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! :-)
4. The river Amazon os
longer than the river
Nile.
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False. The Amazon is
about 6.400 km long and
the Nile is about 6,670
km long.
5. Oxford University is
older than Cambridge
University press.
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TRUE. Oxford University was
founded in 1170 and
Cambridge 40 years later.
6. The English Alphabet is
shorter than the Arabic
alphabet.
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TRUE. There are 26 letters in the
English Alphabet and 28 in
the Arabic alphabet.
7. K2 is more dangerous to
Climb than Mount
Everest.
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TRUE. 40% OF CLIMBERS WHO
GET TO THE TOP OF K2 DIE,
BUT ONLY 9% OF CLIMBERS OF
EVEREST DIE.
8. A gigabyte is larger than
a megabyte.
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TRUE. A megabyte is
1,000, but a gigabyte
is 1,000megabytes.
9. The Sahara Desert is
drier than the Atacama
desert.
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False. Sahara Desert average
rainfall= 25mm; Atacama Desert
average rainfall= 0.1 mm.
10. New Zealand is further
south than Australia.
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TRUE. It´s 2,000 km
south- east of Australia.
11. The Pyramids in Egypt
are older than the
Parthenon in Greece.
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True. The Pyramids are about
500 years old and the
Parthenon is about 2,500
years old.
12. The First World War
was shorter than the
Second World War
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TRUE. The 1st WW lasted
4 years (1914-1918), the
2nd WW lasted 6 years
(1939-1945)
13. The mountains on earth
are higher than the
mountains on Mars.
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False. Olympus Mons on Mars is
25 km high; Everest is about 8
km high.
14. China is bigger than
Canada.
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FALSE. Canada is
10,000,000 square metres;
China is about 9,600,000
square metres.
15. $100
In 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.
16. It is better to do
exercise in the morning
than in the afternoon.
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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.
17. The Earth is hotter than
the moon.
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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.
18. The Mediterranean Sea
warmer than the Red
Sea.
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FALSE. Mediterranean
average temperature = 24-26;
Red Sea average = 26-30
degrees Celsius.
20. A peregrine falcon is
faster than a cheetah.
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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.
21. The brown grizzle bear
is larger than the polar
bear.
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False. The Polar bear is
larger than the Grizzle
Bear.
