One more new partner... and one more quiz

Our students must have been very good - Santa Claus has got a fantastic present for us! :)

One more school decided to join us and participate in Meeting Blog Project, which is great news. Before the new brilliant students and their superb teacher will be introduced, we have a quiz for you. It was created by the new team. Well done!

Can you guess the name of their country? Please, leave your answer in Comments section. Good luck!

QUIZ

1. Our country is the largest in the world. Ural Mountains divide Eurasian continent - and our country - to Europe and Asia. The country is taking the area of 17.1 million square kilometers – it is like USA and Europe together and the country is 9 000,00 kilometers from east to west and 5000 from north to south.

2. The capital of our country is famous for its Red Square.
3. The second largest city is called the "Northern capital".
4. The differences are less noticeable among younger people who seem to have almost completely embraced the western lifestyle, but the generation of people born in the second half of the 20th century still has some peculiar mix of the old attitudes and the modern western lifestyle.
5. Our popular food is “borshch” and “pelmeny’’.
6. Our people are good-natured people with certain beliefs, which may seem strange at the first sight, but quite understandable if you look a bit closer.
7. Religion has long played an important role in the culture and lives of the people of our country. It has influenced government, created holidays and given people hope for better things during the most desperate times.

Welcome our new project partner! A new QUIZ for you

We are very happy and proud to announce our new project partner!

It's a wonderful, talented group of students from Portugal with their creative teacher, Ms Anabela Brígida. Their school is called Agrupamento Vertical Fernando Casimiro Pereira da Silva. It is located in Rio Maior, Portugal.

They have already started posting cool poems and commenting your work!

There is also a quiz for the Spanish, Greek, American and Polish students.

To get familiar with the country of our new partner school, find the answers to some questions about Portugal. You can answer all the questions or just a few.

Please, leave your answers in the comments section. Good luck! :)

The Portuguese students are kindly asked to comment and help if there are any problems.

1. What was the Portuguese currency before the adoption of the Euro?

2. What's the title of the Portuguese national anthem?

3. What's the Portuguese word for 'hello'?

4. What's the name of the typical Portuguese music?

5. What is the name of Portugal's capital city in Portuguese?

6. What was the name of the Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail round the southern tip of Africa which he named the Cape of Good Hope?

7. What was the name of Portugal's last king?

8. Who set up a school at Sagres, where he gathered the finest map-makers, astronomers and navigators of the age? Magellan and Vasco da Gama were among the great explorers who studied there.

9. What disaster happened on 1 November 1755 in Lisbon? About thirty thousand people were killed then.

10. How many people speak Portuguese all over the world?

11. In how many countries all over the world is Portuguese the official language?

12. How long is The Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, the longest bridge in Europe?

13. Where did the Virgin Mary appear to children in 1917 in Portugal? The town is now a major centre of pilgrimage.

14. What geometrical shape does the map of Portugal look like?

15. Watch the video about Portugal. Which tourist attractions do you like the best?

QUIZ TIME

Dear students,

We are very happy to announce our new partners.
Two schools have just decided to participate in Meeting Point Blog Project.

Welcome! We are very happy to have you here.

Now we would like our Spanish and Polish students to guess where our new partners come from.
One team come from Northern America and the other one from Europe.

• 1. Students from the United States would like you to guess the name of their state. They prepared a special quiz for you. Good luck! :)

Pepsi was invented and first served in 1898. We lead the nation in furniture, tobacco, brick, and textile production.
The state song is The Old North State. The state tree is the longleaf pine. We have 1,500 lakes of 10 acres or more in size and 37,000 miles of fresh water streams.

What is the name of their state? If you know the answer, please leave it in a comment to this post.

• 2. Now it's time to solve the mystery of our European partner :)

It is a parliamentary republic.
The flag is blue and white.
It is a popular holiday destination, famous for spectacular and picturesque views – for example six monasteries built on natural rock pillars.

You will see the name of this country many times while reading about the history of sport and theatre.
In the native language it is called Elláda.

What country is it? If you know the answer, please leave it in a comment to this post too.

We are looking forward to your guesses.

Cristina Mato

Jolanta Gajda
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29th October 2008. Congratulations to students whose answers were correct:

North Carolina
Greece

Thumbs up! Well done.