Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

As well aware, Korea towns in many of the US states are not the only place where Americans are able to feel and experience Korean culture. From movies and music to beauty products to fashion items to street snack to restaurant meals, Korean impacts and cultural aspects have grown bigger than ever lately. Care for some easy breezy quiz about Korean culture?      1.    Which of the following words describes the growing popularity of Korean pop culture trends?     a.    K-pop     b.    K-wave (called Hallyu)     c.    K-trending       2.    What’s a subgenre of Korean popular music that’s influenced by Western rap?     a.    K-club     b.    K-culture     c.    K-hip hop       3.    Bulgogi, kimchi, Dalgona, and Tteok-bokki are examples of which of the following?     a. ...

Every answer today is a word or name with the accented syllable pronounced as "sell" — in any part of the word, and in any spelling. Ex. Place for  wine to be stored --> CEL LAR 1. Merry-go-round 2. Speed up, as a car 3. Alternative to Fahrenheit 4. Noted site of a 1965 march 5. Crunchy bit in a salad 6. Infrequently 7. Sportscaster Howard 8. Actor Peter who played Inspector Clouseau 9. Tennis star Monica 10. Mime Marceau 11. Boston's N.B.A. team 12. High-speed train service between Boston and Washington, D.C. 13. Picture you take with your own phone 14. Transparent sheet of wrapping material 15. New York's state motto ("Ever upward") 16. Have a party, as for a birthday   Answer Keys       1.   carou sel     2.   ac cel erate     3.   cel sius     4.   Sel ma     5.   cel ery     6.   sel dom     7.   Co sell ...

I'm going to name something — like a state, state capital, flower, etc. You name something else in the same category as my thing that has the same number of letters as mine ... and that starts and ends with the same letters as mine. Example: Augusta --> ATLANTA [both state capitals, both 7 letters long, both start and end in "A"]   *Picture Source: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Categories-Naming-Task-speech-291725 1. Alabama 2. Pansy 3. Forty 4. Raven 5. Rupee 6. Baylor 7. Sudan 8. Jackson 9. Cocoa Puffs   Answer Keys     1.   Arizona (7-letter US State that starts & ends with A)     2.   Peony (5-letter flower that starts with P & ends with Y)     3.   Fifty (5-letter number that starts with f & ends with Y)     4.   Robin (5-letter bird name that starts with R & ends with N) 5.   Ruble (5-letter international currency name that starts...

I'm going to give you two 4-letter words. Rearrange the letters of one of them to get a synonym of the other. Which word is the synonym and which is the anagram is for you to discover. Ex. SOUP WORK --> OPUS (anagram of "soup," synonym of "work")     1. THIN ELAN 2. TURN EVER 3. DRAG HULA 4. RASP MAST 5. DUNE BARE 6. WHIP GOLF 7. PLUM CLOD 8. LEAP RING 9. DRAB POET 10. FUSE LEWD 11. GONE FELT   Answer Keys          1.   LEAN (anagram of “ELAN”, synonym of “THIN”)       2. VEER (anagram of “EVER”, synonym of “TURN)      3. HAUL (anagram of “HULA”, synonym of “DRAG)      4. SPAR (anagram of “RASP”, synonym of “MAST”)      5. NUDE (anagram of “DUNE”, synonym of “BARE”)      6. FLOG (anagram of “GOLF”, synonym of “WHIP”)      7. LUMP (anagram of “PLUM”, synonym of “CLOD”)  ...

  D J G E Y I W N   Create 10 words by selecting the letters provided. Letters can only be used once per word. No curse words, sorry.           Answer Keys       1.   Win     2.   Jig     3.   New     4.   Dew     5.   Neg     6.   Wig     7.   In      8.   EW     9.   Dig     10. G in

Every answer today is a two-word rhyming phrase that starts with the name of a U.S. city. Ex. Alternatives to paper clips in Florida --> NAPLES STAPLES   1. Strip of breakfast meat in Georgia 2. Home for a king or queen in Texas 3. Overhead part of a room in West Virginia 4. Doing the rumba or waltz in Michigan 5. A lucky one has four leaves in Delaware 6. A herding dog in North Carolina 7. Marriage ceremony in Pennsylvania 8. Goods carried on a ship in North Dakota 9. Side of a road in Colorado 10. Coverings for holes in clothing in Mississippi 11. A metric unit in Hawaii 12. Place where planes land in Connecticut   Answer Keys     1.    Macon Bacon     2.    Dallas Palace     3.    Wheeling Ceiling     4.    Lancing Dancing     5.    Dover Clover     6.    Raleigh Collie     7.    Reading ...

Every answer today is the name of a popular TV show, past or present, whose one-word name rhymes with the word I give you. (This Sunday Puzzle might be easy to Americans who have spent most of their lives, enjoying American TV shows. Although this batch of quiz exclusively focuses on American TV shows, give it a try!) Ex. Melon --> ELLEN   1. Bends 2. Piers 3. Crash 4. Panics 5. Redwood 6. Blouse 7. Cargo 8. Blips 9. Maxi 10. Coda 11. Clawed 12. Brooch 13. Frost 14. Palace   Answer Keys     1.    Friends     2.    Cheers     3.    MASH     4.    Mannix     5.    Deadwood     6.    House     7.    Wells Fargo     8.    Chips     9.    Taxi    10.  Rhoda    11.   Maude    12.  Coach   ...