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SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

General knowledge quizes are God's gift.

I stole/adapted an idea for a quiz I think from here. I call this quiz Monster. Kids at school request to play Monster all the time, but my ability at thinking up general knowledge questions all the time is crap.

Anyway, Monster, briefly, involves a 20 square grid on the board: A, B, C........T. Two teams (boys v girls usually in my case), or more teams if you wish (Kims v Lees v Parks v Others is a fun one, although numerically unfair, but that can be kind of fun - and you can surprise them at the end by declaring that the highest average points-per-student-per-team is the winner - thus a team of 3 Parks can beat a team of 8 Kims comfortably, because 40 points for a team of 4 students is better than 70 points for a team of 8 ).

So, a kid from a team must pick a square. Teams have 10 seconds to volunteer to choose a square, otherwise they'll lose points. Each square is a question worth either 10 points (easy), 20 points (a little less easy), 30 points (more difficult), 40 points (more difficult) or MONSTER, worth zero points. With the latter, the kid that picks the square must answer solo (confering is okay with points questions). If the kid answers a MONSTER question correctly, he or she can kill a member of the opposing team (typically the smartest/most prominent student). If they answer wrongly, then they die. Dead students, obviously, cannot participate further and must be as silent as the grave for the remainder of the game.

There are 20 squares, thus 20 questions, thus there are 4 questions worth 10 points, 4 questions worth 20, and so on (thus 4 Monster questions).

10 point question examples:

Spell Australia perfectly in 10 seconds, no mistakes.
What's the Queen of England's name? (more points available if they can spell it with excellent pronunciation)
How many legs do butterflies have? (6)
How many months have 31 days?

20-point questions examples:

What city is Hollywood in?
Where's/what's this? (pic of Sydney Opera House)
What was destroyed on 2001/9/11?
Name two animals with 8 legs (spider and scorpion available)

30-point questions examples:

What year did George W Bush become President?
How many seconds are there in one year?
Name all seven English-speaking countries (UK, USA, Canada, Aus, NZ, Ireland, South Africa)
What's the area of the world called that contains Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq?

40-point questions examples:

What's the most northerly Japanese city....Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kobe or Sapporo?
What three subway lines go through Jongno-3-ga?
Ibuprophen, Asprin, Paracetamol, Codeine and Morphine are all....what? (painkillers)
What does the city of Oslo (Norway) give the city of London every year? (hint: in December)

MONSTER questions (no confering. The student who volunteered to pick this particular square must answer solo)

What does "I dunno" mean?
What subway line is Myeong-dong on?
Name 8 European countries.
After the Sun and the Moon, what's the brightest thing in the night sky? (Venus)

There you go. Use this quiz in your classes. If you nice people can return my excellent favour and either (a) give examples of general knowledge questions you like using or (b) give examples, with detail, of general knowledge quizes you've used or you like or (c) both, I'd be very grateful. If we can get a thread packed full of quiz/question ideas, we've all got a great bunch of really fun lessons for weeks on end. As you can see, my questions are all very male/geography orientated and I need more variation - help!

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

"How many seconds in a year" is the same difficulty as "What is the Middle East"?

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

HydePark · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: Korea

How many colors are in the rainbow? (7)
Name the four top teams in the 2002 World Cup. (Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Korea)
What year did World War I begin? (1914)
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
What is the largest animal? (Blue whale)
What animal has the longest tongue (Giraffe)
Who painted the Mona Lisa? (Leonardo DaVinci)
What country has the most tourists? (USA)
What city has the oldest subway system? (London)
Who is on the American 1 dollar bill? (G. Washington)
Who is on the British 1 pound coin? (Queen)
What animal can run the fastest? (Cheetah)
If you mix red and blue, what color do you get? (purple/violet)
What is the capital of England? (London)
What is the capital of the USA? (Washington D.C.)
What is the capital of Korea? (Seoul)
What is the capital of France? (Paris)

Corporal · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

How many "z"s are there in "quizzes"?

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

antoniothegreat · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Yangpyeong

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HydePark · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: Korea

Hotpants · Joined: 27 Jan 2006

There are a list of quiz sites on my link below. How about also including lateral thinking puzzles? They require a reasonable English level, and at first, the students will remain totally confused without a single idea, but if directed well by you, in the long run they seem to help trying to get the students to relax and think more creatively in their answers. Students are also quite fascinated when you tell them the supposed answers to these puzzles.