English Quiz

IX-X
By Sundaram House

TEST YOURSELF!
 Rules
Rule 1.There will be 4 teams, each representing Satyam, Shivam,
Sundaram and Shubham House. Each team will comprise of 4
members.
Rule 2. There will be 13 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
Round
SHAKESPEAR'S PEN
 SATYAM
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
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
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
 SHUBHAM

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

Desdemona
 Round 22
Round
GUESS THE PROVERB
SATYAM
 Answer

Never Judge a
book by it's
cover
 Answer

Education is
Power
 Answer

An Apple a day
keeps the
doctor away
SHUBHAM
 Answer

Too many cooks

spoil the broth
 Round 3
Round 3
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
SATYAM
 Answer

Mark Twain
 Answer

Robert Louis
Stevenson
 Answer

J. K. Rowling
SHUBHAM
 Answer

Charles
Dickens
SATYAM
 Answer

Robert Frost
 Answer

Salman
Rushdie
 Answer

William
Wordsworth
SHUBHAM
 Answer

George
Orwell
Round 4
Round 4
AWARDS
 SATYAM
Who is the world famous
author, who is the youngest
recipient of the Nobel Prize
for Literature
 Answer

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

Midnight’s Children
 SHUBHAM

Who is the famous Indian

English writer, who was
awarded the Sahithya
Academy Award , for his
novel, “The Guide”?
 Answer

R.K.Narayan
 Round 55
Round
FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH
 SATYAM
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
 Sometimes in poems or
stories, the writers
attribute human traits
to non-living things.
What is this figure of
speech called?
 Answer

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

Autobiography
 SHUBHAM

What is the name

given to the study of
speech sounds or
spoken language?
 Answer

Phonetics
 Round 6
Round 6
ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
SATYAM
A person whose nation is
involved in war
 Answer

Belligent
One who cuts precious
stones
 Answer

Lapidist
Person difficult to please
 Answer

Fastidious
 SHUBHAM

Words indescribed in
tomb
 Answer

Epitaph
Round 77
Round
PUNCTUATION
Round 88
Round
SYNONYMS
SATYAM
Synonyms for Outlandish
a. Violent
b. Bizarre
c. Savage
d. Untethered
 Answer

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

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

Raw
 SHUBHAM

Synonym for Zeal

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

Fervor
Round 9
Round 9
ANTONYMS
SATYAM
Antonym for Pompous
a. Uninterested
b. Depressed
c. Startled
d. Humble
 Answer

Humble
Antonym for Ardous
a. Difficult
b. Hard
c. Exacting
d. Easy
 Answer

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

Selfish
 SHUBHAM

Antonym for Terminate

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

Begin
Round 10
Round 10
LITERARY DEVICES
 SATYAM
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
"Buzzz" went the bee
past Thomas's face.
This is an example of
what literary device?
 Answer

Similie
A man swung down from a
mile-high spruce. This is an
example of what literary
device?
 Answer

Hyperbole
 SHUBHAM

Their wings were blue

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

Metaphor
Round 11
Round 11
RAPID FIRE
 SATYAM
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
1. Vikram Seth
2. A P J Abdul Kalam
3. A leave without approval
4. tolerate
5. destruction
6. adorn
7. while the sun shines
8. frozen
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
1. William Wordsworth
2. Kamaladas
3. Abandon
4. Pessimist
5. Rigid
6. kind, good-hearted
7. Hidden
8. Sonnet
1. Who wrote the poem The Rainbow?
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
1. John Milton
2. Bitten
3. a bird
4. fawn
5. swarm
6. Pinocchio
7. Epic
8. H.H.Munroe
 SHUBHAM

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
1. Notorious
2. weak/feeble
3. where angels fear to tread.
4. Swum
5. a fiddle
6. Duckling
7. herd
8. Abstract Nouns
Round 12
Round 12
TOUNGE TWISTERS
1. Black background, brown background.
2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
3. She sells seashells by the seashore.
4. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
Round 13
Round 13
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

1. Queue
2. Dweeb - A boring
person
3. Rhythm
Thank you!
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