III. The game
Сектор “What?”
What novel made Charles Dickens famous? - The Pickwick Papers
What city is the birthplace of Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson?-Edinburgh
What is the title of the book written by Charlotte Bronte in 1847? - Jane Eyre
What are Pushkin’s most famous books? - Fairytales, The Captain’s Daughter, Eugene Onegin
What film based on the book by Tolkien has been favourite with children for years? - The Lord of the Rings
What is the most popular musical instrument of Scotland? - a bagpipe
What book made Lewis Carrol famous? - Alice in Wonderland
What is similar in the national emblems of Russia and the USA?
What Russian poet wrote about our Motherland?
“Умом Россию не понять, Аршином общим не измерить;
У ней особенная стать – В Россию можно только верить” - Tyutchev
What is the famous airport in London? - Heathrow
What building is the architectural masterpiece of Christopher Wren? - St Paul’s Cathedral
What is the difference between English and Russian tea? - English - with milk, Russian - with lemon
What happened in the summer of 1666 in London? - The Great Fire
What was a palace, a prison and now is a museum? - the Tower of London
What does the word “Albion” (poetic name of GB) mean? - white
What Scottish biologist discovered penicillin? - Alexander Fleming
What Russian scientist developed the hydrogen bomb? - Andrei Sakharov
What museum did Madame Tussaud create? - The museum of wax figures
What German composer composed the Wedding March? - Mendelssohn
What German musician and composer is well-known for his organ music? - Bakh
What German composer continued writing music after he became completely deaf? - Beethoven
Сектор “Where?”
Where do children in Britain have Christmas presents? - in stockings
Where were fireworks invented? - in China
Where is the home of the king? - in Buckingham Palace
Where does the coronation take place? It is a royal church. - in Westminster Abbey
Where is Big-Ben? - on the Houses of Parliament in London
Where is Hollywood situated? - in California
Where was William Shakespeare born? - in Stratford-on –Avon
Where was the Statue of Liberty made? - in France
Where is the United Nations Organization (ООН)? - in New York
Where were the “BEATLES” born? - in Liverpool
Where is the monument to Horatio Nelson? - in the centre of Trafalgar Square
Where does the Loch-Ness monster live? - in Scotland
Where in the world is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa exhibited? - The Louvre, Paris, France
Where does Aladdin live? – (Agrabah or Baghdad)
Where did immigrants to the USA arrive between 1890 and 1950? – Ellis Island, New York.
Where did Jazz begin? – The USA
Where’s the smallest human bone? - in the ear.
Where was Christopher Columbus born? – Genoa, Italy.
Where would you find the world’s most ancient forest? – Australia.
Where was the lord of the rings filmed? – New Zealand.
Сектор “Who?”
Who is the author of the following books: The Turkish Gambit, The State Counselor, Azazel? -Boris Akunin
Who is the world’s most famous detective story writer? - Agatha Christie
Who created the music for the ballets “The Swan Lake”, “The Sleeping Beauty”, and “The Nutcracker”? - Peter Tchaikovsky
Who is called “the father of the space technology”? - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Who flew into space on the 12th of April in 1961 on the board of the “Vostok” spaceship? - Yuri Gagarin
Who wrote “The book of Jungle”? - Kipling
Who was the first Walt Disney cartoon character? - Mickey Mouse
Who lived in Sherwood Forest? - Robin Hood
Who was called “An Iron Lady”? - Margaret Thatcher
Who is called the First Foot? - the first visitor to enter the house on New Year’s morning
Who is the world’s highest-paid footballer in England? - David Beckham
Who is one of the founders of the “Beatles” and a musician? - John Lennon
Who created Harry Porter? - Joanne Rowling
Who invented the first working TV system? - John Logie Baird
Who wrote a famous book about detective Sherlock Holmes? - Arthur Conan Doyle
Who wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets? - William Shakespeare
Who is the author of a famous book “Robinson Crusoe”? - Daniel Defoe
Who is the inventor of the telephone? - Alexander Graham Bell
Who was the founder of the first Russian University? - M. Lomonosov
Who played Neo in The Matrix? Keanu Reeves.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)? Marie Curie.
Сектор “When?”
When do English people say “Trick or Treat? - on Halloween (31-st of October)
When did Columbus discover America? - in 1492
When do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day?- on the 4-th Thursday of November
When is Independence Day in the USA? - July 4th
When did the Cold War end? In 1989.
When was the end of the First World War? – in 1918.
When was Madonna born? (In which decade)? – the 1950s (1958)
When does Orwell’s most famous novel with the same name take place? – in1984.
When did the Titanic movie come out? In 1997.
When was the very first model of the iPhone released? In 2007.
When is the “Star Wars Day”? - May, 4th.
When was the great fire of London? – in 1666.
When was Moscow founded? – in 1147.
When did the first human travel into space? – in 1961.
Сектор “The Black Box”
What is there in the black box?
It is known that potatoes play an important role in the life of Russia, in France - grapes, in the countries of Southern Europe - olives. And what fruit, according to the legends, three times influenced the fate of mankind?
(The apple from the tree of knowledge, the apple of discord, and the apple that helped Newton to discover the law of universal gravitation.)
At the New York Zoo, there is a stone pavilion with armored glass, which has the inscription: “Here is the most dangerous creature on the Earth. Guess the content of the pavilion.
(A mirror is installed there. Did you really think that in “the most legal state in the world” they could put a person in a cage?)
The monkeys of one European zoo constantly stole from visitors this thing. Then the administration hung a warning notice on the cage. But something went wrong, and the monkeys continued to steal. What was the mistake of the administration? What's in the black box?
The mistake was that the ad was too small. When short-sighted visitors leaned over to read the sign "Beware of monkeys stealing glasses," they lost their glasses. Inside the black box are glasses.
The black box contains an item that was used in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It looks appetizing from the outside, although it is considered to be completely inedible. At the same time, many people eat it several times a day and immediately put on the next portion. What are we talking about?
Riddles
1. In the early 1800’s people would send «vinegar valentines» to…….
To the people they didn’t like / hated
2. Russian rock group Aquarium has a song « 4 D »
To whom did Boris Grebenshikov devote this song?
For Lady Diana
3. It’s difficult to see a homeless dog or cat in London, but there are 10000 of these animals walking along the streets and looking for food in rubbish bins.
What animal is this? Red fox
4. There are seven currently, and their names are Jubilee, Harris, Gripp, Rocky, Erin, Poppy and Merlina. They have become the symbol of London.
Who are they? Ravens in the Tower
5. A famous American scientist and an inventor of many things: the electric light, phonograph, automatic telegraph and the projector.
What is his name? - Thomas Alva Edison
6. The first woman in European history to be elected prime minister (The British Prime Minister for more than 11 years - 1979-1990)
What is her name? Margaret Thacher
7. Match the writer and the book
| 1 .Сharles Dickens; 2. R.L.Stevenson; 3. W.Shakespeare; 4. Jonathan Swift; 5. George B.Shaw; 6. Emily Bronte; 7. Lewis Carroll; 8. Charlotte Bronte; 9. J.R.R.Tolkien; 10. Arthur Conan Doyle.
| a) Gulliver’s Travels; b) Alice in Wonderland; c) Jane Eyre; d) Oliver Twist; e) The Hobbit; f) Treasure Island; g) Wuthering Heights; h) Romeo and Juliet; i) The Problem of Thor Bridge; j) Pigmalion.
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1d, 2f , 3h, 4a, 5j, 6g, 7b, 8c, 9e, 10 i
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