What do you know about
America?
Викторина по страноведению
для 9 – 10 классов
Iраунд
1. History of America
1. What was the first holiday, celebrated by
American colonies?
a) Thanksgiving
b) the New Year
c) Easter
d) Christmas
(5.000$)
2. Who was the first President of the
USA?
a) Theodore Roosevelt
d) Benjamin Franklin
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) George Washington
(10.000$)
3. What tea party is a historical event?
a) Franklin and Washington tea party
b) Roosevelt and Churchill tea party
c) Boston tea party
d) Atlanta tea party
(15.000$)
4. What was the number of the first
English colonies in America?
a) 14
b) 27
c) 45
d) 13
(20.000$)
5. When was the Declaration of
Independence issued?
a) on July 4th, 1776
b) on July 4th, 1778
c) on July 14th, 1776
d) on July 4th, 1789
(25.000$)
6. Where was the Constitution of the
USA worked out?
a)
b)
c)
d)
In Atlanta
In New York
In Washington
In Philadelphia
(30.000$)
7. Why did the pilgrims come to
America?
a) for religious freedom
b) for great money
c) for a new land
d) for great love
II раунд. Literature
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Who wrote the story ‘The old man and the sea’?
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Edgar Poe
Walt Whitman
2. Who wrote “An American tragedy”?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b)Mark Twain
c)Edgar Poe
d) Theodore Dreiser
3. Who is the founder of the mordern
detective stories?
a) Arthur Conan – Doyle
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) Edgar Poe
d)Walter Scott
4. Who is the author of the novel “The
Martian Chronicles”?
a) Edgar Poe
b) Ray Bradbury
c) Robert Heinlein
d) Arthur Clark
III раунд
1. Education, culture, science.
1.What is the national anthem of the USA?
a) the star – sprangled banner
b) America, the beautiful
c) silent night
d) yesterday
(10.000$)
3. What was the first American
University?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Harvard college
Yelle college
Massaachusetts college
Wisconsin college
(20.000$)
4. What is the famous library in
Washington?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Library of the White House
Library of Capitol
Library of the Supreme Court
Library of Congress
(25.000$)
5. Who is the “King of rock-and-roll”&
a)
b)
c)
d)
Walt Disney
Louis Armstrong
Elvis Presley
Stephen Spielberg
(30.000$)
6. Who is the father of the telephone?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Alexander Bell
Henry Ford
Orville Wright
Norman Rockwell
(40.000$)
7. What is the center of the cinema
production in the USA?
a)
b)
c)
d)
New York
Washington
Boston
Hollywood
(50.000$)
IV раунд
Famous people
1. Who is considered to be the Father of his
country?
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) George Washington
(10.000$)
2. Who created the best animated
cartoons in the USA?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Walt Disney
Charles Jones
Norman Rockwell
John Portman
(15.000$)
3. Which of the US Presidents was a
Hollywood actor?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ronald Reagan
Benjamin Franklin
George Bush
Abraham Lincoln
(20.000$)
4. Who is the 43d President of the
USA?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
George Bush, junior
George Bush
(25.000$)
5. What President was assassinates in
Dallas?
a)
b)
c)
d)
George Bush
Ronald Reagan
John Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
(30.000$)
6. Who is the greatest American
architect of all times?
a)John Portman
b) Stephen Spielberg
c) Louis Armstrong
d) Frank Lloyd Wright
(40.000$)
7. Who was known as the ‘King of
jazz’?
a) Elvis Presley
b) Wilbur Wright
c) Ansel Adams
d) Louis Armstrong
(50.000$)