Fact or bluff game for English grad.pptx

Fact or bluff game

1. Bluff Game CHINESE NEW YEAR EDITION

2. Happy New Year! XIN NIAN KUAI LE

3. Are you ready?

4. Dragon dancing is performed during Chinese New Year to ward off evil spirits with loud noises and exaggerated dance movements. Fact Bluff

5. Dragon dancing is performed during Chinese New Year to ward off evil spirits with loud noises and exaggerated dance movements. Fact To scare away evil spirits, a dragon dance is performed on the streets with matching loud noises and exaggerated dance movements.

6. Chinese New Year is celebrated on the same day every year by Chinese people from around the world. Fact Bluff

7. Chinese New Year is celebrated on the same day every year by Chinese people from around the world. Bluff Chinese New Year falls on a different day each year, as determined by the Chinese Lunar calendar.

8. Celebration typically lasts for another fifteen days to welcome the next festival, the Lantern Festival. Fact Bluff

9. Fact Celebration typically lasts for another fifteen days to welcome the next festival, the Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year celebrations typically last for another fifteen days, culminating in the Lantern Festival.

10. During New Year, it is customary for families to clean and sweep their homes and the surrounding environment. Fact Bluff

11. During New Year, it is customary for families to clean and sweep their homes and the surrounding environment. Bluff Sweeping up and taking out the garbage symbolize removing the good luck from the house.

12. Lions were never part of the Chinese culture and tradition, not until they were introduced by Persians and Central Asians. Fact Bluff

13. Fact Lions were never part of the Chinese culture and tradition, not until they were introduced by Persians and Central Asians. Lions first appeared in Chinese culture when trade between Asians and Europeans occurred through the Silk Road.

14. A lion’s roar can be heard up to five miles away. Fact BLUFF

15. Fact A lion’s roar can be heard up to 5 miles ( 8km) away. A lion uses its roar as a sign of strength and dominance over its territory.

16. Cheetahs can’t roar. They can only meow like a house cat. Fact BLUFF

17. Fact A cheetah cannot roar because it has only one-piece hyoid bone. It can purr though, like other cats.

18. Incredible hulk was originally supposed to be red. Fact BLUFF

19. BLUFF Stan Lee, the man who created the Incredible Hulk, originally envisioned a gray-skinned hulk.

20. Ketchup was once sold as medicine. Fact BLUFF

21. Fact The condiment was prescribed and sold to people suffering with indigestion back in 1834.

22. The Great Wall of China is longer than the distance between London and Beijing Fact BLUFF

23. Fact London to Beijing is only 5080 miles (8,136km) while the Great Wall of China is 13,170.70 miles (21,196.18km)

24. Alaska is the biggest American state in square miles. Fact BLUFF

25. Fact It spans a total area of 665,384 square miles.

26. Pizza was invented in Rome, Italy. Fact BLUFF

27. bluff It was invented in Nayples , Italy

28. The Olympics are held every five years. Fact BLUFF

29. bluff They are held every four years.

30. The letter “A” is the most commonly used letter in the English language. Fact BLUFF

31. bluff It’s actually “E”. E’s frequency is likely because it appears in the word “the”, the plurals that end in –es, and in commonly used pronouns such as he, she, me, we, and they.

32. The sentence “ The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet. Fact BLUFF

33. fact The sentence “ The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet.

34. The word “set” has the highest number of different meanings in the English language. Fact BLUFF

35. bluff “Set” has 464 different definitions but the honor for the most meanings goes to the word “run” with 645 different definitions

36. “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard English keyboard Fact BLUFF

37. fact The word “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard English keyboard

38. Cows have best friends and they tend to get stressed when separated, leading to what scientists call “moo-d swings.” Fact BLUFF

39. fact That’s true! When cows are isolated from their friends and family, they get lonely, stressed, and even depressed.

40. There’s a town in Norway called Hell, and during the winter, it literally freezes over, leading to the expression “When Hell freezes over”. Fact BLUFF

41. fact That’s true! Hell is a town in Norway, and one of the coldest places on Earth with temperatures as low as -25 C.

42. Einstein failed in math class Fact BLUFF

43. bluff Contrary to rumors, Einstein didn’t fail math as a child. In fact, the scientist excelled in math.

44. The average person will spend six months of their lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green at traffic signals. Fact BLUFF

45. fact That’s not far from the fact, if you add up all the waiting time a person spends at the red lights