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{4 Which flag do pirates fly: the Jolly Roger or
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(5 Ona trek through the rainforest, which of
these animols would YOU never come dcross?
a) poison-dart frog
b) naked mole rat si D c) blood-sucking leech
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về If you saw a snake charmer in India, x
would he be using a real snake? l -£8) Whot type of boot
is this man paddling through the canals
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13 Who built the Acropolis? Ze (2° ‘Ships of the desert’ are
C3) One fifth of all the people in the world are Chinese
a) Romans b) Saxons c) Ancient Greeks
a) camels b) jeeps c) hovercraft LB’
True or false?
‘4 In 1912, why did the first woman to fly across the
(5 Who flew from England to America in _
English Channel get so little attention from the media? a) it was frowned upon for women to fly
b) the Titanic had sunk the day before SP!
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} Where are
+ How long have parts
} What was the first, and only, passenger
: Where were the Apollo the Alps? a) Europe b) Australia c) South America
of the Atacama desert in Chile gone without rain?
a) 4years b)40years_ c) 400 years
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(1) What is Peru's capital city?
a) Tunis b) Kingston c) Lima
2} Who has a blue box that can
— travel through time and space? a) Doctor Who b) Captain Kirk c) Darth Vader o> £3} Where is St Basil’s `” cathedral? a) Finland b) Russia c) Scotland ‘4 How many people are there in the world? a) 7 billion b) 10 billion c) 13 billion
‘53 Which is NOT a real place?
Trang 8(6) Which brothers made the first hot-air balloon, over 100 years before planes were invented? ~ a) Montgolfier b) Grimm c) Jackson € - » Pb cư What's the "biggest desert in the world? a) Sahara b) Antarctic c) Arabian 8} What is Pisa famous for? a) a leaning tower b) an upside-down statue c) a bottomless well (9 Which creature is on
the Welsh national flag?
a) unicorn b) griffin c) dragon
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a) Sweden b) Jordan’ _c) Malaysia
{2} Which country has a wheel
in the middle of its flag? a) India b) Cuba c) Japan cn ` CAEN 35 ẤV Ngưu Tà ‘3 How are the Royal Canadian mounted police better known? {4 Where's Mount Everest? a) India b) Burma c) Nepal
‘5: Where’s Lake Baikal,
the world’s deepest lake?
a) Norway b) Russia
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; Where is Mount Olympus? } Which language is spoken } Which is the you see religious dancers known as ‘whirling dervishes’? \
a) Greece b) Italy c¢) Bulgaria
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the Shaolin Monastery, ~
where some of the world’s best martial artists are trained? a) Thailand b) China c) Japan `, `
{2 Put these countries in
` order from north to south a) Mongolia b) Norway £3} Roughly what
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F @) Can a passenger plane survive
being struck by lightning?
‘63 On safari, when are you most likely to see 2
ee animals drinking at a waterhole: : sos = S
the middle of the day or dawn and dusk? A 7 Which civilization built pyramids in
the rainforests of Central America? a
a) Celts b) Apache c) Mayans 8} Where are the Ï Himalayas? a) Asia b) Africa c) Oceania
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(3° Which is the largest
(4) What is New Zealand’s
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a) black cape? = b) blue cape? c) red cape? (6: Which word goes before ‘snowman’ to make the
nickname of the mythical half-man half-ape creature that lives in the Himalayas?
a) Abominable b) Despicoble c) Abysmal
{73 Which is the largest country in Africa?
a) South Africa 6b) Madagascar c) Algeria
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this ancient fortification:
{2 Whose tomb was found in
Trang 165} Was the city of Troy in modern-day Greece or Turkey?
(63 What's the traditional
Trang 17<1? Which is older: the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty? (2) The world’s largest ocean is a) Atlantic b) Pacific c) Indian
<3) Who was shipwrecked on a Caribbean island?
a) Robinson Crusoe bb) Don Quixote c) Gulliver
43 Sand on white beaches is NOT made from ground up
Trang 18‘53 Only one of the Poles has land beneath it;
the other is solid ice Which is which?
(6) | was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built
They called me ‘unsinkable’
-but | was sunk by an iceberg on my first voyage What am |? ‘73 Which Italian city is the birthplace _ of pizza? ` a) Milan " b) Naples c) Pisa 8} Which snake might you see in the desert? a) sidewinding adder b) boa constrictor c) green mamba
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covered by sea or land? is famous for its fish and chips,
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a) Atlantic b) Arctic c) Pacific
‘6} Pilots measure the speed of their plane in
a) light years b) knots c) air miles | Sa = ‘7.3 Where are the é Rocky mountains? a) Europe “ b) Oceania c) North America
‘8: If you traced around a map of Italy’s coastline, what would your picture look like?
Trang 21Which capital city is furthest south? (10) a) Berlin) 6) Helsinki ¢) Mogadishu
ph) Which type of bear does NOT live in Canada?
a) grizzly bear b) panda c) polar bear
(3) What are the summer storms that provide 80% of India’s yearly rainfall?
ie) ‘monsoon b) typhoon ¢) cyclone
(4 What traditional Russian “ y J] a
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fT What's the longest river in the world?
a) Amazon b) Nile c) Yangtze
(2% Which city do the most jumbo jets land in each year?
a) New York b) Beijing c) London 33 | turn red at dawn and dusk, and weigh 4 million tons
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3 Modern possenger jets
) Where’s Death
} What's the capital
Which big cat might you see in the Amazon rainforest? a) tiger b) lion c) jaguar
} This church was begun by Antoni Gaudf in 1882, _
and is still being built Where is it?
a) Manchester b) Barcelona
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a Match the word for ‘roller coaster’ with 0m (2)
the name of the language it’s written in a) S7 1) Arabic >> b) z + 7 IS i= 2) Chinese c) lc9esltsö 3) Japanese ei (2) Is Hollywood on the _ East or West coast ` of America? y £33 Which zone in the Atlantic
Ocean have ships sailed into
and never been seen again? a) The Jamaica Circle b) The Bermuda Triangle c) The Haiti Square
‘4 Did Native Americans
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~ Samarkand Which trade route made it one of the richest cities in the world? a) Silk Road \ b) Cotton Road c) Nylon Road (6) When comparing the size of one country to another,
which is more accurate:
a globe or a flat map?
và Which country’s national animal is the bald eagle?
a) Egypt b) Italy c) United States
8: What do people traditionally eat with in China?
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1} Who was the first person to
: fly solo across the Atlantic? a) Charles Lindbergh
b) Neil Armstrong
c) James Cook
{23 What's the nickname for Japan’s high speed trains?
a) bullet trains b) rocket trains c) lightning trains
{3 Which side of a ship is ‘starboard’, left or right?
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a) ring of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean b) river of lava that corkscrews down Mount Etna c) roller coaster at Disneyland Florida
£63 Whose dead body has been on display
{7 Which two countries
£83 Which city is
in Moscow’s Red Square since 1924?
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(33 How long is the Equator?
{43 In India you can a
(1) Where can you see kangaroos in the wild? (4)
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6) Where does poella come from? À a) Spain b) Mexico c) France
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? Complete the name of the
} Who's said to live in a snowy place
? Moroccan stews are
“1 Which animal could you NOT see ()
in the wild in Africa?
a) crocodile b) giraffe c)tiger 1) lion > Where can you spend yuan?
a) Nigeria bb) Indonesia c) China largest river in North America i I i I called Lapland, in the Arctic Circle? a) Santa Claus b) the Grinch
c) the Abominable Snowman
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£6: Who was the first woman to 4
: fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? a) Amelia Earhart
b) Eleanor Roosevelt c) Katharine Hepburn
(7: Where is it rude to show someone
the sole of your shoe?
a) North America 6) Middle East c) Oceania
(8) Canada has two official languages One is English What's the other?
a) Spanish b) Swedish c) French
<9 What ships did Vikings sail in?
a) frigates b) longboats c) kayaks
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{13 Would you ever see a Tasmanian devil
in Tasmania?
C2) Where does the pilot of a jumbo jet sit?
a) cabin b) hold c) cockpit
SS How do you say ‘goodbye’ in Japanese? a) konnichiwa b) sayonara c) saru
4) Which tribes travel and trade
across the Sahara desert?
a) Sioux `
b) Bedouin
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7} Which mountain was the
home of the Greek gods:
Mount Olympus or Mount Sinai?
(8) What pulls Santa’s sleigh?
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ẤT) If you see an oasis in the desert that disappears as you walk toward it, what have you actually seen? (2) Who builtthe „ Colosseum? a) Egyptians b) Mongols c) Romans
(33 What is Germany’s capital city?
a) Hamburg 6b) Munich c) Berlin
(4) What's most likely to be on
the menu in Argentina? a) steak
b) caviar
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a magazine without sinking?
a) Sea of Galilee b) Red Sea c) Dead Sea
‘63 Where can you rent a boat in Cairo and sail up the Nile?
a) Egypt b) Libya c) Cameroon
> How long does it take to fly direct from London
to Sydney?
a) 10 hours b) 16 hours c) 22 hours
3 Trains in India heave with passengers, and
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as tall as a 275-floor building?
a) Hawaii b) Iceland c) Greece 2: Name five of the seven continents os -2 ak
{3} Where’s the Taj Mahal? “
a) India b) China c) Iran st =
‘4: How many stars
are there on the American flag? a) 5
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cross if you set out from New Zealand and sailed to Peru? a) Pacific Ocean b) Atlantic Ocean
c) Indian Ocean
€7 Where ore the Andes mountoins?'
BI Co) b) Europe c) South*America
8} What is Spain’s capital city?
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1} Does the leading
rider in the Tour de France cycle race wear a
a) red jersey? b) yellow jersey? c) blue jersey?
2° Which country has a white flag with
(33 On average, which pole is colder: a red circle in the middle?
a) Canada b) Japan c) Turkey
the North Pole or the South Pole?
‘4; When it’s Ipm in St Petersburg in western Russia,
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a) Zulu b) Maori c) Apache (6) What language do people speak in Brazil?
a) French b) Spanish c) Portuguese ‘7 Where’s the Great ~~ Sandy Desert? a) United States b) Argentina c) Australia
(8) Where are these
floating markets held?
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national anthem?
a) O Canada, your land is wild and free b) O Canada, we stand on guard for thee
c) O Canada, we love your maple trees
(23 Which people from
Ukraine and southern Russia perform this dance? a) Magyars Ni b) Tartars lín c) Cossacks
is } What's the main obstacle to taking photos in Antarctica in mid-winter?
a) it’s too cold b) there’s no light
c) it angers penguins
£4) Is Japan closer to the
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£6: Which ship was found abandoned and drifting in the
ocean, with no sign of damage and no sign of her crew? a) Mary Celeste
b) Victory ~ a Ve c) Santa Maria
(7) Put these vehicles in the order they were invented
8} These ancient statues are on which
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“13 In Spain, a worried-looking man cries:
“mi toro se ha escapado!” What's he saying?
“My watch has been stolen!” or “My bull has escaped!”
2} Which of these countries is NOT in Africa?
a) Zimbabwe b) Guatemala c) Somalia
‘33 What is Santa Claus’ name in Russia: he
Papa Midnight or Grandfather Frost? ‘4 Norway’s coast has thousands of narrow,
steep-sided inlets What are they called?