Books/Culture
What is the name of the main character in the book series Hunger Games?
Katniss Everdeen
What was the name of Leonardo Dicaprio's character in the 1997 drama Titanic?
Jack Dawson
Which famous physicist discovered the concept of gravity?
Isaac Newton
What is the past participle of the verb get?
Got or gotten
When did World War II begin whrn when did it end? (What years?)
It began in 1939 and ended in 1945
The author Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers wrote what kind of books?
Fairy tales
In the Oscar-Winner movie Barbie, Ken, after learning about the patriarchy, becomes obsessed with a certain name. What is that animal?
Horses
What are the three official languages spoken in Swizerland?
French, German and Italian
What preposition do I use when talking about periods of the day (morning, afternoon, evening)?
In
What is the largest desert in the world?
Antarctica
The Roman God Jupiter was known by what name in the Greek mythology?
Zeus
In the TV show Friends, what is the name of Phoebe Buffay's identical twin sister?
Ursula
What is the rarest blood type in humans?
AB negative
If I make a sentence using the verb have as auxiliary plus the past participle of the main verb, which verbal tense am I using?
The present perfect tense
What do the characters Bender (from Futurama), C-3PO (from Star Wars), and Rosie (from The Jetsons) have in common
They are all robots.
In the Game of Thrones saga, where is the character Brienne from?
Tarth
What is the name of the home planet of Princess Leia that gets destroyed by the Death Star in A New Hope?
Alderaan
The murder of which political figure led to the start of the first World War in 1914?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What is the difference in meaning between the sentences below:
My aunt never travelled to Paris.
My aunt has never travelled to Paris.
In the first sentence, with the use of the simple past, it's implied the aunt never went and never will go to Paris. In the second sentence, with the use of the present perfect tense, it's expressed up until the present moment she hasn't been to Paris, but that can change in the future.
Name one of the astronauts who first stepped on the moon in the Apolo 11 mission in 1969.
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins
In the fourth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, two house-elves appear with frequency. What are the names of those two house elves?
Dobby and Winky
Steve Carrell plays the main character in the TV series The Office. What is the name of his character?
Michael Scott
What human organ cleans fifty gallons of blood every day?
The kidneys
What is wrong with the following sentence:
I usually don't eat lasagne because there are too much calories in it!
Calorie is a countable noun, and much is used wigh uncountable nouns, so the correct answer would be : there are too many calories in it.
What is the difference between to settle for someone and to settle down?
To settle means to be with someone (romantically) that you don't truly wish to be with, but out of fear or lack of other options you stay with that person anyway. To settle down means to live a quiet and more fixed life, making more permanent choices, such as getting married and getting a steady job.