Sporting traditions in the UK 8 form

Question 1

Forty-three days before Easter Sunday is a special day for Christians, called Music Day.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Today they include highland knitting, contests in playing the bagpipes and “tossing the caber”.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Who present at the two-day football match held in Ashbourne in the Midlands every spring?

Accepted Answer

St John’s Ambulance1 and first-aid volunteers are always present there.

Question 4

What was used for pancakes?

Accepted Answer

People used eggs, milk, butter for pancakes.

Question 5

The average caber weighs 66 kilos and is usually about 8 metres long.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

When were pancake races?

Accepted Answer

They were on or near Shrove Tuesday.

Question 7

A woman has to wear a helmet.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

What is the Highland Games?

Accepted Answer

The Highland Games is a Championship in the Scottish Highlands, The Highland Games is a Championship held in September

Question 9

What is Lent?

Accepted Answer

Lent is a Christian fast (пост) which lasts forty days before Easter.

Question 10

Players have to throw a long and extremely heavy pine trunk as far as possible.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

People ought to eat eggs and milk during Lent

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

Who are the shopkeepers?

Accepted Answer

The shopkeepers have to cover their windows with wooden boards.

Question 13

The most famous pancake race takes place at London.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Who is the player who throws his wooden caber the furthest?

Accepted Answer

He isn't a winner.

Question 15

The winner gets to the finishing line first having thrown the pancake a pre-decided number of times.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The second name of Pancake day is Shrove Tuesday.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

What do participants have to do?

Accepted Answer

They run with a pancake in a frying pan and throw the pancake in the air.

Question 18

On Pancake Day people used to celebrate the third day before Easter when they could eat what they wanted.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

The Ashbourne street football game is one of many street football matches played out all over the UK.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Two teams consist of hundreds of players.

Accepted Answer

True

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