Language and Literature BA & A Week 2018

EASY ROUND

1. Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?

A. The Railway Children

B. Winnie the Poo
C. Jungle book
D. Peter Pan

Explanation: Peter Pan is the book with the nation's favorite opening line is 'All children, except
one grew up'.

2. What part of speech is "sarcasm", meaning "cutting and reproachful language"?

A. Noun
B. Adjective
C. Verb
D. Adverb

3. Who acts as Pinocchio's conscience in the 1940 animated classic "Pinocchio"?

A. Gepetto
B. Honest John
C. Cleo
D. Jiminy Cricket

4. Who was Hannibal Hamlin?

A. A character in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. A character on the TV series The A Team
C. A vice president under Abraham Lincoln.
D. The Pied Piper" of a children's story

5. The last letter of the Greek alphabet is what?

A. alpha
B. omega
C. upsilon
D. zeta

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AVERAGE ROUND

6. What kind of note are you writing when you write a "bread-and-butter" note?

A. I'm sorry
B. Thank you
C. We've moved
D. You're invited for dinner

7. In the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, what was the name that Gelert
Grindelwald, assumed?
A. Percival Graves
B. Ignotus Peverel
C. James Boot
D. Credence Mayflower

8. In Greek mythology, what was the name of the nymph, punished by the god Hera into only
being able to repeat the words of others?

Echo

9. The longest isogram in which all the letters are in alphabetical order is aegilops. What is an
aegilops?
A. A hair in the ear or nose
B. A genus known as goat grass
C. A lozenge-shaped shield
D. A rhetorical device

A genus known as goat grass. There are approximately 23 species and numerous subspecies in
the genus.

10. Who are the men in the nursery rhyme that begins, "Rub-a-dub-db / Three men in a tub."
A. Solomon Grundy's children
B. the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
C. the three musketeers
D. three men of Gotham

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DIFFICULT ROUND

11. What literary awards of the Philippines have been termed by the Manila Standard as the Pulitzer
Prize of the Philippines although, unlike the nominations for the Pulitzers, entries to these
awards competitions have to be previously unpublished pieces?

The Palanca Awards or the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. The
Palanca Awards, organized by the Carlos Palanca, is one of the Philippines most long-
running awards. It was established in 1950 to inspire Filipino writers to improve their
literary works. In 2009, it added a category for poetry for children in both Filipino and
English.

12. What literary device is employed by a novelist when in the middle of the character’s dilemmas,
the protagonist is suddenly led to find a solution through a divine intervention?

 Deus ex Machina. Deus ex Machina is a rather debatable and often criticized form of
literary device. It refers to the incidence where an implausible concept or character is
brought into the story in order to make the conflict in the story resolve and to bring
about a pleasing solution. The use of Deus ex Machina is seldom recommended as it is
seen to be the mark of a poor plot that the writer needs to resort to random,
insupportable and unbelievable twists and turns to reach the end of the story.

13. To use a milder more polite expression than one which is blunt is referred to as a/an?

Euphemism

14. "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" is a line from what?
A. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
B. Beckett's Waiting for Godot
C. Voltaire's Candide
D. none of the above

15. What do we call a phrase that combines two contradictory words--such as pretty ugly, jumbo
shrimp or unbiased opinion?

An oxymoron.

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CLINCHER ROUND

16. What was the first science-fiction novel?

Answer: Frankenstein.
The first true science-fiction work was Frankenstein (1818), by English author Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley. The novel deals with the ability of science to create a new species of life.

17. Which character from Greek mythology figures in the title of Frankenstein?

Answer: Prometheus.
Mary Shelley’s novel is called Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus. In mythology,
Prometheus was a Greek who stole fire from the gods.

18. In the movie The Wizard of Oz Dorothy’s shoes are red, but what colour are they in the book?
A. Silver
B. Red
C. Gold

19. What letter gets the fewest words in most dictionaries? X

20. Of these four poets, which one was male.

A. Emily Dickinson
B. Joyce Kilmer
C. Amy Lowell
D. Alice Duer Miller

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