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..