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Zahra Mulroy

Spelling and grammar test from 1984 has people getting just half the answers

How much do you remember from your schooldays?

Does Pythagorus' theorem seem like a distant memory? Can you recall how an oxbow lake is formed?

Nope, us neither.

If spelling and grammar were more your thing, however, then there's a test harking back to 1984 which may have you scratching your head.

The quiz is made up of 20 questions and according to Playbuzz creator Terry Stein, participants are doomed to only ever get 50 per cent of it correct.

Answers at the bottom, because we're nice like that.

1. If I ____ you, I would quit.

2.Neither one of us ___ capable of working tomorrow?

3. Joanna kissed ____ last night?

4. _____ keys are on the desk?

5. Do you mind if I ____ until the rain stops?

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6. I feel sad for him, but his brother _______ care less.

7. Which is spelt correctly, "calendar" OR "calender"?

8. The blizzard severely ________ thousands of people.

9. Give yourself a _____ and get some rest.

10. Like a bird let ____, his horse leaped forward.

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11. If you ___ down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

12. The truck collided with a _________ vehicle.

13. A short introduction to a book is a _______.

14. Everybody ___ happy.

15. Which is spelt correctly, "fulfil" or "fulfill"?

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16. Ask him where the ______ was postmarked.

17. Mark is stronger ____ his brother.

18. He paid me an enormous __________.

19. We have a security ______.

20. Which is spelt correctly?

Answers.

1. Were

2. Is

3. Whom

4. Whose

5. Stay

6. Couldn't

7. Calendar

8. Affected

9. Break

10. Loose

11. Lie

12. Stationary

13. Foreword

14. Is

15. Fulfil (n.b. in US English it would "fulfill")

16. Envelope

17. Than

18. Compliment

19. Breach 

20. Cemetery 

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