ingkat5630e Quiz Material for English Learners in the Catalan Countries / Materials per als aprenents d’anglès als Països Catalans

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QUIZ 1

1 What gas is colourless and toxic and flammable and smells very unpleasant, and is associated with rotten eggs and flatulence?

2 Beetles called fireflies use light at night which is produced chemically in their lower abdomen. Why? (Two reasons)

3 What are the short forms of the names William and Robert that begin with the letter B?

4 In the play by Shakespeare “Macbeth” (1603), Captain Macbeth and Captain Banquo meet three strange women in a wood who prophecy that Macbeth will be king.

What were these women?

(wikipedia)

5 What kind of music was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s, and was made famous by Bob Marley?

6 What Englishman went to Hollywood and invented a figure called the Tramp (el rodamón)) with a small moustache, baggy trousers, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat, in 1914?

7 What place is London was mentioned in a charter in 825 and means “Wemba’s meadow” or “Wemba’s clearing” (el prat o la clariana de Wemba)?

8 What domestic animal has the scientific name Capra aegagrus hircus?

9 What is the name of the castle in Maresme built in the 1000s and called Castell de Sant Vicenç? The name was changed in the 1300s after ownership passed from the Santvicenç family to the Bosc family

10 What is the name of the series of comedy films with a French police detective called’Inspector Jaques Clouseau’?

(wikipedia)

11 Which African animal has a scientific name which in part means “camel-leopard”, because its skin has patches of colour like a leopard’s spots, and it has a face like a camel’s?

12 What French priest born in 1651 and who died in 1719 was the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools (Institut des frères des écoles chrétiennes)?

13 What do cows and goats have which is divided into four parts, called the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum?

14 What is the card game which is often shown in western films?

15 The name of the native language of Ireland is Gaeilge [GEIL-gə]. What is the official name of this language in English?

16 On the Pedraforca Mountain in Catalonia it is said that witches often met. In what county is it?

17 What two metro stations are under Avinguda de Vallcarca?

18 What famous French engineer owned a house in Plaça Lesseps and in 1842 protested against the intention of the Castilian general Joaquín Baldomero Fernández-Espartero y Álvarez de Toro to bomb Barcelona?

(wikipedia)

19 What fruit was first cultivated in what is today Georgia, by the Black Sea before 6000BC?

(wikipedia)

20 What drink from Scotland and Ireland is from a Gaelic expression meaning “water of life”?

21 In what film does the character Marty McFly get sent from 1985 to 1955 by accident?

ANSWERS

1 What gas is colourless and toxic and flammable and smells very unpleasant, and is associated with rotten eggs and flatulence?

H2S, hydrogen sulphide

2 Beetles called fireflies use light at night which is produced chemically in their lower abdomen. Why? (Two reasons)

To both attract mates and to attract prey

3 What are the short forms of the names William and Robert that begin with the letter B?

Bill, Bob (also Billy, Billie; Bobby, Bobbie)

4 In the play by Shakespeare “Macbeth” (1603), Captain Macbeth and Captain Banquo meet three strange women in a wood who prophecy that Macbeth will be king.

What were these women?

witches

(wikipedia)

5 What kind of music was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s, and was made famous by Bob Marley?

reggae

6 What Englishman went to Hollywood and invented a figure called the Tramp (el rodamón)) with a small moustache, baggy trousers, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat, in 1914?

Charlie Chaplin

7 What place in London was mentioned in a charter in 825 and means “Wemba’s meadow” or “Wemba’s clearing” (el prat o la clariana de Wemba)?

Wembley

8 What domestic animal has the scientific name Capra aegagrus hircus?

the goat

9 What is the name of the castel in Maresme built in the 1000s and called Castell de Sant Vicenç? The name was changed in the 1300s after ownership passed from the Santvicenç family to the Bosc family

Burriac

10 What is the name of the series of comedy films with a French police detective called ‘Inspector Jaques Clouseau’? The Pink Panther

(wikipedia)

11 Which African animal has a scientific name which in part means “camel-leopard”, because its skin has patches of colour like a leopard’s spots, and it has a face like a camel’s?

the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

12 What French priest born in 1651 and who died in 1719 was the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools (Institut des frères des écoles chrétiennes)?

Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

13 What do cows and goats have which is divided into four parts, called the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum?

stomach

14 What is the card game which is often shown in western films?

poker

15 The name of the native language of Ireland is Gaeilge [GEIL-gə]. What is the official name of this language in English?

Irish

16 On the Pedraforca Mountain in Catalonia it is said that witches often met. In what county is it?

Berguedà

17 What two metro stations are under Avinguda de Vallcarca?

Vallcarca

18 What famous French engineer owned a house in Plaça Lesseps and in 1842 protested against the intention of the Castilian general Joaquín Baldomero Fernández-Espartero y Álvarez de Toro to bomb Barcelona? Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894)

(wikipedia)

19 What fruit was first cultivated in what is today Georgia, by the Black Sea before 6000BC? Grape (Vitis vinifera)

(wikipedia)

20 What drink from Scotland and Ireland is from a Gaelic expression meaning “water of life”?

uisge beatha / whisky (Scotland), uisce beatha / whiskey (Ireland)

21 In what film does the character Marty McFly get sent from 1985 to 1955 by accident?

Back to the Future

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