Webquest_2009

Welcome to the webquest!

Please read the following questions and give answers using the Internet. You have 40 minutes to do it.

Q.1. What is in the picture?

Q.2 Whose traditional dish is it?

Q.3 What is its origin?

Q.4 This great building was erected in the centre of London in the middle of the 19th century. It is not there any more. What building was it? Why was it built?

Q.5 J. D. Salinger’s //The Catcher in the Rye// has led to the murder of a famous British musician. Who was murdered and what is the person called who committed the murder to become famous? Q.6 Who is in the picture below?



Q.7 When did Elizabeth II visit Estonia?

Q.8 Near the Tower of London you can see HMS Belfast. What does HMS stand for?

Q.9 What is the oldest university in Britain? When was it founded?

Q.10 Who of the present British royal family was born on 10 March 1964? Where does he stand in the line of succession?

Q.11 Who is the man leading the United Kingdom right now? What political party does he belong to?

Q.12 What is the address of the Estonian embassy in the UK?

Q.13 What is the seat of the parliament?

Q.14 Where is the statue (street, town)? Q.15 Who is the British writer who became famous using a pen name? He suffered from stammer and was a good mathematician and had a post at Christ Church. Read the following extract and decide what book it is from. //Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants. `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'//

Q.16 What book has Edward F. Rochester as one of the main characters? Who is the author of the book?

Q.17 Who played the part of Mr Rochester in the latest BBC TV-version? How old is the actor right now? Which Bond-film did he play in?

Q.18 Who is the British athlete who won the silver medal at the olympics of 1996? He won it by jumping. Please specify the name of the jump. When did he win the olympic gold medal?

Q.19 What does the following sentence mean? //Hand over the bees.// It is in a slang once probably spoken by thieves, entertainers and traders in London. Its name comes from a word which means //eggs that are misshapen//. What is the slang called?