Thursday 20 January 2011

EUROPEAN UNION COMPETITION (Second Leg)

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Hi everybody! Thanks for your answers! To celebrate that this is the SECOND competition of this SECOND round on this SECOND year of our Comenius Project , let's have TWO big questions, OK?
1.-EU
a)What was the ECU?
b)Which newspaper, published between 1990 and 1998, was billed as "Europe's first national newspaper"?
c)At present there are 5 recognised  countries which are candidates for EU membership: M..................,C.............. , I................. , M................  and T...................
2.-EUROPE
a)In which country is the negation in the sentence always DOUBLE (if not, the meaning may change)?
b)Who won the tennis DOUBLES title in Quatar in January 2011?
c)What was the name of this Empire based on a DUAL monarchy? A..........-H............
d)Who was "Les DEUX Suisse" written by? What nationality was he?
e)What was Eszett and when was it replaced by DOUBLE 'S'?
f)What kind of language did Michel de L'Epée create and use in his school?
I am sure you are thinking "A piece of cake"! Well, send me your answers to  iescampanar11@gmail.com
The finalists in the first leg will sum more points, the others may win a reader, which is for the first correct entry. Have a try! Cheerio!
SOLUTION:
1.-EU

a)What was the ECU? European Currency Unit (it was used in the EU before the euro as a measure)
b)Which newspaper, published between 1990 and 1998, was billed as "Europe's first national newspaper"? "The European"
c)At present there are 5 recognised countries which are candidates for EU membership: Macedonia,Croatia , Iceland , Montenegro and Turkey
2.-EUROPE
a)In which country is the negation in the sentence always DOUBLE (if not, the meaning may change)?
In Spanish, in Czech and in many other European languages.
b)Who won the tennis DOUBLES title in Quatar in January 2011?
Rafael Nadal and Marc López
c)What was the name of this Empire based on a DUAL monarchy? Austria-Hungary
d)Who was "Les DEUX Suisse" written by? What nationality was he? Louis Dumur. He was Swiss.
e)What was Eszett and when was it replaced by DOUBLE 'S'?It was the letter ß, a ligature in the German alphabet. In 1996.
f)What kind of language did Michel de L'Epée create and use in his school? The language of signs.

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