ANSWER SHORT QUESTIONS
7. What is the most important part of the human respiratory system?
Answer: Lung
9. What do we call a doctor who can sell prescribed medicines? Answer:
Pharmacist / chemist
13. What is the word for the place where a river starts? Answer: source /
birthplace / origin
15. How many eggs are there in a dozen? Answer: twelve/ twelve eggs
26. What type of food is an apple? Answer: fruit
27. If you invented something, what can you apply for to prevent others
copying your invention? Answer: Patent
39. Which one in the four seasons has the lowest temperature? Answer:
Winter
42. What do you call the persons who study religions? Answer: Theologians
/ theologists
44. Who is a physician who performs surgical operations? Answer: Surgeon
/ˈsɜːrdʒən/
45. What kind of book is written by a person about their own life?
Answer: Autobiography /ˌɔːtəbaɪˈɑːɡrəfi/
60. How do you call the doctor who treats sick animals? Answer: vet /
veterinarian
67. What is the word for a period of one hundred years? Answer: Century
68. What do we call the first meal of the day? Answer: breakfast
70. What is the boat that carries people from one side of a river to the
other? Answer: Ferry
71. What is the term used for the life history of a person written by
himself? Answer: Autobiography / memoir
73. If Monday is the first day, what day is the forth day? Answer: Thursday
74. How many years does a millennium have? Answer: one thousand/ one
thousand years
81. Which sweet food is produced by bees? Answer: honey
82. On what geographical location would someone be living if their country
is surrounded by water on all sides? Answer: Island
83. Does mathematics or linguistics cover the study of the relations
between numbers? Answer: Mathematics
92. Where do we try on a piece of clothing in a cloths shop? Answer: Fitting
room / changing room
94. What is the name of the field of study that studies the human mind and
behavior? Answer: Psychology
103. Which major branch of science deals with classification of living
things? Answer: Biology
108. Who is a person that makes bread, cakes and pastries? Answer: Baker
125. If something such as fabric or medicine is artificially made, not
natural, what do we say it is? Answer: Synthetic / artificial
133. How many times a year is a quarterly journal published? Answer: Four/
Four times
135. At what ceremony do students receive their degree or diploma at the
end of their period of study? Answer: Graduation / commencement
140. What is the opposite word of "stale"? Answer: Fresh
145. What material is the tire made of? Answer: Rubber
149. What do bees collect from the center of flowers? Answer: pollen /
nectar
151. Which one is more widespread, Korean, Thai or Hindi? Answer: Hindi
155. What does 'subterranean' mean? Answer: Underground
161. What general part of the day is known as dawn? Answer: Sunrise /
sunrises / daybreak
162. Which continent do China, India, Korea and Japan locate in? Answer:
Asia
163. How do you describe the type of magazine that is published four times
a year? Answer: Quarterly
170. If a building is one thousand meters high, from where do we measure
the height? Answer: Sea level
174. What organ on your face do you breathe with? Answer: Nose
176. In mathematics and arithmetic, there are addition, multiplication,
division. What's the other one? Answer: Subtraction
181. What vehicle runs on railways? Answer: Train
184. How many days are there in a fortnight? Answer: Fourteen/ Fourteen
days
187. Where do people go for watching sports or games? Answer: stadium
188. What is the act of reusing waste materials? Answer: Recycling
190. What do we call the treatment in which people use needles to ease
others' pain? Answer: Acupuncture
191. What shows how many people can be in a place like an apartment?
Answer: Capacity
196. What is the study of religion called? Answer: Theology
200. What do we call the bags that contain possessions and people take
with when traveling? Answer: Luggage / baggage / suitcase
201. What is a text that you send to your friends to invite them to a party?
Answer: Invitation
203. What does the word 'T V' stand for? Answer: Television
204. What will ice become when it melts? Answer: Water
209. What do you call the brother of your father or mother? Answer: Uncle
217. What is the section in the library where books can be read but cannot
be borrowed? Answer: Reserve collection
218. What is the collection of pictures called? Answer: album
221. Which one word is used for a brother or sister? Answer: Sibling
222. Where would you expect to find equipment like microscopes, a Bunsen
burner, beaker and petri dish? Answer: Laboratory
225. What do you call a statue or a building that is dedicated in memory of
someone? Answer: Monument / memorial
237. What do you call a specialist who repairs leaking water pipes? Answer:
Plumber
239. What kind of equipment is used to protect motorbike riders' brains
from injury? Answer: Helmet
241. What do we call a period of ten years? Answer: Decade
251. What is a standard set of letters that is used to write one or more
languages based upon the general principle? Answer: Alphabet
254. When something has increased by triple, how many times does it
increase? Answer: Three times
265. What type of shape has four right corners, four lines that are equal in
length? Answer: Square
285. What is a list of historical events arranged in time order? Answer:
chronology / timeline
286. What is the couple's formal relationship called ? Answer: Marriage
293. What do we call three children born at the same time to the same
mother? Answer: Triplets
309. What are winter, spring, summer and autumn? Answer: Seasons
311. Where do passengers wait for airplanes? Answer: Terminal / airport
312. What do we call people who help others get insurance? Answer:
Insurance agents / insurance brokers
328. What is the storyline or the series of scenes of novels, movies, short
stories or plays? Answer: Plot
329. What do we call a group of mountains such as the Himalayas? Answer:
Range
330. What do you call students in universities who have not yet graduated?
Answer: Undergraduates
341. What key mineral makes sea water different from fresh water?
Answer: Salt
342. What is a thermometer used to measure? Answer: temperature
343. How do you call a student that has finished his first year? Answer:
sophomore
345. What is H2O in chemical substances? Answer: Water
353. What do we call the weather conditions like rain, hail, etc.? Answer:
Precipitation
357. What is the joint called where your hand is connected to your arm?
Answer: Wrist / Wrists
360. Where is a criminal kept as punishment? Answer: Prison / jail
375. What do we call the liquid which is in a car? Answer: Gasoline / petrol /
gas
376. In a recession, does economic activity increase or slow down? Answer:
Slow down
379. Which organ is the blood pumped from? Answer: heart
382. Who sits in the cockpit of an airplane? Answer: pilot
385. What is the synonym of 'destiny'? Answer: Fate / fortune
389. What century are we now in? Answer: twenty first
401. What does a sundial measure? Answer: time
405. What do we call people who work on ship or plane? Answer: Crew
413. What is the most important document you would have to show if you
would to hire a car? Answer: driver's license / driving license
426. What do we call a group of people who sing together? Answer: Choir /
chorus
427. What is the horizontal line that separates the globe into two halves?
Answer: Equator /ɪˈkweɪtər/
433. What do we call the machine that provides drinking water in an office?
Answer: Water cooler / water dispenser
446. Which color do we make by blending black and white? Answer: Grey
447. What do you need to submit for completing a degree in the university?
Answer: Dissertation / Thesis
462. What do we call a person who trains a team in a particular sport?
Answer: Coach
474. What do we call a vehicle equipped for carrying the injured or sick?
Answer: Ambulance
481. Which one is past tense: has gone, went or going? Answer: went
489. What fruit category includes orange, mandarin and lemon? Answer:
citrus
[Link] do we call a person undergoing treatments in hospital? Answer:
Patient
496. Where do passengers stand waiting for a train in the railway station?
Answer: Platform
502. What do we call a short piece of writing containing the main ideas in a
document? Answer: Abstract / summary
512. What is the ceremony called for marriage? Answer: Wedding
514. What do we call a person who pays rent to the landlord? Answer:
Lessee / tenant le si te nun
518. What is the process of choosing a person for a position by voting?
Answer: Election
528. What do we call the head of a court? Answer: Judge
534. What can bring astronauts to space? Answer: spacecraft
536. Which literary genre describes all details of a famous person's life?
Answer: Biography / autobiography
538. Some calendars begin the week on Sunday, what is the other day
which commonly starts a week? Answer: Monday
540. Where does a pilot sit in an airplane? Answer: Cockpit /ˈkɑːkpɪt/
541. What do we call a statement presented in court by a defendant or a
lawyer? Answer: Plea
544. What do we call the date that a piece of work must be finished by?
Answer: deadline / due date
545. What do you use to test the body temperature? Answer: thermometer
/θərˈmɑːmɪtər/
551. What is the portable breathing apparatus for divers? Answer:
Aqualung
561. What is the verb that describes traveling on boat? Answer: Cruise/
voyage
573. In addition to the A, E, what are the other three vowels? Answer: U / I /
O
587. How do we call that animals and plants preserved in the rocks?
Answer: Fossil
594. What is the word for a building or room where art exhibitions are
held? Answer: art gallery / art museum
603. What is the behavior when an animal changes its color to match the
environment for protection? Answer: Camouflage /ˈkæməflɑːʒ/ nguy trang
604. In the animal kingdom, is the purpose of camouflage to attract a
mate, to find food or to hide? Answer: hide
607. What do you call the dark shape your body make on the ground in the
sun? Answer: Shadow
626. What is the barrier that can prevent floods from damaging our home?
Answer: Dam
648. What do birds use to fly? Answer: Wings
649. What’s the color of the medal that a champion gets? Answer: Golden /
gold
657. What do we call a festival which is held every four years gathering
people together as a sporting event? Answer: the olympic games
662. What type of work is a sabbatical a lengthy time away from? Answer:
Teaching
667. What device do you use to measure your weight? Answer: scale /
weighing machine
679. What material are windows made of? Answer: glass
684. What is the antonym of 'entrance'? Answer: Exit
686. Who flies an airplane? Answer: Pilot
689. What is the conservation of non-renewable energy? Answer: Reuse /
recycling
692. How often does an annual event happen? Answer: Once a year
699. What natural resource is used by a carpenter? Answer: wood / timber
700. What subject involves the study of the Periodic Table? Answer:
Chemistry
702. What is the straight line between the center of a circle and any point
on its outer edge? Answer: Radius (ban kinh)
710. In a hospital, who is the person that can write prescriptions? Answer:
Doctor.
711. A business doesn't want to make a loss - what does it want to make?
Answer: profit / profits
712. What is the opposite to “predecessor”? Answer: successor
719. What is the antonym of vertical? Answer: horizontal
723. What includes everything in the world such as stars and planets?
Answer: Universe / cosmos
724. What do we call drawings or writing on a wall, especially in a public
place? Answer: Graffiti
734. If a driver drives the car, what does a pilot do to the plane? Answer:
Fly / flies
742. What do we call the people who move from one country to another
country, usually for work or a better life? Answer: Migrants
744. Which part of our body is related to the word "optical"? Answer: Eye
745. What do we call the line between a sunset and the sea? Answer: Sea-
sky-line / horizon
748. When we say someone is doing the B.A. in history or literature in the university, what does
B.A. stand for? Answer: Bachelor of arts
751. What are the people who study ancient bones or plants in rocks?
Answer: paleontologists / paleontologist / archaeologists / archaeologist
757. What is 'BA' for, such as history and literature? Answer: Bachelor of
arts
763. What do we call a car that needs to be charged? Answer: Electric car
765. What do we call the selling and transporting of goods to another
country? Answer: Export / exportation
766. In sport, what do we call the cloths that we wear and end above the
knee ? Answer: Shorts
767. What is the opposite direction of sunrise? Answer: West
768. What do humans and animals need to inhale for survival? Answer: Air /
oxygen
769. What do you call a word formed from the first letters of other words?
Answer: Acronym /ˈækrənɪm/
770. Which part of our body does a gastroscope look into? Answer:
Stomach
774. What is the room in which you keep things when you don't need them?
Answer: Storeroom
775. We call a person used to using the right hand a right-hander, and what
do we call a person if the left hand? Answer: Left-hander
777. If someone tells something funny to you, what is your reaction?
Answer: Laugh / laughing
779. What do we call a child who will soon be a teenager? Answer:
Preteen / tween
780. What kind of food that vegetarians do not eat? Answer: Meat
781. What do pedestrians move by? Answer: Foot / feet
782. What is the term used to describe a period of seven days? Answer:
Week
789. What do people usually use to cut food? Answer: Knife
792. What do we use to launch a space shuttle? Answer: Rocket / Booster
793. What do you call the people who work on boats? Answer: Sailors /
mariner
794. What do we call the subject that studies weather and temperature?
Answer: Meteorology / climatology
796. What do we call a baby cat? Answer: Kitten / kitty
797. What do we call a person's move to a more important job or rank in a
company? Answer: Promotion
799. What clothing do people wear, such as students or nurses, to show
that they belong to the same organizations? Answer: Uniform
803. What do we call a person who leaves college before finishing the
studies? Answer: Dropout
804. What do we call a political institution or body that is responsible for a
country? Answer: Governmen
806. What do we call someone who studies languages? Answer: Linguist
/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
809. Where are goods stored before sale? Answer: Warehouse / inventory /
stock