pot pourri - assorted puzzles on the english language (answers) + round ii
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ANSWERS TO PRELIMS
▸ Please exchange papers to cross-verify your answers. ▸ Scoring will be specified on the paper and on the slides.▸ Top 6 Teams qualify to the next round. ▸ We consider correct spellings essential for full credit.
Word of the month
1 Jarringly 7 Jubilant
2 Lifeboatmen 8 Augmentable
3 Amateur 9 Sceptre
4 Appropriate 10 Octogenarian
5 Metaphysics 11 Turnover
6 Junction 12 Demarcate
+1 for every correct answer, 0 otherwise. An additional +6 beyond the points mentioned for getting any six of the twelve months. A further additional +6 beyond the points mentioned for getting all of the twelve right. (24 points)
up and down words
Block A Block B Block CLong Hospital Runway
Hair Bed Model
Color Size Airplace
Guard Up Pilot
Dog North Light
Days Star Show
You get +1 for figuring out each individual word. Repetitions do not count twice. You get an additional +2 if you solve the entirety of Block A or Block B. You get a further additional +6 if you can solve Block C entirely. (26 points)
REBUS
+2 points each. ▸ Skinny Dipping▸ Get your Act Together ▸ Robinhood▸ I am surrounded by enemies. (variants permitted)▸ Pirate ▸ Tenure
FIll er Up: AnagramsFor Question 1 and 2, You get 1 point for getting a blank, and 4 points if you get all four blanks (8 points each) For Question 3, You get 2 points for getting a blank, and 4 points if you get all four blanks. (14 points)
1.drapes, spread, rasped, spared. 2.races, acres, cares, scare.3.integral, alerting, altering, relating, triangle.
Palindromes+4 for every correct answer.
1.Senile Felines.2.Never odd or even.3.Lonely Tylenol.4.Cain: A Maniac5.Some men interpret nine memos. 6.Adam, I’m Ada!7.Aibohphobia
rules▸ 2 Rounds of Questions: each with a specific theme. No pounces. One
team and one team alone has a go at the questions.
▸ You have 60 seconds to ask Y/N Questions (any number) to your team member.
▸ +20 for a correct guess, 0 otherwise.
▸ Each team will have 2 members - one member facing this slide and the other, who will be guessing, facing the board.
▸ You may skip a question, but then you must take the next question.
WHAT’S TO BE DONE?Use the words on the screen to form a
grammatically correct sentence
You have 90 seconds.+10 for correct (In-turn)
+10 for correct answer, -10 incorrect. (Pounce)
RULES FOR PICTIONARY
▸ Your card has 6 words which you must make your team guess in 2 minutes.
▸ Each successful guess earns the team 4 points.
▸ The words marked with an asterisk are the bonus questions which fetch 2 extra points.
quick rulesPounce if you know the answer. No rotation.
+20 points for the correct answer, -20 for the wrong one.
2 Questions.
Just answer the questions on the next slides.
30 seconds per question.
What is common between these 3 sentences?
Turgid saxophones blew over Mick's jazzy quaff.
Playing jazz vibe chords quickly excites my wife.
Exquisite farm wench gives body jolt to prize stinker.
AnswerAll of the above sentences are pangrams i.e. sentences that use all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Trivia: Pangramists have long sought the perfect pangram – a 26-letter sentence containing every letter of the alphabet exactly once – with varying success.
One of the best known is:Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.
What peculiarity is in the following sentence?
He looked out at the streets and it was pouring with rain.
The vicar looked at the damned and declared there was no hope in his soul.
All the snake does is hiss and leer.