Что за дела, братцы?

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Куда катится Канада?

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The average score is: 2490 points

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1. Impotent: Powerless (Medium)
2. Amenities: Comforts (Easier)
3. Aloof: Distant (Easier)
4. Cathartic: Cleansing (Medium)
5. Plethora: Abundance (Harder)
6. Adamantine: Unyielding (Hardest)
7. Denizen: Resident (Harder)
8. Analyze: Study (Easier)
9. Austerity: Severity (Medium)
10. Diatribe: Rant (Harder)

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Final Score: 3740 Points!

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1. Magnanimous: Generous (Harder)
2. Sultry: Hot (Easier)
3. Rue: Regret (Medium)
4. Nescience: Ignorance (Hardest)
5. Lugubrious: Sorrowful (Harder)
6. Succumb: Die (Easier)
7. Malleable: Flexible (Harder)
8. Ruminate: Think (Medium)
9. Suffice: Satisfy (Easier)
10. Ruse: Trick (Medium)

Quizz

Final Score: 3300 Points!

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The average score is: 2490 points

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1. Abjure: Reject (Hardest)
2. Tutelage: Instruction (Harder)
3. Addendum: Supplement (Easier)
4. Adequate: Enough (Easier)
5. Nebulous: Unclear (Medium)
6. Fallacy: Myth (Medium)
7. Precedence: Priority (Medium) Your Answer: Advantage    Proletel!
8. Sublime: Superb (Harder)
9. Acquaintance: Familiarity (Easier)
10. Edify: Educate (Harder)

Another sort of quizz. Oll Korrekt.

True or False?

 

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1. 1. Sandwich, the food item, is named after a person.
   TRUE (Medium)
   Though England's Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792) wasn't the first to eat meat between two slices of bread, his fondness for it generated its famous name.
2. 2. Chocolate can be lethal to dogs.
   TRUE (Medium)
   Chocolate contains the alkaloid stimulants caffeine and theobromine, the latter being highly toxic to dogs.
3. 3. A monk named Dom Perignon invented Champagne.
   FALSE (Harder)
   Contrary to the legend, the famed Benedictine monk didn't invent champagne but his rules for winemaking (1718) helped make it a premier wine of France.
4. 4. Brazil has won more World Cup (soccer) championships than any other country.
   TRUE (Easier)
   Brazil has won five; Italy (4); Germany (3); Argentina and Uruguay (2); England, France, and Spain (1).
5. 5. England's King Henry VIII had all of his six wives killed.
   FALSE (Easier)
   He ordered the death (beheading) of two of the six, the second (Anne Boleyn) and the fifth (Catherine Howard).
6. 6. The Sherpas of northern Finland are famous for their polar expeditions.
   FALSE (Easier)
   Sherpas are the mountain people of Nepal, prized as expert guides on climbs of Mt. Everest.
7. 7. Triumph of the Will, by pioneering filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, helped expose the horrors of the Holocaust.
   FALSE (Harder)
   Her landmark film traced the dramatic rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, which used her film as propaganda.
8. 8. The hottest part of Earth (its core) is solid.
   TRUE (Hardest)
   The core's high pressure drives up the melting point beyond the core's temperature and so the core's metals cannot melt.
9. 9. Fencing is one of the sports of the modern pentathlon.
   TRUE (Harder)
   The five events include shooting, fencing, horseback riding, swimming, and cross-country running.
10. 10. In the battle between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick, the whale wins.
    TRUE (Medium)
    In Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851), Ahab gets caught up in his own harpoon line and gets dragged into the sea by the whale.