ingkat5685c English Quiz (= joc de preguntes en anglès). Ribs (= costelles). Trenta preguntes / Thirty Questions / Thəəti Kwéshchənz

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24-12-2018


1 How many pairs of ribs do we have?

2 What is a training hall for judo called in Japanese?

3 What does the English expression “private eye” mean?

4 What game of Native American origin, which uses a small solid rubber ball and a stick with a long handle, is played in Canada and the USA? In Canada it is the national summer sport.

5 What is the name of the metro station halfway along Carrer Gran de Gràcia in Barcelona?

6 What is the name of the park created in 1857 in Manhattan in New York?

7 How many legs does a butterfly have?

8 What’s the biggest state in the USA?

9 What is the name in Japanese for the mat used in judo, made of rice straw and woven (Catalan: teixit) with soft rush (Catalan: ajoncs) as a covering?

10 Which country has the biggest land area in the world?

11 What is the most popular indoor sport in the USA?

12 What pair of organs filters blood?

13 What group of fruits do oranges, lemons and limes belong to?

14 The double-letter symbol for lead is Pb, from the Latin word plumbum. What is the double-letter symbol for the element zinc?

15 What village with a population of one thousand people became a municipality in 1784? Its original inhabitants came mainly from Vilassar de Dalt and  Cabrils

16 If you come first in an Olympic event you receive a gold medal; if you come second your medal is silver. What metal is the medal for athletes who gain third place?

17 Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Hawaii are the two highest volcanoes in the world (measured from the ocean floor.) The third highest is in the Canary Isles. What is its name?

18 How many faces does a tetrahedron have?

19 In what book by a Columbian writer is there a family with the surname Buendía living in a town called Macondo?

20 In which organelle of a living cell is the DNA to be found?

21 What’s the biggest country in South America?

22 The plane Neptune has a moon. What is the name of Neptune’s moon?

23 What year is MCMXCVI ?

24 What canal links the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans?

25 What is the name of the stream bed which separates Cabrera de Mar from Vilassar de Mar in Catalonia?

26 What is the Catalan name for a floor in a farnhouse or masia which was used for storage?

27 In what board game do players try to gain as much property as possible and to make the other players bankrupt?

28 In what country is the airline Olympic Airways based?

29 What colour is a ruby?

30 In what stories does Dr. John H. Watson appear?


RESPOSTES / ANSWERS / ÁNSƏZ

 

 

1 How many pairs of ribs do we have?

12 / Twelve

 

2 What is a training hall for judo called in Japanese?

Dojo

 

3 What does the English expression “private eye” mean?

Private detective

 

4 What game of Native American origin, which uses a small solid rubber ball and a stick with a long handle, is played in Canada and the USA? In Canada it is the national summer sport.

Lacrosse

 

5 What is the name of the metro station halfway along Carrer Gran de Gràcia in Barcelona?

Fontana

 

6 What is the name of the park created in 1857 in Manhattan in New York?

Central Park

 

7 How many legs does a butterfly have?

Six

 

8 What’s the biggest state in the USA?

Alaska

 

9 What is the name in Japanese for the mat used in judo, made of rice straw and woven (Catalan: teixit) with soft rush (Catalan: ajoncs) as a covering?

tatami

 

10 Which country has the biggest land area in the world?

Russia

 

11 What is the most popular indoor sport in the USA?

Basketball

 

12 What pair of organs filters blood?

Kidneys

 

13 What group of fruits do oranges, lemons and limes belong to?

Citrus

 

14 The double-letter symbol for lead is Pb, from the Latin word plumbum. What is the double-letter symbol for the element zinc?

Zn

 

15 What village with a population of one thousand people became a municipality in 1784? Its original inhabitants came mainly from Vilassar de Dalt and Cabrils

Vilassar de Mar

 

16 If you come first in an Olympic event you receive a gold medal; if you come second your medal is silver. What metal is the medal for athletes who gain third place?

Bronze

 

17 Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Hawaii are the two highest volcanoes in the world (measured from the ocean floor.) The third highest is in the Canary Isles. What is its name?

Teide

 

18 How many faces does a tetrahedron have?

Four

 

19 In what book by a Columbian writer is there a family with the surname Buendía living in a town called Macondo?

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, 1967), by Gabriel García Márquez

 

20 In which organelle of a living cell is the DNA to be found?

Nucleus

 

21 What’s the biggest country in South America?

Brazil

 

22 The plane Neptune has thirteen known moons. What is the name of Neptune’s nearest and largest moon?

Triton, discovered by William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself.

 

23 What year is MCMXCVI ?

1996 Nineteen sixty-six

 

24 What canal links the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans?

Panama Canal

 

25 What is the name of the stream bed which separates Cabrera de Mar from Vilassar de Mar in Catalonia?

Rambla dels Vinyals

 

26 What is the Catalan name for a floor in a farnhouse or masia which was used for storage?

Golfes

 

27 In what board game do players try to gain as much property as possible and to make the other players bankrupt?

Monopoly

 

28 In what country is the airline Olympic Airways based?

Greece

 

29 What colour is a ruby?

Red

 

30 In what stories does Dr. John H. Watson appear?

Sherlock Holmes stories

 



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