So many countries, so many customs: Great Britain, America, Russia
Intellectual Game.
The English language surrounds us like a sea, and like the waters of a deep sea it is full of mysteries.
Who wrote the novel “War and Peace”?
Leo Tolstoy
Who was the first president of the USA?
George Washington
Who created the best animated cartoons in the USA?
Walt Disney
Whose portrait can you see on British bank notes?
Elizabeth II
Whose figure is at the top of the monument in Trafalgar Square?
Admiral Nelson
SPORT
It is a mixture of skiing, skating, gymnastics and ballet
freestyle skiing
When were the Olympic Games held in Russia?
1980
Finish the Olympic motto “Faster. Higher… “
stronger
This kind of sport started in Scotland and now is a game of aristocrats
golf
What is the American equivalent for the word “athletics”?
track-and-field
A musical style where the singer speaks or shouts the words
rap
The author of such ballets as “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
What kind of building is this?
The Bolshoi Theatre
A famous master of violins, a student of Amati
Antonio Stradivari
The most ancient musical instrument which existed thousand years ago
flute
What is the centre of the cinema production in the USA?
What city is considered to be the centre of Russian culture?
St. Petersburg
She was a British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. Her main characters are Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple
Agatha Christie
The most famous British rock- group, first performing in Liverpool. They were broken up in 1970
The Beatles
What are the two oldest universities in Great Britain?
Oxford Cambridge