Test your understanding of this lottery win

1. [Multiple choice]

Angela Kelly lives

(Lanarkshire is in Scotland – the key word you may have recognised is the mention of Glasgow, where she was employed.)

Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. in England.
• 2. in Wales.
• 3. in Scotland. (correct)
• 4. in Northern Ireland.

2. [Multiple choice]

If you enter a draw you

Answers for Quiz [2].

• 1. buy a lottery ticket. (correct)
• 2. win a lottery.
• 3. claim a prize.
• 4. win a draw.

3. [Multiple choice]

Ms Kelly worked for the Post Office

(She worked in the Post Office sorting office.)

Answers for Quiz [3].

• 1. delivering post.
• 2. driving postvans.
• 3. sorting post ready for delivery. (correct)
• 4. as a counter-assistant.

4. [Multiple choice]

The EuroMillions draw usually takes place

Answers for Quiz [4].

• 1. on a Monday.
• 2. on a Wednesday.
• 3. on a Friday. (correct)
• 4. on a Saturday.

5. [Multiple choice]

A jackpot is

Answers for Quiz [5].

• 1. a large cash prize. (correct)
• 2. a valuable ornament such as a Japanese vase.
• 3. a large salary rise.
• 4. a common form of birthday present.

6. [Multiple choice]

This prize is worth

Answers for Quiz [6].

• 1. 40 million pounds.
• 2. almost 35 and a half million pounds. (correct)
• 3. just over 33 million pounds.
• 4. 33 million pounds.

7. [Multiple choice]

If you won a prize you could say you

Answers for Quiz [7].

• 1. landed a prize. (correct)
• 2. tried to win a prize.
• 3. claimed a prize.
• 4. entered a competition.

8. [Multiple choice]

Scooping the jackpot means

Answers for Quiz [8].

• 1. winning a prize.
• 2. claiming quite a lot of money.
• 3. winning the top amount of money. (correct)
• 4. expecting to win a prize.

9. [Multiple choice]

Hitting the jackpot is another way of saying

(to hit the jackpot is to win a / the top prize and also to have an unexpected or great success. eg “He’s really hit the jackpot, meeting such a lovely group of people.” would mean he had been very fortunate to meet these people, and that it was somewhat unexpected that he did so.)

Answers for Quiz [9].

• 1. going in for a lottery.
• 2. assaulting a man whom you dislike.
• 3. buying a lottery ticket.
• 4. winning the top prize. (correct)

10. [Multiple choice]

Ms Kelly

(The article stated she was ‘still in shock’. Sometimes we say the news has ‘still not really sunk in’ meaning we have not yet really absorbed the reality of an event. This may be of good or sad news.)

Answers for Quiz [10].

• 1. recovered quickly from her surprise win.
• 2. sounds as if her surprise win has still not fully sunk in. (correct)
• 3. had no intention of claiming her prize money.
• 4. was not surprised by her good fortune.

11. [Multiple choice]

Ms Kelly knew that she had the winning lottery ticket

Answers for Quiz [11].

• 1. straightaway.
• 2. almost immediately.
• 3. within 24 hours of the winning ticket being announced.
• 4. only a few days later. (correct)

12. [Multiple choice]

Ms Kelly has decided, in the light of her win,

(To quit work is to leave work, to leave one’s job.)

Answers for Quiz [12].

• 1. to give up her job. (correct)
• 2. to treat her son and herself to a holiday.
• 3. to continue her life as before, but with a few ‘treats’.
• 4. to stay on at work.

13. [Multiple choice]

If Ms Kelly had wanted to earn the equivalent amount of money of the jackpot it would have taken her

Answers for Quiz [13].

• 1. twenty years.
• 2. a lifetime.
• 3. two hundred years.
• 4. two thousand years. (correct)

14. [Multiple choice]

In 2005 a lottery-winner won

(Dolores McNamara, from Limerick, Ireland, won £77m. Limerick is a city in the midwest of the Republic of Ireland.)

Answers for Quiz [14].

• 1. half as much as Ms Kelly did.
• 2. over twice as much as Ms Kelly did. (correct)
• 3. almost as much as Ms Kelly did.
• 4. slightly more than Ms Kelly did .

15. [Multiple choice]

In which of the following countries is the EuroMillions Lottery not played, as far as we are told?

(VB To scoop – to pick up or gather in a swift movement or with a ladle, scoop or spoon eg of a liquid
To scoop – a verb often used in journalism and reporting media – to be the first newspaper / TV channel to discover and print or announce an important news story.
A local paper scooped the news of the scandal about the local council.
To scoop is also used as an intensifying verb to add some drama to the act of winning a prize. It often reflects a prize of great value – as here – or of great importance such as a series of theatre, art or comedy awards. It also often conveys an element of surprise, or a sense that something has been hardwon, against great odds.
)

Answers for Quiz [15].

• 1. Austria
• 2. Belgium
• 3. France
• 4. Germany
• 5. Italy (correct)
• 6. Portugal
• 7. Spain
• 8. Switzerland