Pot Pourri - Assorted Puzzles on the English Language (Answers) + Round II

LSD Pot PourriPRELIMS

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm

LSD PoT POurri Answers + Final

Round

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.

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)

up and down words

Block A Block B Block CLong 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)

REBUS

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

FIll er Up: AnagramsFor 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.

Palindromes+4 for every correct answer.

1.Senile Felines.2.Never odd or even.3.Lonely Tylenol.4.Cain: A Maniac5.Some men interpret nine memos. 6.Adam, I’m Ada!7.Aibohphobia

Guess the Personality

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.

Movie charactersAll English films.

Rocky BalboaRocky

Willy wonkaWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

SpartacusSpartacus

oskar schindlerSchindler’s List

Darth VaderStar Wars

mia thermopolisThe Princess Diaries.

mia thermopolisThe Princess Diaries.

+10 Bonus if you can guess the full name of this character.

dr. hannibal lecterSilence of the Lambs

mary janeSpiderman

John NashA Beautiful Mind

tyler durdenFight Club

vito corleoneThe Godfather

Philosophers

rene descartes

Confucius

chanakya

voltaire

plato

jean-jacques rousseau

gautam buddha

karl marx

francis bacon

friedrich nietzsche

bertrand russell

immanuel kant

RoUND 2 PART 1GARDEN PATH SENTENCES

WHAT’S TO BE DONE?Is this sentence grammatically

correct?Give me the meaning.

You have 15 seconds.

Question 1

The complex

houses married

and single

soldiersand their

families

Question 2

The sour

drink from

the ocean

Question 3

Time flies like an arrow;

fruit flies like a banana

Question 4

The cotton

clothing is

made of

grows in Mississippi

Question 5

The tycoon sold the offshore oil

tracts for a lot of money

wanted to kill JR.

Question 6

The government

plans to

raise taxes

were defeated

Round 2 Part 2JUMBLE GARDEN PATH.

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)

Example Question

THEOLD

MAN

WHISTLINGTUNES

PIANOS

Question 1

BARN pastthe

HORSE RACED the

fell

Question 2

painted CRACKS WE with

wall THE

Question 3

The

oldman

the BOAT

Question 4

ACCUMULATES PEOPLE

EAT fat

Question 5

wastedeats

food when gets Mike

Question 6

noisy I

children are her

convinced

ROUND 3PICTIONARY

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.

final round

quick rulesPounce 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.

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.

AnswerAll 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.

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.

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)