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100

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the …

4th Thursday in November

100

What is a kilt?


100

What literary character the museum on Baker Street in London is devoted to?

Sherlock Holmes

100

Who invented the first practical telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

100

Mr and Mrs Haines have three daughters and each daughter has two brothers. How many children do Mr and Mrs Haines have?

5-three daughters and two sons.

200

What is the capital of Australia?

Canberra

200

Tell the name of the Frenchwoman who lived two centuries ago in England. She is famous for her waxworks and opened gallery from them.

Madame Tussauds

200

The author of books about Harry Potter

Joanne Rowling

200

What medicine was discovered by the English scientist Alexander Fleming?

Penicillin

200

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

One, only I was going to St. Ives.

300

The capital of Wales is ...

   Cardiff

300

What well-known cathedral in London was constructed by sir Christopher Wren?

St Paul's Cathedral

300

What English writer was born in the city of Stratford - on Avon?

William Shakespeare

300

What English scientist opened the law of physics?

Sir Isaac Newton

300

What has a neck, but no head?


400

Where does the President of the USA live and work? 

 In the White House

400

What of the museums of London has the biggest collection of books?

The British Museum

400

Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

Lewis Carroll

400

What English scientist wrote the evolutionary theory of origin of a man?

Charles Darwin

400

What occurs twice in a lifetime, but once in every year. Twice in a week but never in a day?

The letter E

500

What do  Americans celebrate on the 4-th of July?

Independence Day

500

 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

500

What is a national musical instrument of Scotland?

bagpipe

500

English theoretical physicist and cosmologist

Stephen William Hawking

500

Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of this clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?

He doesn't have any stairs because he lives in a bungalow!