Chess Player Timur Gareyev Quiz

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

Next month, a chess player named Timur Gareyev will take on nearly 50 opponents at once. (1) ______. While his challengers will play the games as normal, Gareyev himself will be blindfolded. Even by world record standards, it sets a high bar for human performance. The 28-year-old already stands out in the rarefied world of blindfold chess. He has a fondness for bright clothes and unusual hairstyles, and (2) ______. He has already proved himself a strong chess player, too. (3) ______, Gareyev played 33 games in his head simultaneously. He won 29 and (4) ______. The skill has become his brand: he calls himself the Blindfold King.

• But that is not the hard part

• That is the not hard part though

• Making that part not hard

• Which makes that part not hard

(2) ______. He has already proved himself a strong chess player, too.

• getting his kicks from the adventure sport of BASE jumping

• to get his kicks from the adventure sport of BASE jumping

• he gets his kicks from the adventure sport of BASE jumping

• he has his kicks got from the adventure sport of BASE jumping

(3) ______, Gareyev played 33 games in his head simultaneously.

• During a 10-hour chess marathon in 2013

• At a 10-hour chess marathon of 2013

• In a 10-hour chess marathon throughout 2013

• On a 10-hour chess marathon in 2013

(4) ______.

• lose none

• losing none

• to lose

• lost none

(5) ______.

• its first results

• their first results

• his first results

• our first results

(6) ______ is the number of games they can keep active at once.

• of a few other individuals

• a few other individuals

• few other individuals

• a few other performances