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Question

Answer

1.

Who wrote “Treasure Island”?

Robert Luis Stevenson

2.

Who wrote “The Invisible man”?

Herbert George Wells

3.

Who is the creator of Doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes?

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.

Who was the father of the historical novel in the world literature?

Walter Scott

5.

What American writer went to the Klondike during the gold rush as a gold miner?

Jack London

6.

Who wrote the story “The Old Man and the Sea”?

Ernest Hemingway

7.

Who was the author of Jungle Book?

Rudyard Kipling

8.

Who is Scotland’s national poet?

Robert Burns

9.

Who is the most famous playwright in the world?

William Shakespeare

10.

She is called the queen of a detective novel. She wrote 68 novels and some plays.

Agatha Christie

11.

This author became famous very quickly. The story about a boy-magician is called the best-seller of children literature.

Joanne Kathleen Rowling

The first half of quotation

The second half of quotation

The author

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man.

If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake…

… we must not interrupt him too soon.

Admiral Nelson

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us.

Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America…

… - there is the United States of America.

Barack Obama

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation or reward,..

… safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

One of the greatest problems of our time…

… is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Tomas More

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English Poet

Russian Song

1.

Robert Burns “For the Sake of Somebody”

«Моей душе покоя нет», пер. С.Я.Маршака, муз. А.Петрова, исп. А.Фрейндлих (из к/ф «Служебный роман»)

2.

Robert Burns “Cold Poverty and Restless Love”

«Любовь и бедность», пер. С.Я.Маршака, муз. В.Титова, исп. А.Калягин (из к/ф «Здравствуйте, я ваша тетя!»)

3.

Sir Thomas Moore “Those Evening Bells”

«Вечерний звон», пер. И.Козлова, муз. А.Алябьева, исп. Московский камерный мужской хор «Пересвет»

4.

Rudyard Kipling “The Gipsy Trail”

«Мохнатый шмель», пер. Г.Кружкова, муз. А.Петрова, исп. Н.Михалков (из к/ф «Жестокий романс»)

5.

Rudyard Kipling

“I’ve never sailed the Amazon”

«На далекой Амазонке», пер. С.Я.Маршака, муз. С.Никитина, исп. В.Берковский

6.

William Shakespeare “Sonnet 102”

«Люблю», пер. С.Я.Маршака, муз. М.Таривердиева, исп. М.Таривердиев (из к/ф «Адам женится на Еве»)

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Questions

Answer

1.

Who invented a machine on which the modern computer is based?

Charles Babbage

2.

Who discovered the law of gravity when an apple fell on his head?

Isaac Newton

3.

Who tried to prove that our remote granddads and grannies were monkeys?

Charles Darwin

4.

This man invented telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

5.

A famous explorer who discovered Australia and Hawaii

James Cook

6.

This famous scientist discovered laws of electricity

Michael Faraday

7.

This brave scientist discovered penicillin

Alexander Fleming

8.

The inventor of the steam engine

James Watt

9.

A famous explorer of Africa, the first European to see the Zambezi River and the Victoria Falls

David Livingstone

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Painter

Picture

1.

Joshua Reynolds

Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers

2.

Thomas Gainsborough

Mr and Mrs Robert Andrews

3.

John Constable

The Hay Wain

4.

William Blake

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing

5.

John Everett Millais

Christ in the House of His Parents (The Carpenter’s Shop)

6.

William Hogarth

The Tete a Tete