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Answer Short Question:

• What is the area of low land between hills or mountains? - Valley/canyon


• What do we call a group of islands? - Archipelago
• What do we call drawings or writing on a wall, especially in a public place? -
Graffiti
• What do we call the place where pedestrians can cross a street? -
Crosswalk/pedestrian crossing/zebra crossing
• What do we cover our necks with in the winter? - Scarf/scarves
• What is the opposite of 'damp'? - Dry
• When you want to include a picture or other file into an email, what will you
do? - Attach
• What do we call the story a person tells to make people laugh? - Joke
• What do we call the largest land animal living in Africa or India? - Elephant
• Which one of the following is not a mythological animal, unicorn, giraffe,
dragon or
mermaid? - Giraffe
• How many hemispheres does the equator divide earth into? - Two/2
• How would you describe the process in which ice becomes water? -
Melting/thawing
• What category do the bee, the butterfly, and the mosquito fall into? - Insect
• What natural resource is used in paper industry? - Wood
• What do you call an individual musical sound? - Note
• What kind of knowledge do scientists believe in, subjective or objective? -
Objective
• What kind of drugs is used for killing bacteria? - Antibiotics/Antibiotic
• What do we call the government run by a dictator, autocracy or democracy?
- Autocracy
• Under which circumstance would you describe the economy as a good one,
the one
with high unemployment or low unemployment? - Low unemployment
• What do we call a doctor who can sell prescribed medicines? -
Pharmacist/chemist
• What do we call the language which is confused and unintelligible, jargon or
vocabulary? - Jargon
• Is a man, whose wife is dead, a widow or a widower? - Widower
• What do we call the first paragraph of a report? - Introduction
• What kind of forms are tragedy and comedy? - Drama
• What is the thing that has iron inside and can attract iron? - Magnet
• Which one has more academic articles, magazines or journals? - Journals
• What is the opposite of convex? - Concave
• Who is the Swiss greatest scientist in physics? - Einstein
• Oral English is different from academic English. Which is the best term to
describe
academic English: tolerant or rigorous? - Rigorous
• Which part of your leg can make it possible to bend? - Knee
• How many times is a biannual magazine published in one year? - Two/twice
• What will snow become after it melts? - Water
• What electronic device wakes you up in the morning? - Alarm clock
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• What publication reports daily news? - Newspaper
• What is the wet place does crocodile prefer to live in? - Swamp/marsh
• Who sits in the cockpit of an airplane? - Pilot
• When something has increased by triple, how many times does it increase?
-
Three times/three
• If a species is described as venomous, what substance does it have? -
Venom/poison
• If you invented something, what can you apply for to prevent others copying
your
invention? - Patent
• What natural resource is used by a carpenter? - Wood/timber
• In the word ‘postgraduate’, what does the ‘post’ mean? - After
• Who is a physician who performs surgical operations? - Surgeon
• Before airplanes were invented, how did people travel from America to
Europe? - By ship
• What are your options in gender when you completing an application form? -
Male and
female
• Which continent do China, India, Korea and Japan locate in? - Asia
• What do we call a tower which is designed to emit light to serve as a
navigational aid at
sea? - Lighthouse
• What do you call it when two or more people are speaking to each other
using
telephones? - Teleconference
• What is the extreme fear from strangers? - Xenophobia
• What would a person do usually on sabbatical? - Study/Travel
• What do we call the pen that receives its ink from its reservoir? - Fountain
pen
• What is the act of jumping into the water? - Diving
• What does a barometer measure? - Air pressure
• What do we call counting people who are living in a state or country? -
Census
• What is the thing used for sun protection in summer? -
Sunscreen/sunblock/suntan lotion
• Which one would you most likely to see in the lake, a swan or a crocodile? -
Swan
• How do you call someone with no hair? - Bald
• What is the process where the color becomes lighter and lighter when
exposed to
sunlight for a long time? - Fade
• What do we call a city in a country that is responsible to govern it? - Political
capital
• What is the national flower of India? - Lotus
• What do people hold overhead when it is raining? - Umbrella
• What thing do postgraduate students have that undergraduate students
don’t? -
Bachelor degree
• What are the organs of the body that we can breathe with? - Lungs/Noses
• What is the legal document protecting someone's intellectual property? -
Patent
• What do meter and millimeter measure, weight or length? - Length
• A coworker in the same institution is a colleague or a peer? - Colleague
• Which sense of human relates to the following words, soft and roughness? -
Tactile sensation/sense of touch/haptic
• What do you call a notice of death in a newspaper? - Obituary
• When your bone is injured and broken, what would you say you have? –
Fracture
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• Which century is the year 1642 in? - Seventeenth
• If you have a toothache, who will you go to? - Dentist
• What is the long speech that is spoken by only one actor in a film or
play? - Monologue/soliloquy
• What device is used to measure the height of mountains? - Altimeter
• What is the highest position in the embassy? - Ambassador
• What do we call famous people? - Celebrity
• What is the description of events that is spoken with background music
during a
film or a play? - Narration
• What is the frozen type of water called? - Ice
• Jack is having a presentation on Wednesday. Today is Tuesday. When will
Jack
have his speech, today, tomorrow or next week? - Tomorrow
• What do we call a picture that a doctor takes to see inside your body? - X-ray
• What is the device that controls electrical appliances on and off? - Switch
• What do we call people who work on ship or plane? - Crew
• How do we call the young horse? - Pony/foal

• What do you call the son of your sister or brother? - Nephew


• What do you call students in universities who have not yet graduated? -
Undergraduates
• Whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures? -
Carpenter
• What do you call the substances used to speed up a chemical reaction? -
Catalyst
• What do you call a doctor specialized in eye treatments? -
Oculist/ophthalmologist
• What do you call a difficult time when economic activities slow down, and
there are
more people unemployed? - Recession/depression
• What is the process of moving information from a computer to the
Internet? - Upload/uploading
• What does sub-Mediterranean refer to? - Climate
• What do we call the animals that live in the sea? - Marine animals
• Where do weddings happen? - Church/wedding venue
• What is the pointing device used in a presentation? - Laser pointer/laser pen
• What is the huge truck that contains oil? - Oil tanker
• What day is the first day of a week which starts with T? - Tuesday
• What are the facilities on shore that monitor ships or communicate with
them by radio
signals? - Coast radio station
• What do you describe something that can be carried easily, portable or
cumbersome? - Portable
• What is the part of a river where it joins the sea? - Estuary
• What do you call a person who is one hundred years old or more? -
Centenarian
• Which one in the four seasons has the lowest temperature? - Winter
• What do we call a person's move to a more important job or rank in a
company? –
Promotion
• How do we describe a person who is weak and can easily get hurt physically
or
emotionally? - Vulnerable
• What mark is used in writing to show that a sentence is over? - Period/full
stop
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• What do you call the money that you have to pay as a punishment? - Fine
• What is the antonym of the word 'internal'? - External
• What do we call the small electronic device that you use for making
mathematical
calculations? - Calculator
• What is the name of the part that extends beyond the end of a dog's body? -
Tail
• How do we describe the food that is not cooked? - Raw/uncooked
• What is the collective name for cups, bowls and bottles? - Container
• What do we call a situation that is extremely difficult? -
Plight/predicament/dilemma
• What do we call a person who is considered for a position in an election? -
Candidate/nominee
• What do we call the area where actors perform in a theatre? - Stage
• What is the opposite of 'false'? - True/correct
• How do we describe the atmosphere or climate that is very damp and hot? -
Sultry
• How do we describe the state of not being drunk? - Sober
• What do we call the money that a company pays you for your work once a
month? -
Salary/wage
• What do we call a doctor who specializes in heart diseases? - Cardiologist
• What do we call the act of joining two or more separate companies into
one? - Merger
• Which device will you use for recording sounds? - Microphone/recorder
• What do we call the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than
one meaning? - Pun/wordplay
• What do we call the tax that government collects on goods coming into a
country? -
Tariff/customs/duty
• Which part does a bird use for flying? - Wing
• How do we describe a surface that is not smooth? - Rough
• Is the letter 'b' a consonant or a vowel? - Consonant
• What is the scientific study of rocks? - Geology
• What do we call the form of substance between gas and solid? - Liquid
• What do we call the process after becoming well again after an illness? -
Recovery
• What is the antonym of 'maximal‘? - Minimal
• What do we call the chemical used for killing insects? -
Pesticide/pesticides/insecticide/insecticides
• What do we call the flat where passengers get on and off their trains? -
Platform
• What is the row of bones down your back? - Spine/backbone
• What do we call the sound being reflected off the surface such as a wall? -
Echo
• What do we call a writer's first version of the book without publishing? -
Manuscript
• What do we call the action of expressing disapproval of somebody or
opinions about
someone's faults and bad qualities? - Criticism/critique
• What do we call a state of being untidy, badly prepared or badly organized? -
Disorder
• What device enables you to change television channels at a distance? -
Remote /remote
control
• What do we call the largest main stem of a tree from which the branches
grow? - Trunk
• What do we call the outer covering of a tree? - Bark
• What do we call the man who is the ruler of an empire? – Emperor
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• What is it inside your skull? - Brain

• What is the opposite of the word 'import'? - Export


• What do we call the agreement between two groups of people to stop
fighting or arguing
for a short time? - Truce/ceasefire
• What do you need to attach to an envelope before posting it? - Stamps
• What do we call an aircraft with blades on top which turn around quickly to
make it fly? -
Helicopter
• What do we call the ship that can travel below the surface of sea? -
Submarine
What is the opposite of 'inside'? - Outside

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