Literary Quiz in English on the occasion of World Literacy Day in Delhi Public School, Vijayawada. For classes 9 to 12. Quiz on books and authors, ancient and contemporary.

1. LITERARY QUIZ

2. WELCOME TO
INTER CBSE
ENGLISH LITERARY QUIZ

3. 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.

4. • 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.

5. ROUND-1
RECALL
&
ANSWER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. ROUND-2
WHO AM I ?

23. ROUND-3
FAMOUS QUOTES

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

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

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

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

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

29. I wandered lonely as a cloud
That flows on high o’er vales
and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils....

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

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

32. ROUND-4
RAPID FIRE