This document outlines the rules and questions for an inter-house general knowledge quiz competition between teams in 2010. It consists of 10 rounds covering topics like literature, current affairs, sports, geography, entertainment and others. Each team gets 10 points for a correct answer with no negative points for incorrect answers. Rounds 1-7 allow answers to be passed to the next team while audio-visual and rapid fire rounds do not.

1. Welcome to

2. Inter-House G.K. Quiz
Competition 2010

3. GENERAL RULES:
• There are in all 10 rounds.
• Each team will get 10
point for every correct
answer.
• There are no negative
marks in any round for an
incorrect answer.
• Rounds 1 to 7 are pass –
over rounds.
• The questions of the Audio
- Visual & Rapid Fire round
will not be passed over to
the next team.

4. ROUND 1
LITERATURE

5. Question 1
Who said: "Laugh and the world laughs with
you. Weep and you weep alone."?

6. Question 2
The quote: 'Brevity is the soul of wit' can
Be found in which of Shakespeare's
plays?

7. Question 3
Who said ,” Yet we have gone on living, living
and partly living.”?

8. Question 4
Which character says, “please sir I want some
More”?

9. ROUND 2
Current
affairs

10. Question 1
Who has been announced as the Noble prize
winner for Peace 2010?

11. Name the vice patron
for commonwealth
games 2010?
Question 2

12. Which British writer has won the Man Booker
prize 2010?
Question 3

13. QUESTION 4
Who is the current Education minister of
Maharashtra?

14. ROUND 3
SPORTS

15. QUESTION 1
What is the Manipuri version of Hockey called?

16. QUESTION 2
In which Indian state did the game of Polo
originate?

17. Question 3
The name Kunjarani Devi is associated with which
sport?

18. QUESTION 4
Who was the first Indian to ever reach the semi
final in Wimbledon Tennis Championship?

19. ROUND 4
ROUND 4

20. Question 1
Which newspaper was launched by Motilal
Nehru?

21. Question 2
Where did Aurangzeb die?

22. Question 3
Tipu Sultan
had his capital
at ________.

23. Question 4
On which
Island was
Napoleon
born?

24. ROUND 5
GEOGRAPHY

25. Question 1
Which is an important tree in tidal vegetation?

26. Question 2
The areas where the Himalayas stand today was
occupied by which ancient sea?

27. Question 3
If you were holidaying in Chittagong, in which
country would you be?

28. Question 4
Which canal shortened the distance between
India and Europe?

29. Extra
Which Country is called the country of copper?

30. Extra
Which City is called the ‘City of Canals’?

31. ROUND 6
What’s
?

32. Question 1
Name the young one of a ….or the term used
for the young one of a ….
Reindeer
Walrus
Nightingale
Koala
Turtle
Grasshopper
fear of sunlight
fear of mirrors and one's own reflections

33. ROUND 6
ROUND 7
ENTERTAINMENT

34. QUESTION 1
Who is the singer of Song “Blowing in the wind”
Which became kind of a national anthem during
US Civil War?

35. QUESTION 2
Who won the 52nd Grammy Awards for Best
Country song and Best Female Country Vocal
Performance?

36. QUESTION 3
From which country the movie “Children Of
heaven” was an entry for Oscars in the Best
Foreign Language Film Category?

37. QUESTION 4
Which Bengali movie won the “Best Movie”
National Award 2010?

38. ROUND 8
AUDIO ROUND

39. Question 1

40. Question 2

41. Question 3

42. Question 4

43. ROUND 9
VISUAL ROUND

44. QUESTION 1

45. QUESTION 2

46. QUESTION 3

47. QUESTION 4

48. ROUND 10
RAPID FIRE

51. Thank you!!!