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ELIMINATION ROUND
QUESTIONS
How many colours are there on the national flag of the United Kingdom?
Which three letters symbolize the urgent request for help?
What is the second most common language in the world?
What is the name of the electronic device that is sent into space and moves around the Earth or
another planet?
Which month has the letter T at the end?
What natural phenomenon is measured by the 'Richter scale'?
What is the square root of 144?
At Halloween, what saying is traditionally spoken by children when they visit houses and ask
for sweets?
What do we call a period of two weeks?
While British people use the word "autumn", American people use the word
is an instrument for finding direction, with a needle always pointing to the north.
What do we call the black and white bird that lives in the Antarctic?
Leap year takes place every years.
is the large soft piece of flesh in the mouth which you can move and use for speaking,
tasting,
Which country will host the 29th SEA Games?
What do you call a child whose parents are dead?
Which country has the same flag with Monaco ?
Which city is the most light polluted in the world?
What is the antonym of "inhale"?
What do we call the leader of the group who governs a town or a city?
Brunch is a combination of and
What does the letter A in A-bomb stands for?
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 are called " numbers".

ANSWERS
3 (red, white, blue)
SOS
Spanish
satellite
August
Earthquake
12
Trick or treat
(a) fortnight
fall
Compass
Penguin
4
tongue
Malaysia
Orphan
Indonesia
Hong Kong
exhale
mayor
Breakfast - lunch
Atomic
prime

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Medium Humans thigh and shin are connected by ....

(the) knee
Medium What are the translated words appearing on the screen in a foreign film?
subtitle
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I use my smart phone not only to communicate but also to entertain myself, like listening to
music, surfing social networks, and especially playing games. My favourite game is a sidescroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between rows of green pipes without
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coming into contact with them. It was invented by a Vietnamese developer. The game received
Flappy bird
a sudden rise in popularity in early 2014 but was later removed from Apple's App Store and
Google Play by its creator because he thought the game was addictive. What is the game I am
mentioning?
My favourite spare time activity is one of the oldest and most popular board games. It is
invented a long time ago in India. A game involves two players playing on a square board. The
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board is divided into 64 smaller squares, half of which is in light colour and half is in dark
Chess
colour, and one player must checkmate the other in order to win this game. Do you know what
board game I am talking about?
I really love swimming and sunbathing. My number one choice for holidays is visiting
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beautiful beaches in Vietnam. However, sometimes I get an itch and come out in a rash after
Jellyfish
swimming. This is caused by a transparent sea creature. Do you know what it is?
I am very passionate with Oriental cultures. There is a world of difference between Western
and Asian traditions and customs. For example, while Western people use solar calendar, Asian
people opt for lunar calendar. Asians even make up a zodiac comprising 12 animals
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Rabbit
representing 12 consecutive years. It starts with a mouse and ends with a pig. However, the
zodiacs are not all the same among Asian countries. What is the Chinese Zodiac's animal not
included in the Vietnamese Zodiac?
I am a botanist and focus on studying plants. I am fascinated with the way plants grow up,
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produce flowers and bear fruits. Every plant has one special part that grows into the earth to
Root
get water and food and holds the plant firm in the ground. Do you know what that part is?

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Since I was a child, I have always loved to become a computer scientist. The reason for this
decision is my idol. He made contributions to many fields such as mathematics or philosophy.
However, his greatest achievements were in the field of computer science. As a result, his
name is given to an award in this field. The award is often referred to as the Nobel Prize in
computer science. Do you know who I am talking about?
Here is a quick fact about icebergs. Do you know that only 10% of an iceberg is visible above
the water surface? Hence there is a common expression tip of the iceberg'. However, the 'tip of
the iceberg' is also related to the writing style of a famous writer, who left nothing but the bare
essentials in his works. He firmly believed that just like icebergs, words could hide much more
information than what is written on the pages. Thanks to this style, he was awarded the Nobel
Prize in 1954. Who is this famous writer?
I love playing cards. Card games are always diverse to me. There is bridge, poker, solitaire.
You can also do magic with cards. In a standard 52 card deck, there are 36 cards with a number
from 2 to 10 and 16 cards with pictures. They are ace, K, Q, and J, where K stands for King, Q
stands for Queen. Do you know which word the letter J stands for?
I always had a great passion for literature when I still was in high school. I particularly liked
studying about plays because in these classes, we usually had a chance to play roles. That was
a very interesting experience. I still remembered a saying of a character in a Shakespeare's
play: "To be or not to be, that's the question". Do you know who this character is?
I love travelling. So I spend a year after college just to travel around the world. Plus, as I study
oceanography, a study of oceans, in college, I enjoy visiting different beaches and islands and
especially gulfs, which are large areas of sea surrounded by land. The Gulf of Thailand is a
very large one with the surface area of over 300,000 square km. It is surrounded by three
neighboring countries. What are those countries?
I have a great passion for classical music. Apart from piano, I really love the beautiful and
emotional sound of string instruments. But there is one special kind of instrument that I am
extremely fascinated with because of its magical low notes. Though with the similar shape to
violins, its players usually have to sit down and hold it between his or her knees. Do you know
the instrument I am talking about?

Alan Turing

Ernest Hemingway

Jack

Hamlet

Thailand,
Cambodia and
Vietnam

Cello