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Answer — Exercise 3

01 - Grammar focus 1·Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

Question

Listen and check your answers. How many questions did you answer correctly?

Answer

  1. The first Mario Brothers computer game was in 1983, with Mario and his brother Luigi.
  2. The white player always starts in a game of chess.
  3. Marbles are usually made of glass.
  4. The game mahjong originated in China, probably about 2,500 years ago.
  5. Snakes and Ladders is a board game. When you land at the top of a snake, you go down it, and when you land at the bottom of a ladder, you go up it.
  6. Nobody really knows why there are 52 cards in a normal pack, but one idea is that there is one card for every week of the year.
  7. In a sudoku puzzle, you complete a grid with numbers, using the numbers 1-9 once only in each square, in each column and in each row.
  8. The pieces on a backgammon board are normally black and white.
  9. In the English version of Scrabble, the two highest-scoring letters are Q and Z, with 10 points each.
  10. There are 21 spots on a dice.
  11. The World Dominoes Championships take place once a year.
  12. An average game of Monopoly lasts for one and a half hours.
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