Answers to the prelim quiz followed by the final round.

1. LSD Pot Pourri
PRELIMS
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm

2. LSD PoT POurri
Answers + Final
Round

3. ANSWERS TO PRELIMS
▸Please exchange papers to cross-verify your answers.
▸Scoring will be specified on the paper and on the slides.
▸Top 6 Teams qualify to the next round.
▸We consider correct spellings essential for full credit.

4. Word of the month
1 Jarringly 7 Jubilant
2 Lifeboatmen 8 Augmentable
3 Amateur 9 Sceptre
4 Appropriate 10 Octogenarian
5 Metaphysics 11 Turnover
6 Junction 12 Demarcate
+1 for every correct answer, 0 otherwise.
An additional +6 beyond the points mentioned for getting any six of the twelve months.
A further additional +6 beyond the points mentioned for getting all of the twelve right.
(24 points)

5. up and down words
Block A Block B Block C
Long Hospital Runway
Hair Bed Model
Color Size Airplace
Guard Up Pilot
Dog North Light
Days Star Show
You get +1 for figuring out each individual word. Repetitions do not count twice.
You get an additional +2 if you solve the entirety of Block A or Block B.
You get a further additional +6 if you can solve Block C entirely.
(26 points)

6. REBUS
+2 points each.
▸Skinny Dipping
▸Get your Act Together
▸Robinhood
▸I am surrounded by enemies. (variants permitted)
▸Pirate
▸Tenure

7. FIll er Up: Anagrams
For Question 1 and 2,
You get 1 point for getting a blank, and 4 points if you get all four blanks (8 points each)
For Question 3,
You get 2 points for getting a blank, and 4 points if you get all four blanks. (14 points)
1.drapes, spread, rasped, spared.
2.races, acres, cares, scare.
3.integral, alerting, altering, relating, triangle.

8. Palindromes
+4 for every correct answer.
1.Senile Felines.
2.Never odd or even.
3.Lonely Tylenol.
4.Cain: A Maniac
5.Some men interpret nine memos.
6.Adam, I’m Ada!
7.Aibohphobia

9. Guess the
Personality

10. rules
▸ 2 Rounds of Questions: each with a specific theme. No pounces. One team and
one team alone has a go at the questions.
▸ You have 60 seconds to ask Y/N Questions (any number) to your team member.
▸ +20 for a correct guess, 0 otherwise.
▸ Each team will have 2 members - one member facing this slide and the other,
who will be guessing, facing the board.
▸ You may skip a question, but then you must take the next question.

11. Movie characters
All English films.

12. Rocky Balboa
Rocky

13. Willy wonka
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

14. Spartacus
Spartacus

15. oskar schindler
Schindler’s List

16. Darth Vader
Star Wars

17. mia thermopolis
The Princess Diaries.

18. mia thermopolis
The Princess Diaries.
+10 Bonus if you can guess the full name of
this character.

19. dr. hannibal lecter
Silence of the Lambs

20. mary jane
Spiderman

21. John Nash
A Beautiful Mind

22. tyler durden
Fight Club

23. vito corleone
The Godfather

24. Philosophers

25. rene descartes

26. Confucius

27. chanakya

28. voltaire

29. plato

30. jean-jacques rousseau

31. gautam buddha

32. karl marx

33. francis bacon

34. friedrich nietzsche

35. bertrand russell

36. immanuel kant

37. RoUND 2 PART 1
GARDEN PATH SENTENCES

38. WHAT’S TO BE DONE?
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Give me the meaning.
You have 15 seconds.

39. Question 1
The
complex
houses
married
and
single
soldiers
and
their
families

40. Question 2
The
sour
drink
from
the
ocean

41. Question 3
Time flies
like an arrow;
fruit flies like a banana

42. Question 4
The
cotton
clothing
is
made
of
grows
in
Mississippi

43. Question 5
The tycoon sold
the offshore oil
tracts for a
lot of money
wanted to kill JR.

44. Question 6
The
government
plans
to
raise
taxes
were
defeated

45. Round 2 Part 2
JUMBLE GARDEN PATH.

46. WHAT’S TO BE DONE?
Use the words on the screen to form a
grammatically correct sentence
You have 90 seconds.
+10 for correct (In-turn)
+10 for correct answer, -10 incorrect. (Pounce)

47. Example Question

48. Question 1
BARN past
the
HORSE
RACED the
fell

49. Question 2
painted CRACKS
WE with
wall THE

50. Question 3
The
old
man
the
BOAT

51. Question 4
ACCUMULATES
PEOPLE
EAT fat

52. Question 5
wasted
eats
food when
gets Mike

53. Question 6
noisy I
children are
her
convinced

54. ROUND 3
PICTIONARY

55. RULES FOR PICTIONARY
▸Your card has 6 words which you must make your team
guess in 2 minutes.
▸Each successful guess earns the team 4 points.
▸The words marked with an asterisk are the bonus
questions which fetch 2 extra points.

56. final round

57. quick rules
Pounce if you know the answer. No rotation.
+20 points for the correct answer, -20 for the wrong one.
2 Questions.
Just answer the questions on the next slides.
30 seconds per question.

58. What is common between these 3 sentences?
Turgid saxophones blew over Mick's jazzy quaff.
Playing jazz vibe chords quickly excites my wife.
Exquisite farm wench gives body jolt to prize stinker.

59. Answer
All of the above sentences are pangrams i.e. sentences that use all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Trivia:
Pangramists have long sought the perfect pangram – a 26-letter sentence containing every letter of the
alphabet exactly once – with varying success.
One of the best known is:
Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.

60. What peculiarity is in the following sentence?
He looked out at the streets and it was pouring with rain.
The vicar looked at the damned and declared there was no
hope in his soul.
All the snake does is hiss and leer.

61. Answer
All of these sentences end in spoonerisms.
roaring with pain (pouring with rain)
hope in his soul (soap in his hole)
Hiss and leer (listen here)