The Game
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Итоговое занятие по
английскому языку
Игра «Кто хочет стать
миллионером»
9 класс
You have 15 questions or levels; if you answer a question incorrectly,
then you lose all the money you have won, except that the 1000 and
32000 prizes are guaranteed. And you have 3 prompts: the call to the
friend, the help of the audience, and the help of the computer. Here
are the points:
1. 100
9.
16000
2. 200
10.
32000 («5»)
3. 400
11.
64000
4. 500
12.
125000
5. 1000(«4»)
13.
250000
6. 2000
14.
500000
7. 4000
15.
1000000 («5/5»)
8.
8000
THE FIRST SELECTION SET
1. Take your sheets paper and pens.
2. Arrange these American holiday as they appear in the year.
A. Valentine’s Day
C. New Year
B. Halloween
D. Christmas
Key:
C, A ,B, D.
1. (100) Who discovered America?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. The Pilgrims
c. George Washington
d. Amerigo Vespucci
2. (200) Christopher Columbus landed in America in…
a. 1620
b.
1942
c.
1492
d.
1630
3. (400) Who was looking for gold in Alaska?
a.
Mark Twain
c. Ray Bradbury
b. Ernest Hemingway
d. Jack London
4. (500) Who wasn’t born in the USA.
a. Alexander Bell
c. Henry Ford
b. Orville Wright
d. Wilbur Wright
5. (1000) What is the capital of Georgia?
a. Los Angeles
b. Washington
c. San Francisco
d. Atlanta
6. (2000) His professional career lasted for 70 years.
a. Tomas Jefferson
b. John C. Portman, Jr.
c. Frank L. Wright
d. Orville Wright
7. (4000) Who has a lot of impersonators?
a. Elvis Presley
b. Barbra Streisand
c. Steven Spielberg
d. Eleanor Roosevelt
8. (8000) Which leader was born in slavery.
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Harriet Tubman
d. Eleanor Roosevelt
9. (16000) He is a famous American artist.
a. Norman Rockwell
b. Robert Lee Frost
c. Jack London
d. Benjamin Franklin
10. (32000) In which month is Thanksgiving Day celebrated?
a. December
b. February
c. November
d. March
11. (64000) Eleanor Roosevelt dealt with…
a. education
b. foreign affairs
c. army
d. writing poems
12. (125000) Who is regarded as the most successful director of
Hollywood?
a. Louis Armstrong
b. Elvis Presley
c. Barbra Streisand
d. Steven Spielberg
13.
(25000) America celebrates it on the 4th of July.
a. St. Valentine’s Day
b. Thanksgiving Day
c. Independence Day
d. Mother’s Day
14. (500000) He wrote imaginative science – fiction stories.
a. Ray Bradbury
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Robert Frost
d. Jack London
15. 1000000 Portman Jr. Lived most of his life in…
a. Atlanta
b. Boston
c. New York
d. Washington
THE SECOND SELECTION SET
Arrange these cities from the youngest to the oldest.
A. Boston
C. Moscow
B. St. Petersburg
D. Kaluga
1. (100) Who was the first president of the USA?
a. London
b. F.D. Roosevelt
c. George Washington
d. Bill Clinton
2. (200) Where is the Statue of Liberty located?
a. New York
b. Massachusetts
c. California
d. Atlanta
3. ( 400)
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of…
a. Italy
b. England
c. Russia
d. France
4. (500) Who built the first mass produced car?
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Henry Ford
c. Alexander Bell
d. Norman Rockwell
5. (1000) What is the capital of Massachusetts?
a. St. Louis
b. Boston
c. Memphis
d. New York
6
(2000) He wrote about common people of the American West.
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Robert Frost
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Mark Twain
7. (4000)
Many of his books are set in Europe?
a. Ernest Hemingway
c. Ray Bradbury
b. Mark Twain
d. Jack London
. (8000) Which of these characters wasn’t created by Walt Disney?
a. Mickey Mouse
b. Bugs Bunny
c. Donald Duck
d. Pluto
9. (16000) He was a great humanitarian.
a. Alexander Bell
b. Orville Wright
c. Henry Ford
d. Elvis Presley
10. (32000) He created beautiful glass elevators?
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. John C. Portman Jr.
c. Wilbur Wright
d. Henry Ford
11. (64000) He was known as the “King of Jazz”
a. Louis Armstrong
b. Steven Spielberg
c. Elvis Presley
d. Barbra Streisand
12. (125000) This political leader was the president of the USA during the Civil War/
a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Eleanor Roosevelt
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Harriet Tubman
13. (25000) The lightning rod was invented by…
a. Alexander Bell
b. Henry Ford
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Mark Twain
14. (500000) He was shot in Ford’s Theatre.
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. George Washington
c. F.D. Roosevelt
d. Thomas Jefferson
15. (1000000) The fist university in America was…
a. Boston
b. MIT Cambridge
c. Harvard
d. Oxford
THE THIRD SELECTION SET
Arrange the weekdays as they appear in the week
A. Sunday
C. Friday
B. Tuesday
D. Wednesday
Key:
A, B, D, C.
1. (100)
a. 13 stripes
c. 30 stripes
The American flag has…
b. 50 stripes
d/ 51 stripes
2. (200) His real name was Samuel Clemens.
a. Jack London
b. Ray Bradbury
c. Mark Twain
d. Ernest Hemingway
3. (400) A popular American food is…
a. barbeque ribs
b. fish and chips
c. pelmeni
d. fruit salad
4. (500) What is the national sport in America?
a. baseball
b. soccer
c. football
d. basketball
5. (1000) Where is the tallest building in the world located?
a. Canada
b. Taiwan
c. the USA
d. Russia
6. (2000) He never received any formal education.
a. Mark Twain
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Jack London
d. Emily Dickinson
7. (4000) He became rich and famous before he was 30.
a. M. Twain
b. R. Bradbury
c. J. London
d. Walt Disney
8. (8000) The Wright brothers built the first…
a. telephone
b. airplane
c. car
d. phonograph
9. (16000)
a. a state
c. a. county
Washington D.C. is…
b .a district
d. an island
10.
(32000) Christopher Columbus thought he had reached…
a. China
b. Japan
c. India
d. America
11. (64000) Benjamin Franklin wrote one of the most famous…
a. autobiographies
b. proclamations
c. declarations
d. emancipations
12. (125000)
a. 1 st president
c. 3 rd president
Abraham Lincoln was the…
b. 16 th president
d. 40 th president
13. ( 250000) John Wilkes Booth assassinated…
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. George Washington
c. Th0mas Jefferson
d. John Kennedy
14. (500000)
Elvis Presley was known as the “King of…”
a. Jazz
b. Heavy metal
c. Rock-n-roll
d. Pop music
15. (1000000) Boston was founded in…
a. 1620
b. 1636
c. 1630
d. 1699
CONGRATULATIONS!