DUCIMUS

WAR OF the WORDS-Vikas Prasad

Rules

1. 15 questions.

2. Questions will be repeated once after the slideshow is over.

3. Quizmaster’s decision will be final .

4. No cheating or googling.

Q1.Anagrams(15*2=30 points)

1.Dirty Room

2.Indicatory3. Stamp Store4. To see place5. A stew, Sir6. A rope ends it7. Bad credit8. Married

9. Swear oft

10. Here Come Dots11. Go Get Oils12. No more stars13. Trims cash14. shit, me cry15. Warm Voice

Q.Anagrams(15*2=30 points)

1.Dirty Room-Dormitory

2.Indicatory- Dictionary3. Stamp Store- Post master4. To see place- telescope5. A stew, Sir- Waitress6. A rope ends it- Desperation7. Bad credit- Debit card8. Married- Admirer

9. Swear oft - Software

10. Here Come Dots- The Morse Code11. Go Get Oils - Geologist12. No more stars - Astronomers13. Trims cash - Christmas14. shit, me cry-Chemistry15. 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."

The Christmas Carol-Charles Dickens

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 NileOn every golden scale! ..."

Alice in Wonderland

- Lewis Caroll

4.“Behind every great fortune, there is a crime”.

"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."

The Godfather

- Mario Puzo

5.“I dont want to waste time in these classes. Memorising the weak assumptions of lesser mortals”

“Terrified, petrified, mortified, stupified...by you.”

A Beautiful MindSylvia nasar

Q3.Synonym Matrix(8*2=16)

1.Embarked - prolonged2.castigated - astuteness

3.Deleterious - evaded

4.Eluded - tiresomeness

5.Corroborate - started

6.Protracted - harmful

7.Acumen - support

8.Drudgery - criticised

Q3.Synonym Matrix

1.Embarked - started2.castigated - criticised

3.Deleterious - harmful

4.Eluded - evaded

5.Corroborate - support

6.Protracted - prolonged

7.Acumen - astuteness

8.Drudgery - tiresomeness

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---G4.Gossip - T-TT--T-TT--5.Annual - Y----Y

6.Transparent - --Q--

1.MINIMUM/MAXIMUM

2.EFFERVESCENCE

3.GIGGLING

4.TITTERTATTER

5.YEARLY

6.OPAQUE

Q5. Decrypt the famous authors(3*6)

1. A Knight’s nephew2. Smashed urinal

3. Twin Karma

4. Shh ! Groin jam

5. What joint fans

6. Dark, lurid, pingy

1. Stephen Hawkings

2. Salman Rushdie

3. Mark Twain

4. John Grisham

5. Jonathan Swift

6. Rudyard Kipling

Enough of words and vocab

Lets move onto proper quizzing..:p

(don’t be afraid, it is not going to be that tough..

Q1.

How many lines does a sonnet have?

• 14

Q2.

Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?

• 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?

Satyajit Ray himself

Q6. Who wrote 'Devdas'?

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

God of small things

Q9. Name two Indian nominations for the 2008 booker prize..

Hint : one was the author of “The white tiger “.

Arvind Adiga

Amitav Ghoshe

Q10. Who made his debut in Casino Royale in 1952 ?

James Bond

Thank you..