What’s the good word

1. WHAT’S THE GOOD
WORD?

2. NAME THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF
THESE PHRASES
•A plague on both your houses
•All that glitters is not gold
•Love is blind
•Wild goose chase
•All's well that ends well
•All the world's a stage, and all the men and women
merely players
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3. ANSWER
William
Shakespeare
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4. GUESS THE PHRASE
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5. ANSWER
Between a rock and a hard place
(Being faced with two difficult choices)
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6. CONNECT
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7. ANSWER
Charles
Dickens
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8. WHO?
• He was an Indian writer, best known for his
works set in a fictional South Indian town.
• His works include Swami and Friends, The
Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher.
• In 2011, The Indian Railways renamed the
Yesvantpur-Mysore Express, in his honour,
after the fictitious town created by the writer.
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9. ANSWER
R.K.Narayan
(Malgudi Express)
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10. • X is a self-employed taxi driver and loves
riding around his town. His best friend is old,
wise and has big ears. His constant companion
and household pet is the exuberant Bumpy
dog. He often gets into trouble because Sly
and Gobbo have played a trick on him. He also
has many run-ins with the local constable.
• X is a fictional character written by the world
famous author Y.
IDENTIFY X AND Y
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11. ANSWER
X – Noddy
Y – Enid Blyton
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12. CONNECT
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13. ANSWER
Tintin
Written by Herge
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14. WHAT IS X?
• The phrase X refers to an unpleasant situation
that continuously repeats, or seems to.
• It was first used in the military to indicate
unchanging, repetitive situations.
• X is the title of a very famous movie starring
Bill Murray as a weatherman who lives the
same day over and over again.
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15. ANSWER
Groundhog
Day
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16. GUESS THE PROVERBS
1. It is better to have a lesser but certain
advantage than the possibility of a greater
one that may come to nothing.
2. Those of similar taste congregate in groups.
3. The idea that something is easily forgotten or
dismissed as unimportant if it is not in our
direct view.
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17. ANSWER
1. It's better to have a lesser but certain advantage than
the possibility of a greater one that may come to
nothing.
 A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
2. Those of similar taste congregate in groups.
 Birds of a feather flock together.
3. The idea that something is easily forgotten or
dismissed as unimportant if it is not in our direct view.
 Out of sight, out of mind.
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18. WHAT IS X?
• “I came in with ‘X’ in 1835. X is coming again
next year and I expect to go out with it. It will
be the greatest disappointment of my life if I
don’t go out with X.”
• So said Mark Twain, and a few months later,
he died in his 76th year.
• What was Mark Twain talking about?
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19. ANSWER
Halley’s Comet
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20. WHAT IS X?
She's a X, pretty and bright with soft curls.
She's a X, a girl unlike unlike other girls.
She's a miracle, and I grant you
She'll enchant you at her sight.
She's a X, and she'll make your heart take flight.
She's fantastic, made of plastic.
Microchips here and there.
She's a X, brings love and laughter everywhere.
These are the lyrics to the theme song of which
popular TV show?
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21. ANSWER
Small
Wonder
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22. GUESS THE PHRASE
• In Greek mythology, when he was a baby, it was foretold
that he would die young. To prevent his death, his
mother Thetis took him to the River Styx and dipped his
body into the water. But his heel was not washed over
by the water of the magical river and he was later killed
by an arrow wound to his heel.
• The phrase means a deadly weakness in spite of overall
strength.
• Who is the Greek warrior and what is the phrase that
was coined?
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23. ANSWER
Achilles' Heel
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24. IDENTIFY X AND Y
• X is a dark-brown oddity with button eyes and
loose limbs.
• Although X is inanimate, Y pretends it’s real
and even buys it Christmas presents.
• X has been used as a dish cloth, a paint brush
and has been shrunk in the wash.
• X is also Y’s “pet” and has even won a pet
show.
• Y is the title character of a popular sitcom and
was played by Rowan Atkinson.
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25. ANSWER
X – Teddy
Y – Mr. Bean
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26. IDENTIFY X AND Y
• X is a novel by Y, written in Portuguese and is one
of the best-selling books in history.
• X follows the journey of a shepherd boy named
Santiago who goes to Egypt, after having a
recurring dream of finding treasure there.
• X is most famous for the quote “When you really
want something to happen, the whole universe
conspires so that your wish comes true".
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27. ANSWER
X – The Alchemist
Y – Paulo Coelho
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28. GUESS THE PROVERBS
1. There is hope, even in the worst of
circumstances.
2. It is polite, and possibly also advantageous,
to abide by the customs of a society when
one is a visitor.
3. Not everything that is shiny and
superficially attractive is valuable.
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29. ANSWER
1. There is hope, even in the worst of circumstances.
 The darkest hour is just before the dawn
2. It is polite, and possibly also advantageous, to abide by
the customs of a society when one is a visitor.
 When in Rome, do as the Romans do
3. Not everything that is shiny and superficially attractive is
valuable.
 All that glitters is not gold
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30. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS?
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31. ANSWER
• Star wars
• The hunger games
• Harry Potter
• Lord of the Rings
• Chronicles of Narnia
• Sherlock
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32. CONNECT
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33. ANSWER
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot, Miss
Marple, Tommy and
Tuppence are the
protagonists of her crime
novels.
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34. GUESS THE TV SHOW
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35. ANSWER
How I met
your mother
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36. IDENTIFY THE WORD
• A _________ is a writer who writes books,
articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are
officially credited to another person.
• For example, the purported authors of the Nancy
Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries, "Carolyn Keene"
and "Franklin W. Dixon", respectively, are actually
pseudonyms for a series of _________
• Mozart is an example of a well-known composer
who was paid to be a ________ to write music for
wealthy patrons.
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37. ANSWER
Ghost Writer
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38. IDENTIFY X
• X is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel
of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.
• The film was directed by David Fincher and
stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham
Carter. It has achieved cult status.
• The most famous quote of this book/movie is:
“Welcome to X. The first rule of X is: you do not talk
about X. The second rule of X is: you DO NOT talk
about X! ” – Tyler Durden
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39. ANSWER
Fight Club
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40. WHO?
• He is a lovable, though accident-prone,
redheaded, freckled 17-year-old.
• He lives in Riverdale, where he attends Riverdale
High School.
• He is passionate about his car, a 1916 Ford
Model T jalopy.
• He is the lead guitarist in his band, along with
his four friends.
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41. ANSWER
Archie
Andrews
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42. WHAT IS X?
• X is an automobile kept in a secret place
accessed through a hidden entrance.
• It is a gadget-laden car used for crime-fighting
activities.
• It is a cross between a Lamborghini and
a tank.
• It utilizes the prototype vehicle known as
the Tumbler designed by the Applied Sciences
Division as a bridging vehicle for the military.
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43. ANSWER
Batmobile
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44. WHAT?
• It is the longest poem ever written.
• The core story of the work is that of a dynastic
struggle for the throne.
• The origins of the text probably fall between
the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.
• It is recited by the sage Vaisampayana to the
King Janamejaya.
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45. ANSWER
Mahabharata
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46. WHO?
• Knowledge of Literature – nil.
• Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.
• Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.
• Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.
• Knowledge of Botany – Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons
generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
• Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from
each other. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their
colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
• Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.
• Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but unsystematic.
• Knowledge of Sensational Literature – Immense. He appears to know every detail of
every horror perpetrated in the century.
• Plays the violin well.
• Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.
• Has a good practical knowledge of British law.
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47. ANSWER
Sherlock
Holmes
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48. IDENTIFY X AND Y
• X is a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous
6 year old boy and was created by Bill Waterson.
• Y is his sardonic, stuffed friend who accompanies
X on his imaginary adventures, and his various
pranks against girls.
• X creates imaginary machines from a cardboard
box such as the Transmorgifier and a Time
machine.
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49. ANSWER
X – Calvin
Y – Hobbes
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50. TIE BREAKER #1
GUESS THE POEM AND POET
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.
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51. TIE BREAKER #1
GUESS THE POEM AND POET
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
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52. TIE BREAKER #2
WHO SAID IT?
• “I object to violence because when it
appears to do good, the good is only
temporary; the evil it does is
permanent.”
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53. TIE BREAKER #2
WHO SAID IT?
• “The stories we love best do live in us
forever.”
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