Jeopardy Game.
English-Speaking Countries.
Today I am very glad to invite you to our Jeopardy Game. It is devoted to five English-speaking countries we have already studied. They are: Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
First of all I’d like to introduce the rules of the game to you. We have two teams which are called … and each of the teams has its own emblem. You have to pass three rounds. Each round has five sections; in each section there are five questions. According to their difficulty, each question may bring you from 10 to 50 points in the first round, from 20 to 100 points in the second round, and from 40 to 200 points in the third one.
The right to answer the question belongs to the team which raises its emblem up first.
If the answer is correct the team will get the number of the points the question costs. If you give the wrong answer you will loose a number of points according to the question’s rate, and the other team may try to give its variant of the answer.
Each round has three auction questions (they are marked out). If a team chooses such a question it has to make a stake to play in the game otherwise the question can be “re-bought” by the other team.
The last round which is called “Final” has ten categories (topics). Each team in turn chooses a category which it doesn’t want to play with. This category disappears from the list. The last remaining category is the FINAL one.
Each team makes a stake according to the number of points the team has by the beginning of the Final Round. The teams answer the Final question in writing and depending of right or wrong answer gets or looses the number of points worth their stakes.
So, if everything is clear to you we are starting right now.
Round 1.
Canadian Geography.
10. What is the area of Canada? (10 mln. Sq. km.)
20. How many oceans is Canada washed by? (3: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic)
30. Which of the Great Lakes are situated in Canada? (Superior, Huron, Eiry, Ontario)
40. Where are the Niagara Falls situated? (between lakes Eiry and Ontario)
50. What is the most beautiful part of the Niagara Falls called? the Horse Shoe)
London.
10. What is the oldest part of London? (the City)
20. What event ended the plague in London in 1666? (the Great Fire of London)
30. What is one of the most ancient buildings of London, founded by William the Conqueror in the 11th century, used as a fortress, a palace, a prison and a royal treasury? (the Tower)
40. What is the address of the Prime Minister? (10, Downing Street)
50. This church known in Russian as “западный монастырь”, from its position 5 km west of London’s center, founded in the year 750 AD. (Westminster Abbey)
US Economy.
10. The center of film industry in the USA. (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Cal.)
20. Till the mid-19th century it was the basis for the south’s economy; it was also what more than anything, made the South different from the rest of the country. (slavery)
30. In colonial times New England prospered from fishing and trade; New England brought sugar up from the islands of the west Indies, used the sugar to make rum, took the rum to West Africa and traded it for slaves and then sold the slaves in the West Indies. What was that trade called? (the triangle trade)
40. This is the world-known automobile center in the USA. (Detroit, Michigan)
50. What is the US economy based on? (the free enterprise system)
Australian Fauna.
10. This is the most instantly recognizable Australian mammal and hardly need a description. You can find it on the State Emblem (kangaroo)
20. This is Australia’s native dog arrived in Australia around 6000 years ago and domesticated by Aboriginal people. (dingo)
30. The name of this instantly recognizable mammal is an aboriginal word meaning “no water” because of its ability to get water from gum leaves. (koala)
40. This animal has a duck-like bill, short legs, webbed feet and a short but thick, beaver-like tail. (platypus)
50. This animal is covered on the back with long, sharp spines. At the first sign of danger it rapidly buries its body in the dirt, leaving only its formidable spines exposed. (echidna)
Sports in Great Britain.
10. What is the queen of sports in Britain? (light athletics)
20. This game is particularly associated with England. There are two teams of 11 players each. A first- class match lasts up to three days with 6 hours’ play on each day.
Amateur players are called “gentlemen”. (cricket)
30. This game is played with an egg-shaped ball, which may be carried and thrown (but not forward). Each team has 15 players. (rugby football)
40. This game is very expensive. It needs large fields and good equipment. This is a popular meeting place of the busyness community. (golf)
50. This sport is big busyness. Every day of the year, except Sundays, there is a race meeting where many people make stakes on that who’ll win. (horse racing)
Round 2
UK Politics.
20. Who is the House of Commons presided over by? (the Speaker)
40. What does Lord Chancellor sit on? (the woolsack)
60. Which of the parties is nicknamed with a rude name for cattle-drivers? Name the party and its nickname. (the Liberal Party – the Whigs)
80. How long has Elisabeth II ruled the UK? (since 1952)
100. Who was the longest ruling monarch of the UK? (queen Victoria – 64 years: 1837-1901)
Australian Holidays.
20. This national holiday, observed on 26 January, commemorates the arrival of the first Fleet, in 1788. (Australia Day)
40. The most popular public holiday in all countries – members of the Commonwealth celebrated 6 days before the New Year’s Day. (Christmas)
60. On the first Tuesday in November Australia’s premier horse race is run at Flemington Racecourse. It’s a public holiday in Melbourne. (Melbourne Cup)
80. When do Australians celebrate Labour Day? (1st Monday in October)
100. What holiday is celebrated in March in Australian Capital Territory? (Canberra Day)
US Capital.
20. This engineer created the design of a new capital based on Versailles. (Pierre Charles L’Enfant)
40. This is the main busyness of the capital. (government)
60. This is the highest building in Washington. There is a law not to build houses higher than it is. (the Capitol) (there is a picture of the Capitol which may be shown to the students – Рисунок1)
80. What is the address of the White House in Washington? (1600, Pennsylvania Avenue)
(Рисунок2)
100. This is the monument in Washington, DC, dedicated to an American president. Its nickname is “the Pencil” (Washington Monument)
(Рисунок3)
Canadian Population.
20. Who were the first settlers of Canada? (Eskimos and Indians)
40. What is the official language in Canada? (English and French)
60. What’s the province of Newfoundland famous for? (there’s almost no Indian population there)
80. What is the main population in Baffin Land? (Eskimos)
100. When did the Vikings come to North America? (about 1000 years ago)
Canadian Cities.
20. What is the name the Canadians call their country? (Non-American America)
40. Where is the monument to Taras Shevchenko situated? (in Pallermo)
60. What is the most Ukranian of all Canadian provinces? (Manitoba)
80. What does the word “Quebec” mean? (a place where the river narrows – Indian)
100 Say it in Indian: “A place where people meet”. (Toronto)
Round 3.
UK Prominent People.
40. He was one of the most well known poets and playwrights of the world, born in the 16th century. (William Shakespeare)
80. She was the only woman Prime Minister in the UK called “The Iron Lady” (Margaret Thatcher)
120. This monarch was married 6 times, his second daughter Elisabeth I became the queen known as the “virgin queen”. (Henry VIII)
160. This actress is known not only in Britain but all over the world thank to her roles as Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton and of course her Scarlet O’Hara from the screen version of “Gone with the Wind”. (Vivien Leigh)
200. He is a national Scottish poet. At midnight of 31st December throughout GB people sing his
“Auld Lang Syne”. Remember another his poem:
“My heart’s in the Highlands,
My hear is not here…” (Robert Burns)
Australian States.
40. The state where the largest and the oldest city is situated. (New South Wales)
80. The only island state in Australia. (Tasmania)
120. This is Australia’s holiday state with the capital of Brisbane. (Queensland)
160. Australia’s smallest state formed and separated from New South Wales in 1851. At about the same time gold was discovered, and the population doubled in little more than a year. (Victoria)
200. Its position near the Indian Ocean trading routs led to very early European contact. Abel Tasman was the first to chart part of its coastline. (Western Australia)
US Presidents.
40. Who was the youngest elected president in the history of the USA? (John F. Kennedy)
80. The first president elected as the member of the Republican Party. (A. Lincoln)
120. The longest serving president. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
160. The first president to live in the White House. (John Adams)
200. Which American general, who later became the 34th president, commanded all US forces during WWII? (Dwight David Eisenhower)
Canadian Inventions.
40. This very popular game was developed in the mid-1800s. (ice-hockey)
80. It was invented in 1925 and was very comfortable before television. (battery-less radio)
120. It was created by Ganong Brothers Ltd. And is still produced in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, by this company. (The chocolate bars)
160. It was discovered by Banting and Best in 1921 and saved life to many people. (insulin)
200. A board game which swept the world even outselling Monopoly created by two Canadians. About 50 mln.games have been sold. (Trivial Persuit)
US History.
40. In 1773, to protest a new tax, Bostonians, dressed as Indians, threw 400 crates of British tea into the Boston Harbor. This event was called... (the Boston Tea Party)
80. On the U.S. flag there are 13 stripes and 50 stars. Why? (because originally there were 13 colonies and now there are 50 states)
120. More Americans died in this war than in all other wars combined. (the Civil War)
160. The date of approvement of the declaration of Independence. (4 July, 1776)
200. Give the names of the three ships on which Christopher Columbus made his voyage to America. (Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria)
Final Round
Fauna.
This is New Zealand’s small, tubby, flightless bird and, because it’s nocturnal, is not easy to observe. It is very lazy, sleeping for up to 20 hours a day. (KIWI)
Geography.
In addition to its coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific, this country has a third sea coastline on the Arctic Ocean, giving it the longest coastline of any country. What is the country?
(Canada)
History.
On July 8, 1776, the bell rang out to announce the first reading of this document to the people of Philadelphia. It became then, and still is, a symbol of American Independence. Name the document. (the Declaration of Independence)
Language.
What language is the perfect one of sizeable minority in New York City, Florida and along the Mexican border? (Spanish)
Traditions.
Most of the old New Year customs take place in Scotland, beginning with “first-footing” in which the first person to enter the house in the New Year must be… who?
(a man who must carry food, drink and coal into the house)
Currency.
The USA uses dollars as the basic unit of exchange. There are two types of money, bills and coins. The coins are: cents (pennies), nickels, dimes, and quarters. A quarter is used in most pay telephones and coin-operated machines. How much is it? (25 cents)
Cities.
Name the most famous skyscraper in Washington, DC. (there are no skyscrapers in the capital)
Politics.
The symbol of the US Republican Party is an elephant. Name the second largest party and its symbol. (Democratic; a Donkey)
Prominent People.
His birthplace was the island of Zanzibar and his born name was Farookh Bulsara. When he was eight, he was sent to school in Bombay, where his friends renamed him Freddie. At school he formed his first band, “The Hectics”. He sang for groups Smile, Ibex, Sour Milk Sea, Wreckage in turn. But his glory was connected with the group Queen. (Freddie Mercury)
Organizations.
It was founded in Vancouver in the early 1970s. originally it was called the Don’t Make a Wave Committee. Now it is a global organization with 59 offices in 31 countries. (Greenpeace)