My friends! It will be nice to go on with our traditions and to choose the best question asked in December. As usual, each of us should choose five best questions. The one which will get more votes will be admitted to be the best.
Here are the questions:
Round 1(Dan).
Question: Here is an idiom: to have what it takes. You should tell me what it means and add your OWN example to get the scores.
Answer: to be able to act efficiently and effectively.
Round 2 (Dan).
Question: One famous French writer wrote a great book about three outstanding men, who belonged to the different generations of the same family and had the same last name. Two of them were famous writers while the other was an outranked serviceman. You should tell me the title of the book and the name of its author. The family name of those people is mentioned in the book's title.
Answer: Andre Maurois “The Titans” (The Three Dumas)
Round 3 (Dan).
Question: Here is the sentence:
Wearing cowboy hats is the in-thing at country clubs.
You should
a) tell me what this sentence means or replace the underlined phrase with its synonym;
b) give your own example with this phrasal verb.
Answer: to be popular or fashionable at the time.
Round 4 (Bet)
Question: I am a thing. You can see me at night, I look good what am I.
Answer: the Moon Halo.
Round: 5 (Onee)
Question:
I wont make the same mistake again dad said andy
Please rewrite the sentence above using CORRECT CAPITAL LETTERS and CORRECT PUNCTUATION. :)))
Answer: "I won't make the same mistake again, Dad," said Andy.
ROUND 6 (Risty)
Question: I'm a normal bread (it has many varieties, but I love only one variety) you can buy to your nearest Arabic Bakeshop, I'm round and a bit salty, (because you can topped me different things),I'm very simple (for me) and so tasty, you can eat me on breakfast or afternoon siestas, some eat me for lunch. I look like your favorite famous Italian bread dish but I'm famous in Arabs. What am I?
Answer: MANAKISH/MANAKEESH.
Round 7 (Bet)
Question: t is a well-known desert where rain comes once or twice after many days but recently scientists said most probably there was a waterbody many days ago....what its name.
Answer: The Atacama desert in South America
ROUND: 8 (Onee)
QUESTION: Mention 3 dangerous substances in cigarette?
Answer: Nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide
Round: 9 (Onee)
Question:
What is the grass which grows the fastest??
Answer: Bamboo.
Round 10 (Dan).
Question: In the box is something that can give light, can burn down and can go out. What is in the box?
Answer: a match or a candle.
Round 11 (Mishaikh).
Question: He was a mighty leader (1162-1227) rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history. After uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, he conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China.
You have to give his name.
Answer: Genghis Khan.
Round 12 (Risty)
It is Japanese animation series inspired by light novels with three sequels, the main characters are a military/mercenary man and a high school student, the story rotates that the military/mercenary man needs to protect the Japanese high school student because she has an exceptional sleeping intelligence that is the key to developing black technology. This anime genre is Mecha. Now, what is the name of these two characters?
Answer: Sousuke Sagara and Kaname Chidori.
Round 13 (Mishaikh).
Question: Give the name of the lake in the following picture, and where it is located.
Answer: The Deep Blue Lakes of Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan.
Round 14 (Risty)
Question: I'm part of every normal human, but you can also find me in some animals. I'm against four digits and I'm their opposing force. What am I?
Answer: A thumb.
Round 15 (Dan).
Question: We all know what IT is and we are ITS parts. IT consists of us although IT is different for each of us. What is IT?
Answer: our society.
Round 16 (Luci).
Question: It is a thing...not big one and without it we wouldn't be able to get, where we want to get.
Answer: a corkscrew.
ROUND 17 (Dan).
Question: In the picture you can see some small plastic thing. It is about 15 mm long and about 6-8 mm in diameter. What is it used for and in what kind of sports?
Answer: It is a tail, a terminal point of an arrow. It is used in archery.
ROUND 18 (Bet).
Question: There is (are) a thing which we can see sometimes with our own eyes. scientists are very curious about it though even they have no clear idea about it. But, an interesting thing/point-this sort of thing/object was also observed in the ancient period and there are many myths about it! So, what is it?
Answer: UFO.
ROUND 19 (Onee)
Question: What does this symbol mean? (Picture)
Answer: It means you're in nuclear area
ROUND 20 (Onee)
Question: The sum of 3 ages of Andrew, Billy, and Cruise is 69. The age of Billy is 14 years above Andrew. Cruise is older 7 years than Andrew. WHO and HOW old is the oldest?
Answer: the oldest is Billy with the age of 30.
Round 21(Risty).
Question:
If you’re a Filipino you can eat me for breakfast, lunch and even dinner, I’m the best partner of chocolate porridge/soup yet I’m salty. I think other nationalities doesn’t like me because I’m stinky and once you cook me my
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Okay, congrates, everybody!
My dear friends! I think that it is time to tell you whose question has been chosen as the best.
Our winner is QUESTION 4 about the Moon Halo and its author, BET (four votes)
However, I'd like to say a few more words. Four other questions have also got three votes each (# 2, 5, 14, 21) and I personally like one of them most of all. It is Question 14 (Risty) about a thumb. I think that almost nobody of you knew that fingers/toes can be mentioned as DIGITS.
So, I will award all authors of the winning questions with a very useful book on American English. It is "Check your English vocabulary" by Rawdon Wyatt. As all the modern world tends to speak American English, you all will like this book. Those who are not among the winners can also have it. Just tell me, OK?
Thanks, my friends! I will be waiting for other's opinions till Saturday.
1,5,13,14,20
I would grade these questions:
1. 21
2. 10
3. 1
4. 7
5. 5
6. 4
Thank you so much, Eva... :D :D ..... Hugs so tight... :D
Evangelina said:
Dear Onee! Thanks for your choice!
No problem, let it be as it is.
3, 4, 7, 9, 18.
Sir Danny, I'm sorry for always vanishing suddenly. :D I'm not good at commenting from the phone, the end of year....I was not able to touch my laptop even for a little while. This game should keep going.... ^_^
Hello, Tanya!
Danny, thanks a lot, yes I am okay.
Hi, my friends! Here is my choice:
2, 14, 15, 16, 17