*ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL,GWALIOR

INTER HOUSE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

QUIZ COMPETITION

*ORGANISED BY Ms NEELU DIXIT&DHANYA V.B

*RULES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

We have 10 rounds under the category of language
and literature.
Language is divided into five rounds.
1. Spelling
2. Tenses
3. Vocabulary
4. Idioms
5. Figure of speech
Each question carries five marks. 30 seconds
will be given for each question.
Literature is divided into 5 rounds:
1. Prose
2. Poetry
3. Drama
4. Awards
5. Audio
Each question will carry 5 marks and time allotted
for each question will be 30 seconds.
*In audio round each question carries 20 marks.
If you are able to identify the speaker without clues,
you will score 20 marks.
If you will answer after the first clue you will score
1o marks.
If you answer after the second clue you will get only
5 marks.

ROUND 1 SPELLING
Under each of the following questions, a word has
been in four different ways, only one of the spelling
is correct. Choose the correctly spelt word.
1 a) alltimeter b)altemeter
c) altimeter d) altimetre
Ans: altimeter
2. a) amature b)amateur
c) ameteur d)ameture
Ans: amateur
3) a) blesphemy b) blaspheme
c) blasphemy d) blasphemy
Ans:blasphemy
4) a) jeoperdize b)joepardize
c) jopardize c) jeopardize
Ans jeopardize
5)a)cellebrity b) celiebrity
c) celebrity d) celebriety
Ans: celebrity
6) a) entrepreneur b) enterpreneur
c) enterperneur d)enteropreneur
Ans: entrepreneur
7. a)lecuna b)lacuna
c) laccuna d) lacunna
Ans: lacuna
8 a) teatotaller b) teatotallar
c) teetotaller d) teetotatler
Ans: teetotaller
ROUND-2
TENSES
 1. In which tense, the following sentence is
written
“I write letters to my brother.”
a) Present Indefinite b)Present Perfect
b) Past indefinite c)Present continuous
Ans: Present Indefinite
2) When in a sentence ‘has or have’ is
followed by the third form of the verb, which
tense is it?
a) present perfect b) Past Indefinite
c)Past Perfect d)PresentPerfectContinuous
Ans: Present Perfect
3.In determining the tense of a sentence, what is
the most important?
a) subject of thee sentence
b) object of the sentence
c) verb of the sentence
d) conjunctions of the sentence
Ans: verb of the sentence
4. Which tense is used for an action just completed?
a)Present Indefinite
b)Past Indefinite
c)Present continuous
d) Present Perfect
Ans: Present Perfect
5) Find out the correct sentence among the
following:
a) Ram and Sita plays chess.
b) Ram and Sita has played chess.
c) Ram and Sita are playing chess
Ans: Ram and Sita are playing chess.
6. Which of the following is a correct sentence?
a) Iam liking reading books.
b) You likes reading books.
c) You have has liked to read books.
 d) You like reading books.
Ans: You like reading books.
7. In which tense, ‘is, am ,are’ are used as helping
verbs?
a) Present continuous
b) Past Indefinite
c) Past continuous
d) Present Perfect
Ans: present continuous
8. “I will have done my work in a week is an
example of---
a) Present Perfect
b) Future continuous
c) Future Perfect
d) Future Perfect continuous
Ans:Future Perfect
ROUND-3
FIGURES OF SPEECH
 Identify the correct figure of speech used in
each out of the four choices so given:

1.Floods of tears flowed down her cheeks-

a)Simile b)Metaphor c)Hyperbole
d)Alliteration
Ans: Hyperbole
2) Camel is the ship of the desert.
a)Metaphor b)Simile c) pun d)
d)Personification
Ans: Metaphor
3) “O my love’s like a red, red, rose, that
newly sprung in June”
a)Alliteration b) Metaphor
b) Simile d) Hyperbole
Ans: Simile
4) Death lays his icy hand on kings-
a) Metaphor b) Personification
c) Irony d)Pun
Ans: Personification
ROUND 4 VOCABULARY
SYNONYMS
Give synonyms for the underlined word from the
following sentences
1)This material burnishes well.
a)shines b)burns d)bends e) heats up
Ans: shines
2.) The cyclonic winds may occasionally prove to
be a great catastrophe.
a)boon b)disaster c)challenge d)fortunate
Ans: disaster
3. Each one of us is the subjects of derision at one
time or the other in life.
a) laughter b)criticism
c) ridicule d) irony
Ans: ridicule
4) This scheme is so diabolical that I must reject it.
a) devilish b) immature
c) perfunctory d) pejorative
Ans: devilish
ANTONYMS
GIVE ANTONYM FOR THE UNDERLINED WORD
FOR THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE
1. The recommendation was discarded.
a)highlighted b) forwarded
c) elaborated d) accepted
Ans: accepted
2. He is savage in his behavior.
a) Uncouth b) civilized
c)barbaric d) humble
Ans: civilized
3. His style of writing is very concise.
 a) Precise b)compact
c)verbose d)ornamental
Ans: verbose
4. There was no compassionate person in the
locality.
a) passionate generous
b) merciless fashionable
Ans: merciless
ROUND-5
IDIOMS
Choose the correct meaning of the following
idioms:
1. to beat the air
A)to act cruelly
B) to make vain efforts
C) to try to do something impossible
D) to behave wildly
Ans: to make vain efforts
 2. to hold one’s tongue
A)to talk too much
B) to curb one’s habits
C) to be silent
D) to be proud
Ans: to be silent
3. to make a mountain a mole hill
A)to boast
B) to be adventurous
C) to be highly daring
D) to exaggerate
Ans: to exaggerate
4. to take leap in the dark
A)to work in darkness
B) to work in dark mines
C) to act rashly without thinking of the
consequence
D) to act without any aim
Ans: to act rashly without thinking of the
consequence

ROUND 6
AUTHOR AND THEIR WORKS
PROSE
Q1. Who wrote the ‘God of small things’?
a)R.K Narayan b)Byron
c)Arundhati Roy c)M.K Gandhi
Ans: Arundhati Roy
Q2. Who is associated with Malgudi?
a) R.K Narayan b) Mulk Raj Anand
c)Khushwant Singh d) Anita Desai
Ans: R.K Narayan
Q3.Who made the ancient Indian Philosophy known
to the whole world at the parliament of Religious in
Chicago,USA?
a)Rabindranath Tagore b)Surendran
c)Swami Vivekanand d) Kamala Das
Ans: Swami Vivekanand
Q4. Who is the author of ”My Experiments with
Truth.” ?
a) Jawahar Lal Nehru b)R.C Dutt
c)Sarat Chandra Chatterjee d) M.K Gandhi
Ans: M.K Gandhi
Q5. Who wrote his short stories under the pen
name of O’Henry?
a) Katherine N. Porte b)William Sidney Porter
c)E.V Lucas d)Himmingway
Ans: William Sydney Porter
Q6. Who is the author of the famous short story
‘The Diamond Necklace’?
a) Edgar Allen Poe
b) Katherine N Porter
c) Guy De Maupassant
d) O Henry
Ans: Guy De Maupassant
Q7. Who is the author of Sherlock Holmes stories?
a) Arthur Conan Doyle
b) O Henry
c) Washington Irving
d) Jonathan Swift
Ans: Arthur Conan Doyle
Q8. Elia is the pen name assumed by-
a)Carlyle
b) Hazlitt
c)Charles Lamb
d) T.S Eliot
Ans: Charles lamb
ROUND-7 POETRY
Q1. Having embraced Islam a well known writer
has changed her name to ‘Suraiya Begum.’
a)Sudha Murty
b) Anita Desai
c) Nidhi Makkar
d) Kamala Das
Ans: Kamala Das
Q2. Night of the scorpion is a famous poem of –
a) R. Parthasarathy
b) Nissim Ezekiel
c) A.k Ramanujan
d) Vikram Seth
Ans: Nissim Ezekiel
Q3. Who is known as the Nightingale of India?
 a) Amrita Pritam
b) Shobha De
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Arundhati Roy
Ans: Sarojini Naidu
Q4. Who wrote the “Vary Indian Poem in Indian
English”?
a) Kamala Das
b) Nissim Ezekiel
c) Kamala MarKandaya
d) Shiv k. Kumar
Ans: Nissim Ezekiel
Q5. Who said,”Poetry is the spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings.”
a)Herrich
b)P.B Shelley
c) William Wordsworth
c)Keats
Ans: William Wordsworth
Q6 “The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.”From whose poem
the above given extract has been taken ?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Sir Philip Sidney
c) P.B Shelly
d) Robert Frost
Ans: Robert Frost
Q7. “The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more”
These are the concluding lines of a poem by
Wordsworth. Which poem?
a) The daffodils
b) To the cuckoo
 c) The solitary reaper
d) The world is too much with us
Ans: The Solitary Reaper

Q8. If winter comes can

spring be far behind?
This is the concluding line of ” Ode to the West
Wind”. Who is the poet?
a)P.B Shelley
b) Keats
c)Tennyson
d) Milton
Ans: P.B Shelley
ROUND -8
DRAMA
Q1 Which of the following is not a character in King
Lear?
a)Goneril b)Maria c)Regan d)Edmund
Ans: Maria
Q2 Of which play of Shakespeare Desdemona is the
heroine?
a)Othello b)Macbeth
c) King Lear d)Antony and Cleopatra
Ans: Othello
Q3. Cliban is a character in
a) Hamlet b)Merchant of Venice
C)Tempest d) King Lear
Ans: King Lear
Q4 Who was the wife of Julius Caesar?
a) Calphurnia
b) Cordelia
c) Ophelia
d) Olivia
Ans: Calphurnia
Q5. The Tea Party is a famous play written by
a) G.B Shaw
b) Thomas Norton
c) George Peele
d) Harold Pinter
Ans: Harold Pinter
Q6. Waiting for Godot is a famous drama written
by
a)Christopher Marlowe
b) Samuel Bekett
C)John Ford
d) John Marston
Ans: Samuel Bekett
Q7. The Silver Box is a famous play written by
a) John Galsworthy
b) John Webster
c) Ben Johnson
d) John Fletcher
Ans: John Galsworthy
Q8. Saint Joan is a play written by-
a) John Dryden
b) G.B Shaw
c) Joseph Addison
d) T.S Eliot
Ans: G.B Shaw
ROUND 9
AWARDS
Q1. Who won the Booker of Bookers?
b) Khuswant Singh
c) Mulkraj Anand
d) Salman Rushdie
Ans: Salman Rushdie
Q2. Who received Pulitzer award in the year2012
for writing fiction” The sense of an ending”?
a)Anne Enright
b) Hilary Mantel
c)John Banville
d) Julian Barnes
Ans: Julian Barnes
Q3. Who received Nobel Prize in Literature in the
year 2011?
a)Wole Soyinka
b) Naquib Mahfouz
c) Thomas Transtromer
d) Joseph Brodsky
Ans: Thomas Transtromer
Q4.Who received Pulitzer Prize 2011 in the
general non-fiction category for his acclaimed
 book on cancer.”The emperor of all maladies: A
biography of cancer.’’
a) Shashi Tharoor
b)Siddhartha Mukherjee
c)Chetan Bhagat
d) Vikram Seth
Ans: Siddhartha Mukherjee