war of the words english quiz

7/29/2019 War of the words english quiz

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DUCIMUS

WAR OF the WORDS

-Vikas Prasad


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Rules

1. 15 questions.

2. Questions will be repeated once after the

slideshow is over.

3. Quizmasters decision will be final .

4. No cheating or googling.


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Q1.Anagrams(15*2=30 points)

1.Dirty Room

2.Indicatory

3. Stamp Store

4. To see place

5. A stew, Sir

6. A rope ends it

7. Bad credit8. Married


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9. Swear oft

10. Here Come Dots11. Go Get Oils

12. No more stars

13. Trims cash

14. shit, me cry

15. Warm Voice


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Q.Anagrams(15*2=30 points)

1.Dirty Room-Dormitory

2.Indicatory- Dictionary

3. Stamp Store- Post master

4. To see place- telescope

5. A stew, Sir- Waitress

6. A rope ends it- Desperation

7. Bad credit- Debit card8. Married- Admirer


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9. Swear oft - Software

10. Here Come Dots- The Morse Code11. Go Get Oils - Geologist

12. No more stars - Astronomers

13. Trims cash - Christmas

14. shit, me cry-Chemistry

15. Warm Voice -Microwave


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Q.2 Pick up the clues/quotes to guess the book.

Bonus points for the author.(10+5)

1. "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot

of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of

underdone potato. There's more of gravy than

of grave about you, whatever you are!

"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."


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The Christmas Carol

-Charles Dickens


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2.

"what is the use of a book,' thought X, 'without

pictures or conversations?'

"Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!

"How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the waters of the Nile

On every golden scale! ..."


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Alice in Wonderland

- Lewis Caroll


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4.

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.

"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than

a hundred men with guns."


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The Godfather

- Mario Puzo


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5.

I dont want to waste time in these classes.

Memorising the weak assumptions of lesser

mortals

Terrified, petrified, mortified, stupified...byyou.


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A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia nasar


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Q3.Synonym Matrix(8*2=16)

1.Embarked - prolonged

2.castigated - astuteness

3.Deleterious - evaded

4.Eluded - tiresomeness

5.Corroborate - started

6.Protracted - harmful

7.Acumen - support8.Drudgery - criticised


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Q3.Synonym Matrix

1.Embarked - started

2.castigated - criticised

3.Deleterious - harmful

4.Eluded - evaded

5.Corroborate - support

6.Protracted - prolonged

7.Acumen - astuteness8.Drudgery - tiresomeness


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Q4.Alphabet Soup(word on the right is

either a synonym or antonym)

(2*6=12)

1.Least - M---M-M

2.Fizz - E--E--E--E--E

3.Chuckling - G-GG---G

4.Gossip - T-TT--T-TT--

5.Annual - Y----Y6.Transparent - --Q--


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1.MINIMUM/MAXIMUM

2.EFFERVESCENCE

3.GIGGLING4.TITTERTATTER

5.YEARLY

6.OPAQUE


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Q5. Decrypt the famous authors(3*6)

1. A Knights nephew

2. Smashed urinal

3. Twin Karma

4. Shh ! Groin jam

5.What joint fans6. Dark, lurid, pingy


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1. Stephen Hawkings

2. Salman Rushdie

3. Mark Twain4. John Grisham

5. Jonathan Swift

6. Rudyard Kipling


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Enough of words and vocab

Lets move onto proper quizzing..:p

(dont be afraid, it is not going to be that

tough..


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Q1.

How many lines does a sonnet have?


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14


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Q2.

Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to

be wise'?


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Shakespeare


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Q3.

Name the book which opens with the line 'All

children, except one grew up'?


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Peter Pan


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Q4. Who would be called the English Homer and

father of English poetry?


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Geoffrey Chaucer


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Q5. Satyajit Ray directed the film 'Sonar Kella'.

Who wrote the book?


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Satyajit Ray himself


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Q6. Who wrote 'Devdas'?


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Sharathchantra Chattopadhyaya


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Q7. This is a castle in the Carpathian Mountains.

To reach the castle, after a comfortable rest at

the Golden Krone Hotel in Bistritz, take a coach

through the Borgo Pass. There you'll find acarriage sent by the landlord, and you'll be taken

to the castle exactly at midnight. Whose castle is

this?


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Draculla


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Q8. For which book did Arundhati Roy win the

Booker Prize


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God of small things


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Q9. Name two Indian nominations for the 2008

booker prize..

Hint : one was the author of The white tiger .


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Arvind Adiga

Amitav Ghoshe


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Q10. Who made his debut in Casino Royale in

1952 ?


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James Bond


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Thank you..

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