9-11 grades

QUIZ

Money

Replace each word or phrase in italics with a word or phrase from the box that has opposite meaning

in cash purchase take out profit worthless well off poverty
  1. Janet says that she is very hard up at the moment. ….
  2. Last year their business made a huge loss. ….
  3. I’d like to pay in &100 please. …
  4. Most people in the city live in great prosperity. ….
  5. The manager insisted that I paid by cheque. …
  6. Jean was able to make only one sale this morning. …
  7. The old painting I found in the loft turned out to be valuable. …

Names

  1. Mozart’s Christian names were ……. .
  2. Queen Elizabeth’s youngest son called …… .
  3. The IdlewildAirport in New York was renamed …… after this man’s death.
  4. ……….’s real name is Richard Starkley.
  5. A Swedish actress by the name of Greta Gustaffson adopted the screen pseudonym of ….. .
  6. The newest airport in Paris is named after …… .
  7. Samuel Clemens’ pen-name was …… .
  8. The stretch of coastland between Toulon in France and Spezia in Italy is known as ……… .
  9. The tallest building in Paris takes its name from the engineer, … ... .
  10. During the seventies a certain Cassius Clay changed his name to …… .

English Phrase Origins Quiz

  1. “Give up the ghost” comes from

a)Charles the First’s speech before his execution

b)Dickens’ Christmas Carol

c)The Bible

  1. The phrase ‘Salad Days’ was coined by

a)William Shakespeare

b)Noel Coward

c)Gertrude Jekyll

  1. “The first water” referred to

a)Highest quality diamonds

b)The first bottle of brandy taken from a barrell

c)The practice of offering water first to the King in the English court

  1. “The green-eyed monster’, referring to jealously comes from

a)The Incredible Hulk

b)Shakespeare’s Othello

c)Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd

d)One of the seven deadly sins

  1. “A cock and bull story’ originated

a)In France, with the term cock a l’ane, meaning fanciful story

b)At the Cock and Bull coaching inns in Buckinghamshire

c)From cock fighting terminology

Science and Technology

  1. How many chromosomes are there in a human cell?

a) 4 b) 46 c) 406

  1. What travels at 2, 997, 924, 580 metres per second?

a)sound

b)light

c)Concorde

  1. Who made a great discovery while having a bath?

a)Archimedes

b)Hippocrates

c)Democritus

  1. Where was the first nuclear-powered ice-breaker built?

a)in Germany

b)in the USA

c)in Russia

  1. Who discovered penicillin?

a)Alexander Fleming

b)Lois Pasteur

c)Dmitri Mendeleyev

Quick Quiz

  1. If your friend says: “I’m in hot water”, it means that he or she is

a)in love

b)in trouble

c)excited

d)bored

  1. Complete the following joke.

Why are ghosts bad at telling lies? Because you can always … through them.

a)walk

b)pass

c)look

d)see

  1. Which is the correct question tag?

Let’s go to the disco, … ?

a)aren’t we?

b)shall we?

c)don’t we?

d)let us?