Q1.

Word Ladder
LEND
BEND
BAND
SAND
SAID
SAIL
SOIL
BOIL
BOIS
BRIS
BRIG
BRAG
BRAT
BEAT
BEAR
BEER
SEER
SEAR
SEAL
REAL
REAM
ROAM
ROOM
BOOM
BOOT
LOOT
LOST
LAST
CAST
CASH

ANSWER: COINAGE

Q2. Rebuses
Highjacking
Son of a Gun
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Undercover Agent
An Outside Chance
Paradox (Pair of docs hehe)
Q3. ​2 Strikes
Funda for each row- striked word
Double letters- salesman
Letters in ascending order- spoon
Tenses of verbs- baker
Songs by the Beatles- sainted
Only one vowel- behind
Exactly 7 letters- replicas

New row from striked word

Salesman spoon baker sainted behind replicas
5 of these words are anagrammable. nameless snoop brake stained calipers.
The word which strikes out twice- BEHIND.

Q4. ​Obscured Oscars(the numbers correspond to the letter in the title)

the sound of music- D
12 years a slave- R
A beautiful mind- E
Braveheart- A
Birdman- M
Million dollar baby- L
The departed- A
Titanic- N
Slumdog millionaire- D

Answer: DREAMLAND

Q5. Spellathon ​(not an exclusive list)

4 letter words​: drip, pert, pied, pier, pine, pint, ripe, trip (no points for the word ​pent​ as it is part
of the phrase ​‘pent up’ ​and has no meaning standalone)
5 letter words:​ inept, pined, pride, print, ripen, tepid, tripe, riped
7 letter word:​ printed

Q6. Tom Swifties

wildly
miserably
candidly
grimmly
curiously
frankly and earnestly (order is important. 10 if order and blanks correct, 5 if one of the blanks
placed correctly, 5 if both blanks correct but order is wrong, 0 in rest all cases)
Q7 Word Pyramids
AT
TAR
RATE
TAKER
KARATE
PARTAKE
PARAKEET

OR
ROM
ROOM
MORON
MORMON
MONOMER
COMMONER

Q8 LITERARY DEVICES
Malapropism
Synecdoche
Euphemism (Give 2 marks if someone writes metaphor)

Q9 THE ENDGAME
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell
1984, George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseni
The Book Thief, Markus Zuzak