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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.
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 credit 8. Married
9. Swear oft 10. Here Come Dots 11. Go Get Oils 12. No more stars 13. Trims cash 14. shit, me cry 15. Warm Voice
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 card 8. Married- Admirer
9. Swear oft - Software 10. Here Come Dots- The Morse Code 11. Go Get Oils - Geologist 12. No more stars - Astronomers 13. Trims cash - Christmas 14. shit, me cry-Chemistry 15. Warm Voice -Microwave
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."
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 crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! ..."
4. Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
5. I dont want to waste time in these classes. Memorising the weak assumptions of lesser mortals Terrified, petrified, mortified, stupified...by you.
Q3.Synonym Matrix(8*2=16)
1.Embarked 2.castigated 3.Deleterious 4.Eluded 5.Corroborate 6.Protracted 7.Acumen 8.Drudgery prolonged astuteness evaded tiresomeness started harmful support criticised
Q3.Synonym Matrix
1.Embarked 2.castigated 3.Deleterious 4.Eluded 5.Corroborate 6.Protracted 7.Acumen 8.Drudgery started criticised harmful evaded support prolonged astuteness tiresomeness
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Stephen Hawkings Salman Rushdie Mark Twain John Grisham Jonathan Swift Rudyard Kipling
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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Shakespeare
Q3. Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?
Peter Pan
Q4. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Q5. Satyajit Ray directed the film 'Sonar Kella'. Who wrote the book?
Sharathchantra Chattopadhyaya
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 a carriage sent by the landlord, and you'll be taken to the castle exactly at midnight. Whose castle is this?
Draculla
Q8. For which book did Arundhati Roy win the Booker Prize
Q9. Name two Indian nominations for the 2008 booker prize.. Hint : one was the author of The white tiger .
James Bond
Thank you..