and finally disappear
to die away
"How long will each of the pieces be?”
“Eight feet”
“Eight feet long”
Paddington cuts his piece of wood down the middle, so he had eight pieces eight feet long.
Playfair asked Paddington 5 questions.
False (he asks 3 questions and one of them is divided into 2 parts)
/əˈpruːvɪŋli/
approvingly
to be frightening and make you worried because something seems hard to avoid
to loom large
“If it takes two men twenty minutes to fill a fifty-gallon bath full of water using one tap, how long will it take one man to fill the same bath using both taps.
“No time at all"
“No time at all"
“But you said it was the same bath,” explained Paddington. “The first two men had already filled it once, and you didn’t say anything about pulling the plug out.”
Paddington hits the jackpot!
True (he answered all the questions right nevertheless he got them in his way of thinking)