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1. If you have an appointment on Wednesday, and today is Thursday, you will have the appointment
'yesterday' or 'tomorrow'?
Answer: Yesterday (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1731) (Audio Available)
2. What do we call the clothing that covers the hand with individual sections for each finger?
Answer: Glove (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1689) (Audio Available)
5. Which one do you spend longer time in, eating, drinking or sleep?
Answer: Sleep (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1686) (Audio Available)
10. Points:
Answer: (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1681) (Incomplete)
11. What is the other form of water other than gas and solid?
Answer: Liquid / fluid (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1679) (Audio Available)
12. Points:
Answer: (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1677) (Incomplete)
13. What do we call an amount of money that is taken off the usual cost of something?
Answer: Discount / reduction (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1676) (Audio Available)
14. What is the generic term for gold, silver and copper?
Answer: Metal (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1675) (Audio Available)
Answer: North America (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1673) (Audio Available)
22. What is the famous canal linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Suez (APEUni Website / App ASQ #305) (Audio Available)
23. What is the generic term for a person who once had the same title as you have now?
Answer: Predecessor (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1664) (Audio Available)
26. If a driver drives the car, what does a pilot do to the plane?
Answer: Fly / flies (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1654) (Audio Available)
29. What is the straight line between the center of a circle and any point on its outer edge?
Answer: Radius (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1649) (Audio Available)
30. What do we call the weather conditions like rain, hail, etc.?
Answer: Precipitation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1646) (Audio Available)
33. What do we call a vehicle equipped for carrying the injured or sick?
Answer: Ambulance (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1530) (Audio Available)
37. What do we call the industry which involves designing, building and flying of aircrafts?
Answer: Aviation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1502) (Audio Available)
38. What do you call the medicine that is used against headache?
Answer: Pain killer / painkiller (APEUni Website / App ASQ #363) (Audio Available)
44. What do we call the people who move from one country to another country, usually for work or a
better life?
Answer: Migrants (APEUni Website / App ASQ #1192) (Audio Available)
46. What do we call the line between a sunset and the sea?
Answer: Sea-sky-line / horizon (APEUni Website / App ASQ #90) (Audio Available)
48. When we say someone is doing the B.A. in history or literature in the university, what does B.A. stand
for?
Answer: Bachelor of arts (APEUni Website / App ASQ #986) (Audio Available)
49. When you bake a cake, what do you put the cake into?
Answer: Oven (APEUni Website / App ASQ #980) (Audio Available)
50. What is the barrier that can prevent floods from damaging our home?
Answer: Dam (APEUni Website / App ASQ #979) (Audio Available)
52. What includes everything in the world such as stars and planets?
Answer: Universe / cosmos (APEUni Website / App ASQ #977) (Audio Available)
56. What do we call a person who leaves college before finishing the studies?
Answer: Dropout (APEUni Website / App ASQ #952) (Audio Available)
58. What do we call a political institution or body that is responsible for a country?
Answer: Government (APEUni Website / App ASQ #949) (Audio Available)
60. What do we call a short piece of writing containing the main ideas in a document?
Answer: Abstract / summary (APEUni Website / App ASQ #923) (Audio Available)
63. What is the room in which you keep things when you don't need them?
Answer: Storeroom (APEUni Website / App ASQ #904) (Audio Available)
68. Where do passengers stand waiting for a train in the railway station?
Answer: Platform (APEUni Website / App ASQ #229) (Audio Available)
74. What do we use to get to the third floor when the elevator is broken?
Answer: Stairs / stairway (APEUni Website / App ASQ #852) (Audio Available)
78. In winter, what activities do people usually do on snow mountains by standing on long, thin boards?
Answer: skiing (APEUni Website / App ASQ #831) (Audio Available)
80. What instrument would you use when you want to weigh something up?
Answer: scale (APEUni Website / App ASQ #829) (Audio Available)
81. What is the storyline or the series of scenes of novels, movies, short stories or plays?
Answer: plot (APEUni Website / App ASQ #828) (Audio Available)
84. We call numbers like one, three, five odd numbers, then what do we call numbers like two, four, six?
Answer: even (APEUni Website / App ASQ #816) (Audio Available)
Answer: insurance agents / insurance brokers (APEUni Website / App ASQ #812) (Audio Available)
89. What do we call the selling and transporting of goods to another country?
Answer: export / exportation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #778) (Audio Available)
91. In sport, what do we call the cloths that we wear and end above the knee?
Answer: Shorts (APEUni Website / App ASQ #776) (Audio Available)
95. Points:
Answer: (APEUni Website / App ASQ #754) (Incomplete)
96. Points: What do we call a long narrow piece of land almost completely surrounded by water?
Answer: peninsula (APEUni Website / App ASQ #746) (Incomplete)
97. What do you call a statue or a building that is dedicated in memory of someone?
Answer: Monument / memorial (APEUni Website / App ASQ #740) (Audio Available)
99. Points: There are three eggs, what is the location of the special egg?
Answer: on the right (there is a picture including three eggs: the left two have eggshells while the right
one does not (APEUni Website / App ASQ #735) (Incomplete)
102. What is the heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine?
Answer: headline (APEUni Website / App ASQ #731) (Audio Available)
104. What do you call the diagram which includes X-axis and Y-axis?
Answer: coordinate system (APEUni Website / App ASQ #728) (Audio Available)
112. What do we call the treatment in which people use needles to ease others' pain?
Answer: acupuncture (APEUni Website / App ASQ #717) (Audio Available)
113. If a building is one thousand meters high, from where do we measure the height?
Answer: sea level (APEUni Website / App ASQ #228) (Audio Available)
119. What do you call a word formed from the first letters of other words?
121. What do we call a machine which carries people from one floor to another in a high building?
Answer: lift / lyft / elevator (APEUni Website / App ASQ #251) (Audio Available)
124. What is the boat that carries people from one side of a river to the other?
Answer: ferry (APEUni Website / App ASQ #692) (Audio Available)
125. What do you call the buildings of a university or college and the land around them?
Answer: campus (APEUni Website / App ASQ #689) (Audio Available)
129. What clothing do people wear, such as students or nurses, to show that they belong to the same
organizations?
Answer: uniform (APEUni Website / App ASQ #679) (Audio Available)
130. What do we call the subject that studies weather and temperature?
Answer: meteorology / climatology (APEUni Website / App ASQ #669) (Audio Available)
136. When trains or cars need to go through a mountain, where do they enter the mountain?
139. What do we call a person's move to a more important job or rank in a company?
Answer: promotion (APEUni Website / App ASQ #603) (Audio Available)
140. Which one in the four seasons has the lowest temperature?
Answer: winter (APEUni Website / App ASQ #602) (Audio Available)
142. Whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures?
Answer: carpenter (APEUni Website / App ASQ #587) (Audio Available)
144. Jack is having a presentation on Wednesday. Today is Tuesday. When will Jack have his speech,
today, tomorrow or next week?
Answer: tomorrow (APEUni Website / App ASQ #580) (Audio Available)
153. What thing do postgraduate students have that undergraduate students don’t?
Answer: bachelor degree (APEUni Website / App ASQ #563) (Audio Available)
155. What is the process where the color becomes lighter and lighter when exposed to sunlight for a
long time?
Answer: fade (APEUni Website / App ASQ #559) (Audio Available)
159. What is a word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same
language?
Answer: synonym (APEUni Website / App ASQ #364) (Audio Available)
160. What do we call the pen that receive its ink from its reservoir?
Answer: fountain pen (APEUni Website / App ASQ #552) (Audio Available)
161. Apart from coffee and hot chocolate, what beverages also contain caffeine?
Answer: Tea / coke / cocoa (APEUni Website / App ASQ #547) (Audio Available)
162. What is the musical instrument which has both pedals and strings?
Answer: harp / piano (APEUni Website / App ASQ #546) (Audio Available)
165. What do you throw underwater to keep ships staying on rivers or oceans without drifting away?
Answer: anchor (APEUni Website / App ASQ #542) (Audio Available)
166. How do you call the movements that the babies move by using hands and legs?
Answer: Crawling / crawl (APEUni Website / App ASQ #541) (Audio Available)
170. What instrument would scientists use to examine very small life forms?
Answer: microscope (APEUni Website / App ASQ #532) (Audio Available)
173. What do we call the person who plays musical instruments as a job?
Answer: musician (APEUni Website / App ASQ #527) (Audio Available)
178. Tomorrow’s lecture has been cancelled. If today is Tuesday, then on which day is the lecture
cancelled?
Answer: wednesday (APEUni Website / App ASQ #512) (Audio Available)
180. How do you call the doctor who treats sick animals?
Answer: vet / veterinarian (APEUni Website / App ASQ #508) (Audio Available)
181. What do we call the legal document that states how people's property should be allocated after their
deaths?
Answer: testament / will (APEUni Website / App ASQ #505) (Audio Available)
183. What do you call the government where the power is concentrated in the hands of one person?
Answer: autocracy / dictatorship (APEUni Website / App ASQ #503) (Audio Available)
184. When you have the PRIMARY, the SECONDARY, what do you have next?
Answer: tertiary (APEUni Website / App ASQ #497) (Audio Available)
185. What is the place you share bedroom with your classmates?
Answer: dormitory (APEUni Website / App ASQ #494) (Audio Available)
187. What do you need to submit for completing a degree in the university?
Answer: dissertation / thesis (APEUni Website / App ASQ #234) (Audio Available)
188. When a person’s blood alcohol level is higher than the standard range, what activity can’t the
person do?
Answer: driving (APEUni Website / App ASQ #490) (Audio Available)
189. How do we call the car that uses two types of fuels?
Answer: hybrid (APEUni Website / App ASQ #298) (Audio Available)
190. If there are 8 black balls and 1 white ball, and I randomly pick one, which color is mostly likely to be
picked?
Answer: black (APEUni Website / App ASQ #489) (Audio Available)
196. What do we call the northernmost and southernmost parts of the earth?
Answer: Pole / poles (APEUni Website / App ASQ #482) (Audio Available)
198. How do you call the two siblings born by a mother at the same time?
Answer: twins (APEUni Website / App ASQ #291) (Audio Available)
199. If you want to read tragedies or comedies, what kind of book do you read?
Answer: fiction books / novels (APEUni Website / App ASQ #477) (Audio Available)
201. What do you call the computer you can carry with you?
Answer: laptop (APEUni Website / App ASQ #471) (Audio Available)
202. How do we call that animals and plants preserved in the rocks?
Answer: fossil (APEUni Website / App ASQ #469) (Audio Available)
204. How do you describe the money that citizens must contribute to the government for public use?
Answer: tax / taxes (APEUni Website / App ASQ #452) (Audio Available)
205. How would you describe an animal that no longer exist on the earth?
Answer: extinct (APEUni Website / App ASQ #454) (Audio Available)
207. What are the people who study history and historical evidence?
Answer: historian (APEUni Website / App ASQ #649) (Audio Available)
208. What is the force that happens between the relative motion when objects are rubbed against each
other?
Answer: friction (APEUni Website / App ASQ #620) (Audio Available)
212. In mathematics and arithmetic, there are addition, multiplication, division. What's the other one?
Answer: subtraction (APEUni Website / App ASQ #462) (Audio Available)
213. Which literary genre describes all details of a famous person's life?
Answer: Biography / autobiography (APEUni Website / App ASQ #457) (Audio Available)
215. What are the people who study ancient bones or plants in rocks?
Answer: paleontologists / paleontologist / archaeologists / archaeologist (APEUni Website / App ASQ
#646) (Audio Available)
217. If you want to find the map of U.S., what type of book should you use?
Answer: atlas (APEUni Website / App ASQ #451) (Audio Available)
219. What word can describe both a color and the environment?
Answer: Green (APEUni Website / App ASQ #442) (Audio Available)
222. Which continent do China, India, Korea and Japan locate in?
Answer: Asia (APEUni Website / App ASQ #440) (Audio Available)
223. Before airplanes were invented, how did people travel from America to Europe?
Answer: by ship (APEUni Website / App ASQ #438) (Audio Available)
227. If you invented something, what can you apply for to prevent others copying your invention?
Answer: patent (APEUni Website / App ASQ #434) (Explanation) (Audio Available)
228. How do you describe the type of magazine that is published four times a year?
Answer: quarterly (APEUni Website / App ASQ #289) (Audio Available)
232. Oral English is different from academic English. Which is the best term to describe academic
English: tolerant or rigorous?
Answer: rigorous (APEUni Website / App ASQ #424) (Audio Available)
238. How many hemispheres does the equator divide earth into?
Answer: Two (APEUni Website / App ASQ #404) (Audio Available)
242. How do you call a student that has finished his first year?
Answer: sophomore (APEUni Website / App ASQ #145) (Audio Available)
245. What do we call a festival which is held every four years gathering people together as a sporting
event?
Answer: the olympic games (APEUni Website / App ASQ #396) (Audio Available)
246. What is the feature that guitars and violins have in common?
Answer: string / strings (APEUni Website / App ASQ #393) (Audio Available)
248. What type of shape has four right corners, four lines that are equal in length?
Answer: square (APEUni Website / App ASQ #384) (Audio Available)
253. If a couple have a pair of children, how many children do they have?
Answer: two (APEUni Website / App ASQ #378) (Audio Available)
259. What is the name of the student who has not completed his course?
Answer: undergraduate student (APEUni Website / App ASQ #350) (Audio Available)
261. In the library, which books we are not allowed to bring them out with ourselves?
Answer: closed reserve book / closed reserve books (APEUni Website / App ASQ #347)
(Audio Available)
262. What kind of dictionary provides synonyms, antonyms and related words?
Answer: thesaurus (APEUni Website / App ASQ #344) (Audio Available)
266. How do you call the pointing device that is connected to the computer?
Answer: mouse (APEUni Website / App ASQ #330) (Audio Available)
267. What is the thing you touch when you play the guitar?
Answer: strings / string (APEUni Website / App ASQ #329) (Audio Available)
269. What do we call the animals with white ivory and long trunk?
Answer: elephant / elephants (APEUni Website / App ASQ #325) (Audio Available)
274. If a button has come off a shirt, what would someone most likely use to put it back on?
Answer: needle / thread (APEUni Website / App ASQ #300) (Audio Available)
279. Some calendars begin the week on Sunday, what is the other day which commonly starts a week?
Answer: monday (APEUni Website / App ASQ #270) (Audio Available)
280. What do we call the piece of paper that proves you have bought an item?
Answer: Receipt (APEUni Website / App ASQ #304) (Audio Available)
282. How many years does it typically take to finish undergraduate study?
Answer: three years / four years (APEUni Website / App ASQ #267) (Audio Available)
284. What is the name of the field of study that studies the human mind and behavior?
Answer: psychology (APEUni Website / App ASQ #262) (Audio Available)
285. Which of the following is not a means of transportation: by plane, by public transportation or car
model?
Answer: car model (APEUni Website / App ASQ #259) (Audio Available)
287. A manufacturing process releases poisonous gases. What is the most important safety measure for
workers at this plant⼀ensuring good ventilation, or appropriate footwear?
Answer: Ensuring good ventilation (APEUni Website / App ASQ #233) (Audio Available)
288. What is the joint called where your hand is connected to your arm?
Answer: wrist / wrists (APEUni Website / App ASQ #212) (Audio Available)
289. What is the behavior when an animal changes its color to match the environment for protection?
Answer: Camouflage (APEUni Website / App ASQ #226) (Audio Available)
291. Where would you expect to find equipment like microscopes, a Bunsen burner, beaker and petri
dish?
Answer: Laboratory / lab (APEUni Website / App ASQ #243) (Audio Available)
292. What is the most important document you would have to show if you would to hire a car?
Answer: driver's license / driving license (APEUni Website / App ASQ #205) (Audio Available)
293. What do you call a specialist who repairs leaking water pipes?
Answer: plumber (APEUni Website / App ASQ #204) (Audio Available)
295. What we call it when the moon completely blocks out the light from the sun?
Answer: a solar eclipse / an eclipse (APEUni Website / App ASQ #198) (Audio Available)
297. How would you describe an economy that is largely based on farming?
Answer: agricultural / rural (APEUni Website / App ASQ #178) (Audio Available)
298. What is the job of someone that looks after your teeth and gums?
Answer: dentist / surgeon dentist (APEUni Website / App ASQ #171) (Audio Available)
299. What plan shows how much money is available and how it will be spent?
Answer: budget (APEUni Website / App ASQ #168) (Audio Available)
300. What do you call the number of people living in a specific area?
Answer: population (APEUni Website / App ASQ #165) (Audio Available)
301. What is it called when two or more people are speaking to each other?
Answer: conversation / chat (APEUni Website / App ASQ #163) (Audio Available)
303. What kind of book is written by a person about their own life?
Answer: autobiography (APEUni Website / App ASQ #152) (Audio Available)
304. What key mineral makes sea water different from fresh water?
Answer: Salt (APEUni Website / App ASQ #235) (Audio Available)
308. What do we call the things of 88 keys covered by colors white and black?
Answer: Pianos / piano (APEUni Website / App ASQ #322) (Audio Available)
309. On what geographical location would someone be living if their country is surrounded by water on all
sides?
Answer: Island (APEUni Website / App ASQ #191) (Audio Available)
310. Who would you consult to treat a fear of crowded places, a philosopher or a psychologist?
Answer: psychologist (APEUni Website / App ASQ #140) (Audio Available)
312. In the animal kingdom, is the purpose of camouflage to attract a mate, to find food or to hide?
Answer: hide (APEUni Website / App ASQ #131) (Audio Available)
313. What special document do most people need to carry when they travel between countries?
Answer: passport (APEUni Website / App ASQ #130) (Audio Available)
314. What do you call the very long essay that students have to write for a doctoral degree?
Answer: Thesis / dissertation / discourse / paper (APEUni Website / App ASQ #141) (Audio Available)
315. What kind of equipment is used to protect motorbike riders' brains from injury?
Answer: helmet (APEUni Website / App ASQ #89) (Audio Available)
318. If something such as fabric or medicine is artificially made, not natural, what do we say it is?
Answer: Synthetic / artificial (APEUni Website / App ASQ #28) (Audio Available)
319. What do you call the alphabetical list at the end of a textbook that tells you where to find specific
information?
Answer: index / reference (APEUni Website / App ASQ #25) (Audio Available)
320. What is the word for a building or room where art exhibitions are held?
Answer: art gallery / art museum (APEUni Website / App ASQ #14) (Audio Available)
321. At what ceremony do students receive their degree or diploma at the end of their period of study?
Answer: graduation / commencement (APEUni Website / App ASQ #8) (Audio Available)
322. A business doesn't want to make a loss - what does it want to make?
Answer: Profit / profits (APEUni Website / App ASQ #107) (Audio Available)
327. If telescopes are used to locate distant objects, what instrument is employed to magnify minuscule
objects?
Answer: Microscope / microscopes (APEUni Website / App ASQ #111) (Audio Available)
328. Despite all the advances in equality between the sexes, would more men or women play
professional football?
Answer: Men (APEUni Website / App ASQ #120) (Audio Available)
332. What do we call the organs in our chest that we use to breathe?
Answer: Lungs / lung (APEUni Website / App ASQ #41) (Audio Available)