Key to Round 1

Challenge 1

1 Correction of false information in Kipling’s CV:

1.   There’s a spelling mistake in his name. The correct spelling is Rudyard.
2.   He wasn’t an artist.
3.   He was born in 1865.
4.   He had 10 uncles and aunts.
5.   His children: Josephine, Elsie, John
6.   He lived with a couple in Southsea, not in a boarding school.
7.   He started his studies at United Services College in 1878.
8.   He didn’ attend Oxford University.
9.   He didn’t attend Mayo College of Art.
10. He didn’t live in Yokohama, just visited.
11. If is not a novel, it’s a poem.
12. He didn’t get Orwell Prize.

2 Check the notes.

Kipling had a happy childhood. F He lived with a couple in England who neglected him.
He is short-sighted and really sensitive. T
His father draws illustration for his stories and novels. T
His family is Anglo-Indian but he loves America. F He lived in America but didn’t like it.
He has really famous cousins: artists and even a prime minister of the UK. T
His daughter’snickname is Trix. F His sister’s nickname is Trix.
His home in the USA can remind us of a riverboat. T
Before writing his novel, The Jungle Book, he visited The Seonee jungle several times. F He never visited it.

3 Match the pictures with the names.

Naulakha – 3, 4
Bateman’s – 2, 5, 8
Rock House – 1, 6
Woolsack House - 7

Challenge 2

Crossword solution: buildings

Picture fragments of buildings:

1   Taj Mahal
2   Red Fort
3   Victoria Memorial
4   Lotus Temple
5   Birth Place of Kipling or Birth House of Kipling

Challenge 3

Timeline solution: wilderness

Quotes:

1   Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.2   For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strenght of the Wolf is the Pack.
3   Gardens are not made by singing ’Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.
4   Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
5   We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
6   No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
7   If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it.
8   Keep you face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. (Walt Whitman) – odd-one-out
9   Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
10 If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Challenge 4

1 Key the locks

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2 True, False or Not given?

1   Not given
2   False
3   Not Given
4   True
5   Not Given
6   True
7   True
8   False
9   Not given
10 True

Challenge 5

1 – K
2 – A
3 – B
4 – C
5 – L
6 – D
7 – E
8 – F
9 – G
10 – H