GRAMMAR
LITERATURE
RIDDLES
AE vs BE
IRREGULAR PL.
100

Change the sentence "I go to school everyday" to PAST SIMPLE TENSE

I went to school yesterday

100

Which author wrote "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"?

J. K. Rowling

100

What has to be broken before you can use it?

An Egg

100

In British English, crisps are _______ and chips are _______.

Chips and Fries

100

Plural of "Man"

Men

200

Change the sentence "The company has money problems" into PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

The company has been having money problems

200

Which genre is Romeo and Juliet?

Tragedy

200

What question can you never answer yes to?

Are you asleep?

200

The word ZEBRA is more likely to be pronounced as [ zeb-ruh ] by a speaker of …

British

200

Plural of "Goose"

Geese

300

Change the sentence "Novak Đoković won the Australian Open" into PASSIVE

The Australian Open was won by Novak Đoković

300

Who is responsible for writing "Don Quixote," a classic Spanish novel?

Miguel de Cervantes

300

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?  

There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.

300

What's the American English equivalent to a British car's "bonnet" and "boot"?

Hood and trunk

300

Plural of "Emphasis"

Emphases

400

Write the words in the brackets in the correct order to complete the sentence in REPORTED SPEECH

He asked me (bus/needed/for/which/he/the/center/town)

He asked me which bus he needed for the town center

400

What is an an invented prose narrative of significant length and complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience?

A novel

400

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Everyone on the boat is married

400

What is the British word for the American word PACIFIER?

A dummy

400

Plural of "Hippopotamus"

Hippopotami

500

Change the sentence "I am a candidate for parliament. I made a speech about poverty" into 3RD CONDITIONAL

If I hadn't been a candidate, I wouldn't have made a speech about poverty




500

A French writer penned "The Little Prince." Who was he?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

500

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

He was born on February 29.

500

Instead of the term COTTON CANDY, British English speakers are more likely to use the word …

Candyfloss

500

Plural of "Octopus"

Octopuses, Octopi, Octopodese