LITERARY QUIZ

WELCOME TO INTER CBSE

ENGLISH LITERARY QUIZ

RULES & REGULATIONS• The program comprises 4 rounds.• Each team has 2 questions to answer in

each of the first 3 rounds.• 10 marks for correct answer. There is no

negative marking.• The question is passed to other team if

the answer is wrong.• 5 marks is awarded for pass question.

• The fourth round is the Rapid fire round.• Five questions for each team with 50

marks.• It is not a pass round.• Quizmaster’s decision is the final.

ALL THE BEST.

ROUND-1 RECALL

& ANSWER

1. Who is the author of the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”?

Ans. Mark Twain

2. By whom is “Sherlock Holmes" character created?

Ans. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Who has authored the historical tragedies “Macbeth” and “Othello”?

Ans. William Shakespeare

4. Which author known as the “Queen of Crime" has written “Crooked House” and “Ordeal by Innocence”?

Ans. Agatha Christie

5. Which famous author’s pseudonym(pen name) is “Saki”?

Ans. Hector Hugh Munro

6. Whose second novel “Midnight’s Children” won the Booker prize in 1981?

Ans. Salman Rushdie

7. Which educator’s 1901 biography is titled “Up From Slavery”?

Ans. Brooker T. Washington

8. “Thinking Differently” is the Biography of whom?

Ans. Steve Jobs

ROUND-2

WHO AM I ?

Jane Austen

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Thomas Hardy

Amish Tripathi

J.K. Rowling

Ruskin Bond

Robin Sharma

ROUND-3FAMOUS QUOTES

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep..............

Stopping by wood in the snowy evening

Robert Frost

Dream is not that which you see in sleep, It is something that does not let you sleep..

Wings of FireDr.APJ Abdul Kalam

Politics and religion are obsolete. The time has come for science and technology.

Discovery of IndiaPt. Jawaharlal Nehru

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I- I took the less travelled by and that has made all the difference.

Road not takenRobert Frost

What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.

Romeo and JulietteWilliam Shakespeare

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat flows on high o’er vales

and hillsWhen all at once I saw a crowdA host of golden daffodils....

DaffodilsWilliam Wordsworth

It is a true universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife......

Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore

ROUND-4RAPID FIRE