C1

Unit 1- C1

Jerry: How’s the quiz coming along. Daisy?

Daisy: Oh dear, Jerry, I haven’t even started it yet. Do you feel like helping me with it?

J: General knowledge, is it? Hmm. Um, how many questions do you need?

D: We only need about ten.

J: Well, shall we start with something easy, like who first stepped on the moon? Does everybody know it’s Neil Armstrong?

D: They might say Yuri Gagarin or the other American, Buzz Aldrin, mightn’t they?

J: Right. And for number 2, how about this - which country has the most TV sets?

D: Oh, that’s too easy, it’s the USA. Or maybe Japan.

J: Ha!

Got you! China’s got almost twice as many as the States.

D: Well, I never knew that! OK, now here’s one I’ve thought of - what’s the most expensive film ever made?

J: Hmm, no idea. Titanic?

Jurassic Park?

D: Gone with the Wind cost a lot to make, too,but actually it’s Titanic at 250 million dollars.

J: Wow! OK, and question 4 could be on great achievements - who was it who sailed across the Pacific on a raft, a tiny little boat made of wood - remember him?

D: Oh, now who was that? Um, Francis Chichester?

Scott of the Antarctic?

J: No, the Norwegian, Thor Heyerdahl.

D: Oh, good, this is coming on well. I know! We could ask how many hairs people have on their heads.

J: About a million, I should think.

D: Actually, it’s 100,000. And let’s have a sports question for number 6 - who was the youngest ever Wimbledon tennis champion?

J: Must be Boris Becker, or perhaps it was Michael Chang?

D: Wrong! Martina Hingis of Switzerland. She wasn’t even 16 when she won the women’s doubles.

I remember that.

J: Great, now we only need another four.