Literature quiz Simple stuff. JC kids and Above

1. SIES LI-TE
QUIZ
By: Tarun & Varun

2. ROUND 1
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Rules!
Ten simple questions 10 points if one team answers
 If more than 1 team but not more than 5 teams
answer 5 points
 More than 5 teams answer 2 points
 Good luck
 QM is your arch rival answer ALL!
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3. QUESTION 1
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Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel X
anonymously from Robert Bloch for only US$9,000.
He then bought up as many copies of the novel as
he could to keep the ending a secret. Which novel?

4. ANSWER 1
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psycho

5. QUESTION 2
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In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually
referred to by its original French title, which has not
been successfully translated from French. (attempts
ranging from The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The
Wretched Poor and The Victims, to The
Dispossessed). It was popularized by numerous
adaptations including a musical and a motion
picture. Name the novel and the author

6. ANSWER 2
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LES MISERABLES

7. QUESTION 3
 Which
novel by Thackeray is known as „the
novel without a hero‟

8. ANSWER 3
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Vanity Fair

9. QUESTION 4
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„All for one and one for all‟ a popular saying, was
popularised as the motto of 4 who stayed loyal to
each other through thick and thin. Name the book
and author

10. ANSWER 4
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Three musketeers by
Alexandre Dumas

11. QUESTION 5
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8. Which novel used the following poem?
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Ten little Soldier boys went out to dine;One choked his little self and then there were
nine.
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Nine little Soldier boys sat up very late;One overslept himself and then there were
eight.
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Eight little Soldier boys traveling inDevon;One said he'd stay there and then there
were seven.
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Seven little Soldier boys chopping up sticks;One chopped himself in halves and
then there were six.
 little Soldier boys playing with a hive;A bumblebee stung one and then there
Six
were five.
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Five little Soldier boys going in for law;One got inChanceryand then there were four.
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Four little Soldier boys going out to sea;Ared herringswallowed one and then there
were three.
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Three little Soldier boys walking in the zoo;A big bear hugged one and then there
were two.
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Two Little Soldier boys sitting in the sun;One got frizzled up and then there was one.
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One little Soldier boy left all alone;He went out and hanged himself,
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___ ____ _____ ____ ____.

12. ANSWER 5

13. QUESTION 6
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Algorithm to derive a phone-number from the 2003
book X:Step 1: Create a new SMS.Step 2: Change
the mode to number mode.Step 3: Enter the word
that the organization is responsible for.Step 4:
End.The number so gotten is the phone-number of
the organization.Id X.

14. ANSWER 6

15. QUESTION 7
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Common name: XScientific name:
AnagallisarvensisClaim to fame: Alter-ego of an
eponymous 1903 play that was later novelized. The
protagonist, X, was one of the earliest examples of
a costumed hero, and served as an inspiration for
heroes such as Zorro, Batman, the Shadow, Green
Hornet, Lone Ranger, etc.Id X.

16. ANSWER 7

17. QUESTION 8
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He is supposed to be the precursor to Sherlock
Holmes, he first appeared in the novel „murders in
the rue morgue‟ recognized as the first detective
story. This fictional detective Auguste C Dupin was
created by which 19th century American writer?

18. ANSWER 8
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Edgar Allan Poe

19. QUESTION 9
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In 1841, New Yorkers waited for news from Europe
concerning the fate of ‗Little Nell„. Her ‗death„ was
greeted by shock on both sides of the Atlantic,
especially in the United States. This was one of the
first times that the ‗death„ of a fictional character
affected people on a large scale. However, unlike
the ‗death„ of Sherlock Holmes over
ReichenbachFalls, ‗Little Nell„ did not come
back.Name the author who created ‗Little Nell„
AND the book she appeared in?

20. ANSWER 9

21. QUESTION 10
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What are these stories collectively called? Also id the
writer.
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How the Whale got his Throat
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How the Camel got his Hump
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How the Rhinoceros got his Skin
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How the Leopard got his Spots
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The Elephant's Child
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The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
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The Beginning of the Armadilloes
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How the First Letter was Written
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How the Alphabet was Made
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The Crab that Played with the Sea
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The Cat that Walked by Himself
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The Butterfly that Stamped
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The TabuTale

22. ANSWER 10
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Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling

23. MATCH ROUND
Simple match the column
 First step Identify the left and right columns
 5 points to all teams who do so
 For every match u get 2 points
 If U have all correct plus 20
 More than 5 plus 10
 Then why wait Match em up!
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24. MATCH
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Alisa Zinov'yevnaRosenbaum
Dr Suess
Mary Ann Evans
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie:
George Elliot
C. S. Lewis:
Ayn Rand
William Sydney Porter
N. W. Clerk
Hector Hugh Munro:
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet
O Henry
Charlotte Brontë
Saki
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Currer Bell

25. ANSWERS
Author
Pen name
Alisa Zinov'yevnaRosenbaum
Ayn Rand
Mary Ann Evans
George Elliot
Eric Arthur Blair
Gorge Orwell
Agatha Christie:
Mary Westmacott
C. S. Lewis:
NW CLERK
William Sydney Porter
O henry
Hector Hugh Munro:
saki
François-Marie Arouet
Voltaire
Charlotte Brontë
Currer bell
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Dr. Suess

26. ROAD TO THE FINISH
Fifteen Questions
 First 5 have 5 points each
 Next 5 have 10 points each
 Last 5 have15 points each!
 U have one bonus card: which doubles the points
 Lose ur bonus card once u answer wrong on the
question
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27. QUESTION 1
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The last survivor who returned home
to tell the tale. Id the story.

28. ANSWER 1: PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

29. QUESTION 2
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Connect to a comic company. Exhaustive list.

30. ANSWER 2
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AmarChitraKathaSpecial Issues

31. QUESTION 3

32. ANSWER 3
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Tale of two cities

33. QUESTION 4
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Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and
psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case
gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal
cost: the more he delves into the young model's
complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he
gets to terrible danger . . .
A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere
of London - from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the
backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho „X' is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike,
this is the acclaimed first crime novel by Y recently
found out to be Z.

34. ROBERT GALBRAITH
J.K. ROWLING

35. QUESTION 5
1 In Edgar Allan Poe‟s 1838 story , three ship wreck
survivors kill and eat the fourth man.
 2. In 1884 , three real life survivors conspire and kill
the fourth compnaion.
 3. In Ang Lee‟s 2012 movie, a tiger and a teenager
are the only survivors of a ship wreck. The tiger
tries to kill and eat but the boy survives.
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Three stories and a common link.
 It is a specific 2 –word link.
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36. ANSWER
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Richard Parker

37. QUESTION 6

38. ANSWER 6

39. 7“AMUSE ME!”
“VERY WELL, SIR”

40. ANSWER 7

41. 8. “FANTASY FOR GROWN UPS”
X was selected as one of 2011 Time 100 list of most
influential people.
 X's work has been described by the Los Angeles
Times as having "complex story lines, fascinating
characters, great dialogue, perfect pacing",while the
New York Times sees it as "fantasy for grown ups“
 It goes beyond princely control
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42. QUESTION 8
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George R.R. Martin

43. 33. TELLING TALES
Her daughter
X won the
2006 Man
Booker Prize
for her novel
Y. Identify X,Y.

44. ANSWER 9
Kiran desai
 Inheritance of Loss
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45. QUESTION 10
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Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The
God Delusion (2006) to X, writing on his death that
"Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a
luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino
have lost a gallant defender."

46. DOUGLAS ADAMS

47. 11
Rustichello da Pisa, also known as Rusticiano and
Rustigielo (fl. late 13th century), was an Italian
romance writer
 Rustichello had written a work in French known as
the Roman de Roi Artus (Romance of King Arthur)
or simply the Compilation, derived from a book in
the possession of Edward I of England, who passed
through Italy on his way to fight in the Eighth
Crusade in 1270-1274. The Compilation contains
an interpolation of the Palamedes, a nowfragmentary prose account of Arthur's Saracen
knight Palamedes and the history of the Round
Table
 But Best known for ?
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48. ANSWER
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11**
Rustichello da Pisa was best known for cowriting
Marco Polo's autobiography while they were in
prison together in Genoa.

49. 12. AUTHOR AND CONNECT

50. ANSWER12
Charles Dickens
 HG Wells
 Ernest Hemingway
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Connect- Last words

52. ANSWER 14
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Children's books

53. QUESTION 15
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Motives for a crime in a recent book. Id the book and
author.
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Motive 1: Caused by a ghost out for revenge, rather
than Mahatma Gandhi.
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Motive 2: Protection of younger sister, who killed a
man who attempted to rape her, with rapist„s gun.
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Motive 3: Larry Page wanted to travel to India to get
married, only to discover that he has regularly been
scammed.
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Motive 4: Desire to marry sister of the deceased.
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Motive 5: Recovery of an idol.
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Motive 6: Problems caused by victim being alive.

54. ANSWER 15

55. QUESTION 16
55. Dr. Joseph Bell was a doctor in Victorian
England. He had a habit of asking his patients a lot
of questions about themselves, as well as making
observations regarding them.
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He served as an inspiration for one of his students
to create a famous character. Who was the
student? Also, which character was inspired by Dr.
Bell?
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56. ITS NOT COMPLETE WITH OUT HIM!!!

57. JALDI 5 AT THE END:
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„Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
In Four Parts. By „Lemmuel X‟, First a Surgeon, and
then a Captain of Several Ships.‟ Identify „X‟ and
the name this book is better known as

58. 
: Gulliver's Travels

59. ALL THREE FOR 15
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Which book, by which controversial author is known
as the „booker of bookers‟
What is L. Frank Baum's most famous story ( which
features Dorothy)?
 In which Tennessee Williams play do you meet Big
Daddy ?
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60. ANSWERS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 Wizard of Oz
 Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie
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61. 3#
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Connect the following poets to one particular
movement
William Wordsworth
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 George Gordon, Lord Byron
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
 John Keats
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62. ANSWERS
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The most famous poets of the Romantic Movement

63. PENULTIMATE
. Id the book.
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OR:
  the author AND the film the book inspired.
Id
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64. THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS
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The inspiration of this car was from a series of racing
cars built by Count Louis Zborowskiin the early 1920s at
HighamPark. The cars were so called because of the
sound(s) they used to make. _____1 was bought by the
sons of Sir Author Conan Doyle. Id the car and the
author which made it famous.

65. WE END WITH A BANG!!!!