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Questions
Vocabulary
George's Marvellous Medicine
Verbs
100

Who performed in this year's Superbowl half-time show?

Bad Bunny

100
If a question can be answered in a single word, what type of question is it?

Closed question

100

How do we call something (e.g. a statement) that is not objective?

Biased

100

What colour is the grandmother's medicine?

Brown

100

Is the verb TEACH regular or irregular?

Irregular

200

What was the name of the space mission that orbited the Moon last month?

Artemis II

200

A rhetorical question does not expect or require an answer. True or false?

True

200

What do we call a young plant that has just grown from a seed?

Seedling

200

Why does George decide to make a medicine for his grandmother?

Because she treats him badly and he wants to punish her

200

How do we form the past simple and past participle of regular verbs?

By adding -ed to the infinitive (e.g. play - played - played)

300

Who were the three main artists in Coachella 2026?

Karol G, Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber

300

"Why is AI bad for humanity?"

Open or closed question?

Open

300

Name two synonyms for the word failure

Fiasco, debacle

300

What happens to George's grandmother at the end of the book?

She disappears

300

What is special about the verbs DREAM, BURN and LEARN? 

They have both regular (dreamed, burned, learned) and irregular (dreamt, burnt, learnt) forms

400

Where does magma come from?

The Earth's mantle

400

What is a leading question?

It's a type of question that suggests a particular answer

400

Name two nouns that match the definition of "a sudden event that causes great trouble and destruction"

Catastrophe, disaster, apocalypse, cataclysm, calamity.

400

What is George's surname?

Kranky

400

If the past simple is BROUGHT, what is the infinitive?

Bring

500

Why are black objects hotter?

Because black objects absorb almost all different light wavelengths and transform them into heat

500

"Our sandwiches are the best in town, right?"

Leading or rhetorical question?

Leading

500

What adjective means "covered in mud or dirt"?

Mucky

500

Name 5 ingredients of the original medicine created by George

  • Golden gloss hair shampoo
  • Toothpaste
  • Superfoam shaving soap
  • Vitamin enriched face cream
  • Scarlet nail varnish
  • Hair remover
  • Dishworth's famous dandruff cure
  • Brillident false teeth cleaner
  • Nevermore ponking deodorant spray
  • Liquid paraffin
  • Helga's hairset
  • Perfume: 'Flowers of turnips'
  • Pink plaster powder
  • Lipsticks
  • Superwhite washing powder
  • Waxwell floor polish
  • Flea powder for dogs
  • Canary seed
  • Dark tan shoe polish
  • Gin
  • Curry powder
  • Mustard powder
  • 'Extra hot' chilli sauce
  • Black peppercorns
  • Horseradish sauce
  • Orange powder for foul chickens
  • Purple pills for hoarse horses
  • Thick yellowish liquid for cows
  • Red sheep dip
  • Green pig pills for swine sickness
  • Engine oil
  • Antifreeze
  • Grease
  • Dark brown gloss paint
500

What are the past simple and past participle forms of the verb TAKE?

take - took - taken