Презентация, доклад к уроку. Викторина для интеллектуалов (Интеллектуальное соревнование).

think of a short, easy-to-remember name for it.
He chose the first letter in his mother’s family name as the first and the last letter of the word. The rest of the word came by experimenting with other letters.
What word was invented?

a state within its borders.

He played in 813 football matches in the “Dinamo” team and representative team of the country. In the period of 1956 – 1968 he was number 1 in the list of the best football players of the country. In 1960 he got the “Golden Ball”, prize to the best footballer of Europe.
Who is this prominent footballer?

After the revolution he fled the country and settled in the USA. He is the inventor of television and is called the “father of television”. He got a lot of patents for inventions in the field of television and colour television. He got many awards and in 1977 was elected in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Who is he?

It was created in 1933 by Charles Darrow. Its task is to buy or change the maximum number of houses, hotels, railways and companies and destroy the competitors. All streets in the game have real names of the streets of Atlantic City. Company “Parker Brothers” possesses copyright to this game. Volume of sales since 1935 made $ 100 mln.

the first European to explore the Far East. He lived in the 13th – 14th centuries, and his book was the most famous travel book in history. For a long time it was the only source in Europe for information on the geography and life of the Far East. His book became the basis for some of the first accurate maps of Asia made in Europe. It helped to inspire an interest in the East in Christopher Columbus who tried to reach the Far East by sailing west from Europe.

puma, totem, kayak, wigwam, igloo, sequoia, squash, moose

Earth in August 1961, four months after Yuri Gagarin’s flight. He was out of the Earth’s atmosphere for more than 25 hours and circled the Earth 17 times. This person died in September, 2000 at the age of 65.

Greek mythology. The nymph Echo wished that he would fall in love with himself. While gazing at his own reflection he drowned. After his death the gods changed his body into the beautiful flower.
What is the name of this flower?

men while her husband was absent for ten years. Her name has become synonym of a faithful wife.
What was her name?

Hold off – держать поодаль, удерживать

to English from the Middle East. It is used for a store or a marketplace where many kinds of goods are sold.

water, drill (сверло, дрель) and many other devices. However, he thought little about them and even did not leave written records of them. He preferred to be remembered for his great work in mathematics, or for his founding of the science of hydrostatics…

the quantity of water displaced by a body will equal in bulk (масса, объем) the bulk of the body.
What is the name of this person?

Bolivia. Its cultivation started about 2500 BC. It is rich in vitamin C, iron, protein, and, contrary to popular belief, does not contain very many calories. This vegetable used to be illegal in various European countries for medical reasons…

soon became staple (основной) food and contributed to the increase in population in Europe. When in 1840s the crop failed in Ireland, 2.5 mln Irish died or emigrated.
What is the name of this vegetable?

the salt content of this lake is about 25%. So when you swim in it you can’t sink. There is no fish in this lake, only bacteria. The lake has no rivers flowing out of it, only the river Jordan flows into it. It is the lowest lake in the world, being four hundred meters below the sea level.

great riches. In the 16th century there was a story about an Indian chieftain who lived in the land which is now called Columbia, was coated with gold dust during festivals and thought so little of it that he washed it off in a lake. Explorers from many European countries tried to find this land but could not.