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Марафон знаний по английскому языку

10-11 GRADES

QUIZ

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

1. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

a) 160

b) 127

c) 154

d)150

2. What profession was John Shakespeare?

a) Merchant

b)Alderman

c) Baker

d)Wealthy broker

3. What does the motto “Totus mundus agit histrionem” written on the “Globe” means?

a) A whole word of players

b)God Bless the Queen

c) All for one - one for all

d)In God we trust

HOLIDAYS

As you know the symbol of Easter is a dyed egg. There are very interesting expressions with the word egg in the English language. Match the expression with its meaning:

4. to lay an egg (AmE) –

5. as sure as eggs is eggs (BrE old-fashioned) –

6. to egg on –

7. goodegg (old-fashioned) –

8. egghead –

9. Columbus’s egg –

10. nest egg –

a) someone you can depend on to be honest and kind;

b) very intelligent, who only interests in theories and books; (AmE) – a man who has no hair:

c) to tell someone that you are sure that something will happen;

d) to be unsuccessful at something, to fail;

e) to encourage someone to do something they should not do;

f) an unexpectedly simple solution of a seemingly insoluble problem;

g) the money you have saved to use for something special in the future

Odd One Out

In the following, find the word that doesn’t fit.

For example:

Cheese, ice, wax, chocolate, snow, shovel

“Shovel” would be the correct answer. All the others can be melted.

11. Apricot, clothes, cheese, figs, hair, dishes

НЕ нашли? Не то? Что вы ищете?

12. Coconuts, oysters, clams, eggs, walnuts, haddock

13. CD’s, light bulb, battery, garbage, tissue, diapers

14. Brush, banana, skin, orange, paint

Daily Life in English-speaking Countries

15. I. D. – it is the abbreviation of… what? Can you give full version?

16. A Honey Do List is not a recipe for making honey. What is it then?

17. Not all the hours in our life are happy. What is a Happy Hour?

18. Do you know what a High-Rise means?

Who said it?

19. Who said it? ‘Eureka, Eureka, I have found it!’

a) Euclid

b) Archimedes

c) Zeus

d) Marie-Antoinette

e) Louis XVI

f) Socrates

20. Who wrote it? “If music be the food of love, play on…”

a) Alexander Pope

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) John Keats

d) John Milton

e) William Shakespeare

21. Who said it? “Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.”

a) Thomas Edison

b) Benjamin Franklin

c) Albert Einstein

d) Stephan Hawking

22. Who said it? “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and this is not being talked about.”

a) Dorothy Parker

b) William Faulkner

c) Jerry Springer

d) Oscar Wilde

23. “He who can does, he who cannot, teaches” is a quotation of

a) Charles Dickens

b) George Bernard Shaw

c) Margaret Thatcher

d) Oscar Wilde

English Quotes and Phrases

24. If you “bury the hatchet”, you

a) ignore an insult

b) spend too much money

c) hide the evidence of a crime

d) make peace

25. Those who “separate the wheat from the chaff”

a) use advanced methods in farming

b) separate people by race or religion

c) pick the winners in horse races

d) decide what is important or valuable

26. The incident or thing that finally causes to lose control is

a) “the lunatic fringe”

b) “the last straw”

c) “the most unkindest cut of all”

d) “Pandora’s box”

27. What is “the American Dream”?

a) returning to the land of one’s ancestors

b) spreading democracy throughout the world

c) being the first country to put a station in space

d) the possibility of bettering oneself through individual enterprise

28. What is the difference between the abbreviations “e. g.” and “i. e”?

a) After using e. g. you quote; after using i. e. you paraphrase.

b) E. g. refers to years before Christ’s birth; i. e. refers to years after Christ’s birth.

c) E. g. is used in footnotes; i. e. is used in bibliographies;

d) After using e. g. you list examples; after using i. e. you explain or expand

29. Who advised Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”?

a) Franklin D. Roosevelt

b) John F. Kennedy

c) Martin Luther King, Jr.

d) Ronald Reagan

30. When someone works or plays too hard, you say he or she

a) makes hay while the sun shines

b) takes the bitter with the sweet

c) burns the candle at both ends

d) can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear