1. So many countries, so many customs: Great Britain, America, Russia

2. Intellectual Game.

3. The English language surrounds us like a sea, and like the waters of a deep sea it is full of mysteries.

5. Who wrote the novel “War and Peace”?

6. Leo Tolstoy

7. Who was the first president of the USA?

8. George Washington

9. Who created the best animated cartoons in the USA?

10. Walt Disney

11. Whose portrait can you see on British bank notes?

12. Elizabeth II

13. Whose figure is at the top of the monument in Trafalgar Square?

14. Admiral Nelson

15. SPORT

16. It is a mixture of skiing, skating, gymnastics and ballet

17. freestyle skiing

18. When were the Olympic Games held in Russia?

19. 1980

20. Finish the Olympic motto “Faster. Higher… “

21. stronger

22. This kind of sport started in Scotland and now is a game of aristocrats

23. golf

24. What is the American equivalent for the word “athletics”?

25. track-and-field

26. A musical style where the singer speaks or shouts the words

27. rap

28. The author of such ballets as “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty”

29. Pyotr Tchaikovsky

30. What kind of building is this?

31. The Bolshoi Theatre

33. A famous master of violins, a student of Amati

34. Antonio Stradivari

35. The most ancient musical instrument which existed 35-40 thousand years ago

36. flute

37. What is the centre of the cinema production in the USA?

39. What city is considered to be the centre of Russian culture?

40. St. Petersburg

42. She was a British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. Her main characters are Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple

43. Agatha Christie

45. The most famous British rock- group, first performing in Liverpool. They were broken up in 1970

46. The Beatles

47. What are the two oldest universities in Great Britain?

48. Oxford Cambridge