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[Yu_Bum_suk]

If you're into trivia quizes, try giving your students this and see if your students can do better than my best high school classes. I gave a class this quiz today, splitting them into groups, and just about every group knew the answer to at least 80% of the questions (the questions go from easier to more difficult). I'd love to know how your uni classes compare.


Name 3:

1. 3 American presidents
2. 3 people from England
3. 3 non-Korean islands
4. The three most populous countries in the world
5. 3 animals that only live in Australia


What doesn�t� belong:

1. Car / driving / tire / road
2. Behind / almost / among / with
3. Went / teach / prove / learn
4. Sudden / immediate / quickly / swift
5. Hold / hit / give / go


Find the mistake:

1. Their coming to the restaurant soon.
2. It will be great. We are really expecting it. (Konglish)
3. The dog lost it�s owner.
4. That�s a very unique watch!
5. Waiting for the bus, a brick fell on my head.


Spelling:

1. acceptable
2. conscientious
3. drunkenness
4. exhilarate
5. hierarchy


Capital cities:

1. China
2. Russia
3. Spain
4. Denmark
5. Brazil


대한민국:

1. Where is Moonhak Stadium?
2. What American General landed at Incheon to drive communist forces from South Korea?
3. What Korean company made a car called the Pony?
4. How many Korean universities are ranked in the top 100 in the world?
5. What is the longest river in the ROK?

[hubba bubba]

I must have been in Korea for too long. Some of those sentences sound fine to me.

Forget the college students, I'd like to know how all of us English teachers would do on that test!

[faster]

I disagree with the "very unique" problem - it's not the slightest bit illogical to say that, while everyone/thing is "different from others" some are *less like others* or *more different from everone/thing else*. For example, all animals are unique, but it's hard to argue that a platypus isn't more unique than, say, a coyote.

The misplaced modifier ("brick") one is a goody. Those can be funny when you explain them.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Vicissitude]

Too late now, but my uni. students wouldn't understand a word on your list. Even if they had a dictionary and I made them look up every word, they still wouldn't get it. If you are trying to compare good high school students with any random uni. students, this is like comparing apples with lettuce.