Literature
Wiliam Shakespeare died in ...
a. 1515
b. 1616
c. 1717
d. 1818
e. he is still alive
b. in 1616
How do we call a place full of valuable objects?
a. an Aladdin's lamp
b. a Golden age
c. an Alladin's cave
c. an Alladin's cave
What does it mean to see "light at the end of the tunnel"?
Weep =
cry
Complete the sentence with the correct expression: "And when you get to this point, the golden .............. is to addd the beaten egg very slowly otherwise it will go lumpy."
rule
Which of the following authors WERE American?
a. Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway
b. William Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe
c. Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and William Blake
a. Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway
How do we call someone who expresses opinions about things they know very little about?
a. a rolling stone
b. a fair weather friend
c. an armchair critic
c. an armchair critic
What does it mean to "go out like a light"?
a. to die
b. to faint
c. to fall asleep immediately
c. to fall asleep immediately
Close one eyelid only =
wink
Complete the sentence with the correct expression: "The golden ............... of the railways was in the mid-twentieh century."
age
Which of the following British authors received the Nobel Prize for Literature?
a. Rudyard Kipling, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner
b. T.S. Eliot, Kazuo Ishiguro, Albert Camus
c. Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, T.S.Eliot
c. Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, T.S.Eliot
How do we call someone who does not want to join in and spoils the fun for everybody else:
a. a wet blanket
b. a wet carpet
c. a wet T-shirt
a. a wet blanket
What or who is a dark horse?
a. a bad surprise
b. a mysterious person
c. a traitor
d. a prisoner
b. a mysterious person
Look closely at (as if trying to see more clearly) =
peer
Complete the following sentence with the correct expression: "Do'nt be taken in by his sales patter, he's ....................... and will have you signing away your salary in no time."
a. golden-tongued
b. silver-tongued
c. diamond-tongued
b. silver-tongued = very persuasive
Who wrote the novel "Gulliver's Travels"?
a. Jonathan Swift
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Samuel Richardson
a. Jonathan Swift
What does it mean if you look like a drowned rat?
to be completely soaked
Which expression is used to say that you understand and realise that you have been wrong?
a. see the light
b. come to light
c. make light of something
a. see the light
Look at intently with eyes wide open =
stare
Complete the following sentence with the correct expression: "The Chief Executive was asked to leave the company before the end of his contract and was given a ............... ..................... to ease his departure.
a. golden million
b. silver parachute
c. golden handshake
c. golden handshake
How do we call a room where the actors wait before going on stage?
Green room
Complete the following sentence: After forgetting his wife's birthday, Gerald was in the .................-house for weeks.
a. crocodile
b. dog
c. frog
d. horse
e. snailf. wolf
dog-house
Complete the following sentence: "He never communicates with his parents - he even ................... them in the ................. about his own wedding.
kept them in the dark = withhold information from someone
Take a quick look when you shouldn't, e.g. through a keyhole
peep
Complete the following sentence with the correct expression: "She's always had everything provided for her in life by her rich family - she was born with a ................... ........................ in her mouth.
silver spoon