E n g l i s h Q u i z

IX-X
By Sundaram House

TEST
 Rules
Rule 1.There will be 4 team. Each WILL represent ITS OWN HOUSE Satyam, Shivam,
Sundaram and Shubham House. Each team will comprise of 4 members.
Rule 2. There will be 12 rounds and the team awarded with most points shall be the
winner.
Rule 3. Time duration for answering the questions will be told before the commencement
of each round.
Rule 4. Each question will carry 5 points. On the first pass, 3 points, 2 on the second
pass and 1 point on the third pass shall be awarded.
Rule 5. Only one representative from each team will answer the question.
Last but not the least, audience is requested to maintain the decorum of the auditorium
and not prompt the answers else the points would not be awarded to respective team. A
separate round for audience has also been reserved.
 Round
11
L I T E R A RY D E V I C E S
 TEAM
A
The lady who stands as the perfect
and peerless did create of every
creatures most wondrous is a symbol
of feminine virtue in 'The Tempest '
 Answer

Miranda
 TEAM B
Also The "Thane Of
Lochaber"
who is first an ally of
macbeth and they
meet The Three
Witches together In
1606 play 'Macbeth'
 Answer

Banquo
 team c
A Venetian Jewish moneylender who in the
play (The Merchant Of Venice) is the
principal antagonist.. His defeat and
conversion to Christianity form the climax
of the story
 Answer

Shylock
 TEAM D

Tragic heroine of the

Othello who greets the
deathbed for trying to
live past the prejudices
 Answer

Desdemona
 Round 3
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
TEAM
A
 Answer

Never Judge a
book by it's cover
TEAM B
 Answer

Education is
Power
team c
 Answer

An Apple a day
keeps the doctor
away
TEAM D
 Answer

Too many cooks

spoil the broth
 Round 4
SHAKESPEAR'S PEN
TEAM A
 Answer

Mark Twain
TEAM B
 Answer

Robert Louis
Stevenson
TEam c
 Answer

J. K. Rowling
TEAM D
 Answer

Charles
Dickens
TEAM
A
 Answer

Robert Frost
TEAM B
 Answer

Salman
Rushdie
team c
 Answer

William
Wordsworth
TEAM D
 Answer

George Orwell
 Round 5
GUESS THE PROVERB
Round 6
N A R R AT I O N
Various concepts in English help us express
our thoughts and ideas differently.
Narration in English grammar is a concept
related to expressing a person’s speech or
words upon which will be based on our
next round. Players are to transform the
speech and choose the correct option in
Round 5
AWA R D S
 TEAM A
Who is the world famous author,
who is the youngest recipient of
the Nobel Prize for Literature
 Answer

Rudyard
Kipling
 TEAM B
Arundhathi Roy won the
Booker Prize in the year
1997..Can you name the
novel for which she was
awarded this prestigious
award?
 Answer

The God of Small

Things
 team c
Salman Rushdie won the
Booker prize in 1981. Name
the work for which he bagged
this
prestigious award?
 Answer

Midnight’s Children
 TEAM D
Who is the famous Indian
English writer, who was awarded
the Sahithya Academy Award ,
for his novel, “The Guide”?
 Answer

R.K.Narayan
 Round 6
FA C T S A B O U T E N G L I S H
 TEAM
A
You may have come across words
or phrases that can be read the
same way in either direction...
What are such words called?
 Answer

Palindromes
 TEAM B
Sometimes in poems or
stories, the writers attribute
human traits to non-living
things.
What is this figure of
speech called?
 Answer

Personification
 team c
What is the detailed description of
the life history of a person, written
by the same person
called ?
 Answer

Autobiography
 TEAM D

What is the name given

to the study of speech
sounds or spoken
language?
 Answer

Phonetics
 Round 7
ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
 TEAM
A
A person whose nation is involved
in war
 Answer

Belligerent
 TEAM B

One who cuts precious

stones
 Answer

Lapidist
 team c

Person difficult to please

 Answer

Fastidious
 TEAM D

Words indescribed in
tomb
 Answer

Epitaph
Round 8
P U N C T U AT I O N
 Correct language is easy on the eyes.
Punctuation is an important element of
writing which clarifies the meaning more
clearly. The players would be given a slip
of paper which is not punctuated. They will
be given a 1 minute timer to punctuate the
text.
Round 9
SYNONYMS
 TEAM
A
Synonyms for Outlandish
a. Violent
b. Bizarre
c. Savage
d. Untethered
 Answer

Bizarre
 TEAM B
Synonym for Coagulate
a. Melt
b. Clot
c. Simplify
d. Clear
 Answer

Clot
 team c
Synonyn for Erude
a. Raw
b. Refined
c. Processed
d. Purified
 Answer

Ra
w
 TEAM D

Synonym for Zeal

a. Fervor
b. indolence
c. Lucidity
d. Pride
 Answer

Fervor
Round 10
ANTONYMS
 TEAM
A
Antonym for Pompous
a. Uninterested
b. Depressed
c. Startled
d. Humble
 Answer

Humbl
e
 TEAM B
Antonym for Ardous
a. Difficult
b. Hard
c. Exacting
d. Easy
 Answer

Easy
 team c
Antonym for Altruistic
a. Liberal
b. Benevolent
c. Magnanimous
d. Selfish
 Answer

Selfish
 TEAM D

Antonym for Terminate

a. End
b. Begin
c. Stop
d. Halt
 Answer

Begi
n
 TEAM
A
When a word’s vocalization imitates a
natural sound, as can be heard in the
words murmur, buzz, and pop, what do
we call that device?
 Answer

Onomatopoeia
 TEAM B
"Buzzz" went the bee past
Thomas's face. This is an
example of what literary
device?
 Answer

Simili
e
 team c

A man swung down from a mile-

high spruce. This is an example of
what literary device?
 Answer

Hyperbole
 TEAM D

Their wings were blue and

silver sails. This is an
example of what literary
device?
 Answer

Metaphor
Round
12
RAPID FIRE
 TEAM
A
1. Who wrote "The Golden Gate?
2. Whose autobiography is “Wings of Fire”?
3. Give the meaning of the expression “French Leave”?
4. Give one word for the phrasal verb “put up with”
5. What is the antonym for production?
6. Give a synonym for decorate:
7. Complete the proverb – Make hay
8. The past participle of freeze
 Answer
• Vikram Seth
• A P J Abdul Kalam
• A leave without approval
• tolerate
• destruction
• adorn
• while the sun shines
• frozen
 TEAM B
1. Who wrote the poem The Rainbow?
2. Who is the Indian writer in English whose autobiography is “My Story”?
3. Give one word for the phrasal verb “Give Up”
4. What do you call a person who sees the darker side of things?
5. What is the antonym for flexible?
6. Give a synonym for generous:-
7. What is the past participle of hide?
8. What is a 14 line poem with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme?
 Answer
• William Wordsworth
• Kamaladas
• Abandon
• Pessimist
• Rigid
• kind, good-hearted
• Hidden
• Sonnet
 team c
1. Who wrote the poem nothing gold can stay?
2. The past participle of bite
3. Complete the simile – As merry as _______________-
4. What is the young one of a deer called?
5. What is the collective noun for a group of bees?
6. Name the fictional character who was carved from a piece of pine:-
7. What is the name given to a lengthy, narrative poem, containing the
details of heroic
deeds-
8. What is the famous writer whose pen name is Saki?
 Answer
• robert frost
• Bitten
• a bird
• fawn
• swarm
• Pinocchio
• Epic
• H.H.Munroe
 TEAM D
1.What is the antonym for renowned?
2.Give a synonym for brittle:-
3. Complete the proverb: - Fools rush in _____.
4. What is the past participle of swim?
5. Complete the simile As fit as ___________________
6. What is the young one of a duck called ?
7. What is the collective noun for a group of elephants?
8. What is the name given to the nouns that we can only think
of?
 Answer
• Notorious
• weak/feeble
• where angels fear to tread.
• Swum
• a fiddle
• Duckling
• herd
• Abstract Nouns
 Round
13
TOUNGE TWISTERS
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck wood?
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Round
14
AUDIENCE
 1.Which is the only word in English which will be
pronounced the same, even when the last
four letters are removed?
2. In English, there are just 4 words which begin with
‘dw’. The first one is dwarf, the second
one is dwell, the third one is dwindle. Which is the fourth
one?
3. Which is the longest word in English without a vowel?
 Answer

• Queue
• Dweeb - A boring person
• Rhythm
Thank you!
~ Efforts By
Kanav Bansal & Rudra Bansal
 RESULTS
SATYAM :
SHIVAM :
SUNDARAM :
SHUBHAM :