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Hundred Dollar Questions Who wants to win millions?

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This is an ESL GAME designed to practise comparatives and superlatives. In fact, it is a quiz which contains a lot of questions related to GENERAL CULTURE, SCIENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, etc. You can use it to play with your whole class. Yo can divide your class in two teams and play this wonderfull and engaging game! :-)

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Hundred Dollar Questions

Who wants to win millions?

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$100

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Geography History

Culture and

literatureNatureTecnology

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$100SPAIN IS SMALLER THAN FRANCE.

TRUE. SPAIN IS 505,000 SQUARE KILOMETRES AND FRANCE IS 544,000.

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The river Amazon os longer than the river Nile.

$200

False. The Amazon is about 6.400 km long and the Nile is about 6,670 km long.

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Oxford University is older than Cambridge University press.

$300

TRUE. Oxford University was founded in 1170 and Cambridge 40 years later.

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The English Alphabet is shorter than the Arabic alphabet.

$400

TRUE. There are 26 letters in the English Alphabet and 28 in the Arabic alphabet.

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K2 is more dangerous to Climb than Mount Everest.

$100

TRUE. 40% OF CLIMBERS WHO GET TO THE TOP OF K2 DIE, BUT ONLY 9% OF CLIMBERS OF EVEREST DIE.

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A gigabyte is larger than a megabyte.

$200

TRUE. A megabyte is 1,000, but a gigabyte is 1,000megabytes.

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The Sahara Desert is drier than the Atacama desert.

$300

False. Sahara Desert average rainfall= 25mm; Atacama Desert average rainfall= 0.1 mm.

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New Zealand is further south than Australia.

$400

TRUE. It´s 2,000 km south- east of Australia.

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The Pyramids in Egypt are older than

the Parthenon in Greece.

$100

True. The Pyramids are about 500 years old and the Parthenon is about 2,500 years old.

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The First World War was shorter than the Second World War

$200

TRUE. The 1st WW lasted 4 years (1914-1918), the 2nd WW lasted 6 years (1939-1945)

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The mountains on earth are higher than the mountains on Mars.

$300

False. Olympus Mons on Mars is 25 km high; Everest is about 8 km high.

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China is bigger than Canada.

$400

FALSE. Canada is 10,000,000 square metres; China is about 9,600,000 square metres.

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$100In the UK coffee is now more popular than tea.

False. On average, the British drink 165,000,000 cups of tea a day than and 70,000,000 cups of coffe.

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It is better to do exercise in the morning than in the afternoon.

$200

False. In the afternoon between 4 and 5 p.m. the body temperature is at its maximum, which means it is the perfect time to exercise.

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The Earth is hotter than the moon.

$300

FALSE. The average temperature of the moon is about 123 degrees Celsius during the day; the average temperature of the earth is 13-17 degrees Celsius.

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The Mediterranean Sea warmer than the Red Sea.

$400

FALSE. Mediterranean average temperature = 24-26; Red Sea average = 26-30 degrees Celsius.

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Kilimanjaro is higher than the Everest.

$100

False.

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A peregrine falcon is faster than a cheetah.

$200

TRUE. The falcon 389 km/h during its high speed dive hunting.The cheetah 112/ 120 km/h,The sailfish 96 km/ h in water.

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The brown grizzle bear is larger than the polar bear.

$300

False. The Polar bear is larger than the Grizzle Bear.

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New Zealand is further south than Australia.

$400

True.