English Grammar
What do you call the tense you use for habits?
present simple
The money you get when you take back something you bought in a shop.
refund
Great Britain is a
democracy
monarchy
republic
monarchy
What nationality were the inventors of the first mass produced toothbrush?
English in 1770
Whose popstar's name is also a colour?
Pink
What do you call the tense you use for actions that happened but are important now or that are linked to the present?
present perfect
A person from Poland is a
Polish
Pole
polish
Polish
Pole
How old is the Queen of England? +/- 5 tolerance
90
96
88
96
What is a sabbatical?
a holiday
a timeout
a gown
a hymn
timeout
Whose popstar's fans are called "Beliebers"
Justin Bieber
What is the past participle of "swim"?
swum
Where Muslims worship
mosque
How many parts make up Great Britain?
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
In which century did Thomas Savory invent the first steam engine?
17th
16th
18th
in 1698 (17th century)
From which song lyrics are these lines “Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh”?
Jingle Bells
What is the past tense form of the verb "shut"?
shut
a line of people waiting is a
qu
queu
queue
queue
The French call the sea between France and England "La Manche", what is it in English?
The English Channel
What did the chemist George Mackintosh invent in 1823?
The Mackintosh raincoat. His innovation enabled rubber to be placed inside fabric and maintain its shape and not degrade during extremes in temperature throughout summer and winter.
Which two instruments can Ed Sheeran play?
The piano and the guitar
What's the comparative form of "badly"?
worse
the rulers of a country sitting in parliament make up the
government
governement
gouvernment
government
Can you name the fictional private detective created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Sherlock Holmes
What did Tim Berners-Lee invent in 1989?
The World Wide Web
Which singer's last name is also a planet?
Bruno Mars
Freddy Mercury