1. What do you call a melon that’s orange on the inside?
C. other A "melon". (I can't make a cullinary distinction...)
2. If you want to know when someone is just about finished doing something, you could ask them “how much do you __________being finished?”
C. other_________________
While I imagine "like" is the answer that best fits grammatically, I don't understand this phrasing at all, and can suggest no easy word here. "Are you almost finished?" is how I
think I'd pose the question that I think is being asked.
3. If you spill spaghetti on your favorite sweater and you can’t wear it again, you might say your sweater is __________.
A. ruined
4. In the Bible, a man by the name of John the ____________, baptized Jesus.
A. Baptist
5. What do you push a baby in while you are out walking?
C. pram (NB. unless it's actually a "pushchair", perhaps for an older infant, equivalent to your answer "E. buggy")
6. If you were referring to something you can no longer do, is there another word or phrase you would use in this sentence: I __________do that.
A. can’t (unless emphasising, in which case "B. cannot", unless it's due to a change in ability in which case D: Other "Cannot
now", or similar.
7. What do you call the part of a plant or tree that grows underground?
B. root (like “boot”)
8. What do you call the place you go to buy your family’s weekly food supply?
C. supermarket
or F. other, just "Shop"
9 What do you call the thing that you place your groceries in as you walk around the grocery store?
E. other, either "(shopping) trolley" or "(shopping) basket".
10.After you are finished shopping, what does the courtesy clerk put your groceries in so that you can carry them home?
Nominally "n/a" (although the checkout operator themselves might ask if I need help packing, or on occasions some fund-raising cub-scouts/junior (soccer) football team might be standing at each till offering the service for loose change, such is the way that the UK system generally works). But "D. plastic bags" is what we'd call the bags we
do use. (Or some variant on the "Bags for life" theme, if I've remember to take one in with me.)
11. What do you call the vegetables used to make French fries?
A. potatoes (and I'd call the French Fries "chips", and what you probably think of as "chips" as "crisps")
(NB, "tatties" could be the more colloquial word, but I'm far too formal.)
12. What do you call the kitchen appliance that is used to keep things cold or frozen?
B. fridge (cold)
E. other_"freezer"_ (frozen... what doesn't fit into the small bit of the fridge intended for frozen stuff)
13. What day do people go to church?
A. Sunday (by tradition, though it varies between "any day" and "never" in this somewhat non-theistic society where churches and the like get used for secular reasons as well)
14. What do you call the crop that is raised by many farmers in Kentucky that is used in cigarettes?
A. tobacco
15. There are four major department stores in Kentucky Oaks Mall. They are Sears, Dilliard’s, Elder Berman and.
D. other_________ haven't a clue. Should I Google it?
16. What do you call the object a woman carries with her that contains her wallet, checkbook, keys, lipstick and other necessities?
C. hand bag (albeit as "handbag", when it isn't a "shoulderbag", possible spaced or hyphenated).
17. Homemade ketchup is made from this vegetable.
A. tomatoes (As is every other ketchup, home-made or not... But it sounds like I'm missing something, given I don't really like tomatoes and avoid ketchups, though am strangely Ok with the stuff on pizza bases and in chile-con-carnes and Oxtail Soup (tomato and beef)....)
18. Another name for a plug of Redman is a _________.
B. Chew (A guess, assuming that it's some form of chewing tobacco... I'm not familiar with "Redman", but a "plug of chewing tobacco" rings true, so...)
19. When you come home from a hard-days work and are exhausted, you might say that you are ___________.
A. tired
or C. other, various from the more formal "exhausted" to the possibly misinterpretable "puffed".
20. When you hit your finger with a hammer while hanging a picture and it hurts very much, you might say, “that hurt _____________.”
B. a lot
or D. other "owowowowowow!"
21. When you prepare hard boiled eggs by cutting them in half and adding mustard, mayonnaise, and other spices to the yolks, you call them _____________.
B. deviled eggs (I think.. I don't like hard-boiled eggs, either...)
22. If you put a quart of 10W-30 of Havoline in your car’s engine, you call this liquid ______.
A. oil (That's not a brand I know, for me it might have been Castrol or Duckhams but I know what you mean)
23. If you have trouble seeing, you might wear these to help correct your eyesight when you cannot wear contacts.
B. glasses (or, informally, "specs") ((And I've never fancied wearing contacts...))
24. What is a term for aunt, grandma, etc.?
A. relative
25. This is a small stream or brook that flows off the river through the woods _________.
(Off the river? Into, surely...
)
C. other, I'd stick with "stream" (mostly) or possibly "brook" or something like "beck", "gill", "drain", "dyke" or "goit", if I actually
knew that this was part of its name, with many more names possible depending on what part of the UK I was in...
26. A traditional Thanksgiving dinner consists of Turkey and _________.
B. stuffing (on the assumption it's equivalent to a Christmas turkey, over here)
27. Phrase meaning you are getting ready to do something.
A. going to
28. When you pay money to protect the things you have, this is called paying ___________.
B. in SUR ance (ah, at last something obviously phonetic).
29. Other than automobile, what is a general term for cars, trucks, and buses?
A. vehicle
B. ve-icle
C. other_________ Hmmm... not "vee hickle", but not "vee ickle". Halfway betwixt "vee-yickle" and "veer-ckle", perhaps?
30. What do you call a public servant who enforces the law?
B. police man (without the space (even as spoken), i.e.: "policeman")
31. What states border Kentucky other than Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia? (Urge them to say more than one.)
...no idea, but on pronunciation terms:
A. Missouri (ending like “tree”) (Shorter 'i' ending than "tree" would suggest, but this is the closest)
C. Illinois (ending like “boy”)
32. The baseball bats which are referred to as “sluggers” are associated with the northern Kentucky city of
...don't know, but I'm guessing (without looking it up) that the place cryptically being hinted at is...
A. Louisville (but pronounced "Louey-vill", if that's what you'd prefer)
33. What is the home of the arch and the Cardinals baseball team in southern Missouri?
A. St. Louis (Pron. "Sen{t} Louey", with a hardly voiced 't')
34. If you want to gather frogs to cook at home, you would say that you were going to go__________.
D. other "...mad!"
35. What do you call an ear of corn that humans eat.
A. corn on the cob (the entire ear)
B. sweet corn (the edible 'grains')
36. Imagine that you are hanging out with several friends and you want to go out with them later. To find out if they are busy you ask, “Hey, what are _________ doing later?”
A. you
or F. other "tha" (in the deeper local accent of my youth... also "...doing
after", without even expecting the response "after what?").
37. If someone asked “Is Jane going with us to the ball game,” you migh reply, “I _______so.”
D. suppose (or "s'pose")
38. Let’s say you want to offer someone a drink and they don’t want alcohol. If you decide to offer them something sweet and fizzy, you might say, “Do you want some________?”
C. pop (generic, that is. If "...something soft" that also explicitly includes 'still' pop, like cordial, but not normally water of either tap (a.k.a. "council pop") or bottled types)
39. When fried chicken leaves oily spots on a paper towel, you’d probably say the chicken is pretty __________.
A. greasy
40. What do you call the cast-iron cookware often used for frying food?
B. frying pan
41. If you were to invite friend(s) for a Sunday noon hot meal, you’d say, “Could you come over for ___________?”
A. dinner (pretty much the the default term for the midday meal, round these 'ere parts, regardless of day or heatedness... "tea" is the evening meal, "supper" a pre-prandial snack, "lunch"
is used, but less so than "dinner" is and perhaps with a more "sandwiches and salad" connotation. Don't get me started on "elevenses".
)
42. If you were to invite friend(s) for a Sunday evening hot meal, you’d say, “Could you come over for __________?”
D. other_"tea"_ (as explained, above)
43. What do you call the thing used for drying dishes?
F. tea towel. (Or "mum"
)
44. It’s customary before you eat to __________your hands.
B. wash (or, if you want me to go all phonetic on you, "wesh".
)
45. What do you call the long piece of furniture in the living room that seats at least three people?
E. other_"settee"_ (or "sofa" if wanting to sound posh, especially if it's leather, but usually settee)
46. What is the machine used for cleaning the carpet?
B. vacuum (cleaner) (sometimes, but mostly the 'de-branded' term...)
C. other_"hoover"_ (or, rarely and when talking specifically of the given brand of vacuum cleaner, "dyson", but that might be an attempt to be pedantic, or specifically not a "Henry Hoover [sic]" model, or whatavyer...)
47. What do you call the electrically operated device of colored lights that controls cars at an intersection?
C. traffic light
48. If you notice your car tank is nearly empty, you could pull into a __________ to refuel your car.
D. other_"petrol station"_ (over here "gas" is... well, something gaseous, not gasoline, and our "petroleum" aint just in jelly-form...
)
49. What do you call a four-lane road that you travel on between major cities?
E. other_______________
Tricky... "Motorway" is probably most like what you're looking for, for here in the UK (although usually six-lanes, three each way, plus a "hard shoulder" emergency lane on the inside wherever not impossible to cram in... can be as low as four lanes, and/or lack the hard-shoulder and/or the hard-shoulder is drafted in as a fully usable lane when signs show due to time-of-day or a (planned or unplanned) lane-reallocation is needed for some reason or other... and can be eight or
more total lanes, especially in areas where consecutive junctions' off-ramps ("sliproads", in our terminology) rather blend into each other and require more complex lane management systems to be used).
However, the term "dual-carriageway" is often used for a road without the full restrictions of a motorway (e.g. cycling is allowed, although not normally encouraged, as are slow-moving tractors/heavy-haulers/etc without special escort, and there's not a blanket ban on pedestrian access (only where indicated)), which is often two-lanes a direction with a central reservation (c.f. "median", yes?). Also dual-carriageways may have gaps for right turning (c.f. left-turning, from your perspective) in the central reservation, whereas Motorways
never have this (although gaps can be opened for contraflow purposes, during roadworks!) and use fly-overs (sliproads and bridges) roundabouts or a combination of these features to send/bring traffic across the route...
50. Were any of the questions completely irrelevant? In other words, did you find that you use none of the suggested answers and had no other term for the subject?
See above for all the unnecessary details.
51. Were there any answers you had to think about for more than a few seconds? Why?
Pretty much your US- (and Kentucky-?)specific questions. Again, as noted above.
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