Quiz Questions. Week 5

1. Which American state is the nearest to the former Soviet Union?
2. For which fruit is the US state of Georgia famous for?
3. Which group sang "We are the Champions"?
4. Where was the singer of the group in question three born?
5. What does the term "hosiery" refer to?

Quiz Questions. Week four.

What was the first animated film to be nominated in the "Best Film" category ever?

What was the original meaning of the word "blockbuster"? What was the first blockbuster of the modern era? (English title, please.)

What actor, who turned 85 on may 31st said "opinions are like arseholes, everybody's got one?

What does "agoraphobia" mean?

Who was the longest reigning Prime Minister of Britain in the 20th Century? What was her nickname?

Quiz Questions. Week 3

Quiz Questions week 3.

1. What happens if your brother or sister is a "couch potato"?
2. Who is my sister's or brother's son?
3. The symbol  ( ˜ ) used in many URLs (Web addresses), is called what? (Formal name, please)
4. The following sentence is an example of what? Madam, I am Adam.
5. Why is the village of Brockworth known for?

Quiz questions. Week 2

1. What is celebrated on the 5th of November?
2. Where does Queen Elisabeth II live when she's on holiday? (Place and region, please.)
3. Is Northern Ireland a part of Great Britain?
4. What is the plural of "fox"? And of "ox"?
5. According to the proverb, two wrongs don't make a "what"?

GOOD LUCK!

Find the answer

We have started a competition today to see how many answers we can find out.

The first question is: Find an idiom meaning "not very frequently". In it, there is something that astronomers love.

2nd question: Who lives in 221B Baker St., London?

3rd question:
The sentence "May I have a large container of coffee?" is used as a memory aid for what?

4th question: What artist was the first one to have 20 million followers on Twitter? And 50 million?
5th question: Who was Frankenstein's mother?
6th question: Which is the nearest Star from the Earth?

13.1 mm thin

A couple of days ago one of my students, Alberto, posed an interesting question after warching a video about the new MacBook. Could it be said, "13mm thin", or "13 mm thick"? He argued that we normally say "the big" adjective, in examples such as "13 years old", "2 metres tall" or "3 hours long"

From my point of view, we use the adjective that interests us more, thus, 13 mm THIN, as we want to emphasize thinness. Were it be a mattress, it would be 100 mm THICK.

Here's another explanation:

"old" is an adjective, of course. 
"fifty years" is a noun phrase used as an adverb answering the question "how (old)?". 

How old is he? = adverb adjective verb pronoun. 

The pattern is NUMBER + UNIT + DIMENSION-ADJECTIVE 

Numbers: 3, 6, 10, 20, 75, ... 

Dimension adjective: old Corresponding Units: years, days, months, ... 
Dimension adjective: long Corresponding Units: miles, feet, yards, meters, light-years 
Dimension adjective: wide Corresponding Units: (same as for length) 

From this we get "How long?" "Five meters long." "How old?" "Fifty years old." "How deep?" "A millimeter deep." ... 

Exception: It's not "25 degrees hot", just "25 Degrees.

I hope it's clearer now!