Basic Grammar Quiz

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, in Massachusetts, has the world's _______ name for a lake.

• longer

• the longest

• longest

• longer than

Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake, curves for nearly 400 miles through south-eastern Siberia, north of the Mongolian ______.

• boader

• border

• broader

• aboard

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. We think we'll just ______ with Bangkok! The city holds the world record for the longest name of a place.

• used to

• post

• stick

• attach

3 days in Bangkok is just the right amount of time to explore Thailand's capital before moving _____ see the rest of the country.

• into

• up for

• on to

• down and

Not only can cobras inject venom through a painful bite, they can also ____ their toxins a distance of two or three meters.

• spin

• sprint

• spit

• split

Saturn's rings are made of tiny pieces of rock and ice. It is not possible to stand or walk on Saturn's rings as these pieces ________.

• are continuous

• are not continued

• is not continuous

• are not continuous

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015.

Which statement is incorrect?

• Pluto has more than one moon.

• Pluto has never been explored.

• NASA was the one who sent the spacecraft to Pluto.

• Pluto's size is relatively small.

If all the people around the world had a mind like yours, we ______ fighting and no wars.

• would be

• would have no

• wouldn't have been

• won't be

Michael Learns to Rock (also known as MLTR) is _____ Danish soft rock and pop rock band formed in 1988.

• a

• an

• the

• part

_____ being Danish, the band performs songs in English.

• Due to

• Despite

• Although

• After