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Question 1
What flag is made up by the
crosses of
St George’s, St Patrick’s, and St Andrew’s?
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Question 2
In Ukrainian we call these clothes by
the name of a very popular traditional
British game.
What game is it and what
clothes are these?
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Question 3
Today in New York THEY are practically
absent,
although formerly THEIR number
was nearly 35 000.
In London on
the contrary THEY are
numerous and considered to be one of the
symbols of the city.
Name THEM.
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Question 4
This food was brought by a famous
English traveller Sir Walter Railegh from
his trip to
America. He borrowed it from
American Indians and since that time it
has always been very popular in Europe.
What food is that?
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Question 5
The Londoners say: «They definitely will remain
red, but if they were green, they would cost
more, but harm the environment less».
What are they?
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Question 6
According to an old English saying,
all
that finishes in a good way is good.
Can
you remember that saying?
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Question 7
Thousands of tourists come to a famous
place in Britain to see something that has never
been seen and to visit the museum devoted to something never seen by anybody.
What is the place and what is that mysterious something?
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Loch Ness
and Loch Ness Monster.
Answer
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Question 8
There is an English riddle: «A person
who makes IT doesn’t need IT. A person
who
buys IT doesn’t use IT. A person who
uses IT doesn’t know about IT».
What is IT?
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Question 9
This famous Briton died on 23rd April
1616,
and was said to be born on the
same
day 52 years earlier.
Who was that man?
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Question 10
IT was born far away from society.
IT used to suffer from nasty weather
and frost.
ITS surroundings may be called
real beasts. The old man, who killed IT,
gave IT possibility to bring joy to our
houses. Name IT.
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Question 11
Steve Jobs, Ben Affleck, Woody Allen, Hans
Christian Andersen, James Cameron, Mark Zuckerberg — all these
people gained popularity and success. Besides they all experienced a similar disappointing situation at college that had not influenced their future success.
What situation was that?
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They
were
college
dropouts.
Answer
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Question 12
They say that many years ago in
Cheshire
County, England, there was
an executioner who used to
do his job
with the same face expression.
What animal from a very famous fairy tale
by Lewis Carroll was on his coat of arms?
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Question 13
In case of an accident, the absence
of what is better than the presence of mind?
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Question 14
Which of Paul McCartney's compositions
had the
working title «Scrambled Eggs»?
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Question 15
What country has more English speakers than
the United States?
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Question 16
One of the reasons why this English
town
had not been bombed during the
Second World War
is that Hitler was
intending to use it as his capital in case if
he conquered England.
What town is that?
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Question 17
The shortest war in history was between
Zanzibar
and a European country in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38
minutes.
What European country won in this war?
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Question 18
This cathedral was built by Christopher Wren
between 1675 and 1711. It is one
of Europe's
largest cathedrals and its dome is only exceeded in size by that of the St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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Questions 19
This language developed from a Germanic dialect;
it is the main language used throughout the world
on the Internet; besides it is the richest in vocabulary.
Name that language.