СТРАНОВЕДЧЕСКАЯ ВИКТОРИНА ДЛЯ 8 КЛАССОВ
“HOW
MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE USA?”
“HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
GREAT BRITAIN?”
Make the right choice.
1. The Union Jack is ...
a) the flag of the UK
c) the flag of Wales
b) the flag of Scotland
d) the flag of England
2. The British Prime Minister lives at ...
a) 12 Whitehall
b) 10 Downing Street
c) 7 Russel street
d) 15 Oxford Street
3.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Whitehall is ...
a street leading from trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament
a big hall in the centre of London
a white palace near trafalgar square
the palace where the Queen lives in summer
4. The great Fire of london broke out in ...
a) 1066 b) 1766 c) 1106 d) 1666
5. Sir Christopher Wren built...
a) Buckingham Palace
b) Westminster Abbey
c) St Paul`s Cathedral
d) the Tower of London
6. The National Gallery is in ...
a) Picccadilly Circus
b) Parliament Square
c) Trafalgar Square
d) Leicester Square
7. Westminster is a ...
a) cultural b) political c) business d) industrial
8. Great Britain is separated from the continent by...
a) the Pacific Ocean
c) the Bristol Channel
b) the Irish Sea
d) the English Channel
9. The symbol of England is ...
a)a red rose b) a blue star c) a green leaf
d) a yellow daffodil
10. Where was William Shakespear born?
a) London
b) Dublin c) Stratford-upon-Avon
d) Edinburgh
11.The head of State in Britain is ...
a) the Prime Minister
b) the President
c) the Queen
d) the Speaker
12.The Parliament consists of ... Houses.
a) 6
b) 2 c) 15
d) 4
“HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE USA?”
1. Christopher Columbus discovered America in ...
a) 1402
b) 1482
c) 1492
d) 1392
2. The capital of the USA is...
a) New York
b) Boston
c) Washington
d) Chicago
3. The “Mayflower” is ..
a) the name of a season
b) the name of a flower
c) the name of the first English settlement in America
d) the name of the ship that sailed from Plymouth for the New World
in 1620
4. the first colonists started the tradition of ...
a) Hallowe`en
b) Independent Day
c) Thanksgiving day
d) Memorial Day
5. The first president of the US was...
a) George Washington
b) Abracham Lincoln
c) Jeffrey Jefferson
d) Bill Clinton
6.Who is the president of the USA now?
a) Bill Clinton
b) George Bush
c) Bin Laden
d) George Washington
7. There were ... colonies in America in 1733.
a) 13 b) 7 c) 21 d) 10
8.There are ... states in the USA now.
a) 13 b) 52 c) 47 d) 50
9. The national symbol of the USA is ...
a) the bald eagle
b) a buffulo
c) a maple leaf
d) the Statue of Liberty
10.
The American flag is often called ...
a) Union Jack
b) the Stars and Stripes
c) the Red Dragon d) the White Eagle
11. there are ... stripes on the American flag.
a) 7
b) 6
c) 50 d) 13
12.
The national sport of the USA is ...
a) football
b) soccer
c) baseball
d) basketball
CULTURAL VULTURES
Internationally, these are some of the most famous British and American
cultural “icons”. Can you make US – UK pairs?
Bill Clinton; The Queen; 10 Downing street; Baseball;
Steinback; Michael Jackson; The Beatles; Fish and
Chips; Football; London; The Thames; The Mississippi;
Hamburgers; Shakespear; The White House;
Washington
U.K.
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RUSSIA
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(За правильный ответ из 1 и 2 заданий вы получаете 0,5 балла ( всего
12); за правильный ответ из 3 задания – 1 балл (всего 8)).