Intra-Hostel Literary Competition

[Arnav Choudhry]

Hello everybody!

I hope your quizzes are going very well :) To chill off the quiz heat, we present to you the online Intra-Hostel Literary Competition consisting of multiple short rounds of various types like Rebus, Anagrams , Mini-Quizzes and the like (to know more about these click on them). This will run for the duration of the month of October.

This would be solved in a cumulative point format and whoever gets the highest points in the end gets to win exciting prizes (gift vouchers/books, etc.)as well as mental satisfaction :P Good and enthusiastic performers of separate categories inside the competition also to win prizes! 

Send in your entries to taptil...@gmail.com, with your Answer(s), Name, Room No., and find the leader board here. In case of queries please contact Madhumohan (9003107623) or me (9789803630).

Regards

Arnav Choudhry

Literary Secretary,

Tapti Hostel

[Arnav Choudhry]

We have "A Rags Man"'s game today! Okay so anagrams are a word or phrase, the letters of which can be rearranged into a different word or phrase. For those uninitiated here are some tips to help you get started:

• Circle: Attempt to place the letters randomly into a circular pattern. This breaks up the original order and any potentially misleading sound combinations and also makes it easier to see all the different letter-groupings that you might be able to connect together.
  
• Suffix and Prefix: Search for common suffixes and prefixes like -ING, -NESS, -LY, -ISM, -ED, -ER, -RY, -OUS, -MENT or –TION. Or you might look for prefixes such as UN- , DIS-, SUB-, RE-, DE-, IN-, AB-, AD- or EX-, and remove them from the mix.
• Common and Uncommon Pairings: Look for letters that frequently go together and try combining them, like Q usually followed by U,or H (unless it is at the start of a word) will tend to follow one of the letters C, G, P, S, T or W. Also, eliminate any unlikely pairings of letters, those that do not tend to appear next to each other in most English words.
  
• Consonant and Vowel Combination: When the number of vowels is small, it is more than likely that consonant combinations will occur. So it helps to look out for consonant pairs such as PR-, SP- etc or even combinations of three consonants such STR- and -GHT. On the other hand, when the number of vowels is relatively large, we should be looking for common vowel combinations such as IE, EA, OU etc or even triples such as IOU (often followed by a letter S).  Three vowel combinations are relatively uncommon, however, so it might be worth learning some of the words that contain them (for example:  BEAUTY and GAIETY)
  

These are some starting points, but obviously the more you solve the more you know :) So getting on with it, please find attached today's questions, albeit with a twist. Happy Solving!

1 point per answer

Regards

Arnav Choudhry

LitSec

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Arnav Choudhry <darn...@gmail.com> wrote:

The first one Coming up is Rebus!

Now according to Wikipedia: "A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words" A formal way to say that these are pictures representing a word or a phrase. But how do you go about solving these? Some of the common pointers are:

• Word Position: The position of the word relative to other words or the box is a clue to the answer. Sometimes, the word may be one inside another.
• Color: If the word or part of the word is printed is some color other than black the color is probably relevant to the puzzle.
• Size: Words that are written unusually large or unusually small are probably tied to the puzzle answer.
• Direction: The direction that a word is oriented can provide clues as well.
• Quantity and Numbers: There are many puzzles that depend on the number of times a certain word appears in the puzzle. This can denote the use of that number or simply that the word should be plural.
• Accentuated: Some of the time when a word appears in a different text, italicized, or other wise made to appear different, special attention should be paid to that word in relation to the other words.
• Missing Letters: Letters will intentionally be left out of some puzzles.
• Graphical: Many puzzles have graphics added to the words to imply clues.

Courtesy and for examples of above visit: http://www.puzzlesoup.com/wordplay/howtoplay/howtosolve.htm

Equipped with the tools for solving the above, please find attached the rebus puzzle for today! Happy Solving!

Regards

Arnav Choudhry

LitSec

[Arnav Choudhry]

As graciously pointed out by Pavan, there is a correction: The last one would be dyitient 

[Arnav Choudhry]

The first one Coming up is Rebus!

Now according to Wikipedia: "A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words" A formal way to say that these are pictures representing a word or a phrase. But how do you go about solving these? Some of the common pointers are:

• Word Position: The position of the word relative to other words or the box is a clue to the answer. Sometimes, the word may be one inside another.
• Color: If the word or part of the word is printed is some color other than black the color is probably relevant to the puzzle.
• Size: Words that are written unusually large or unusually small are probably tied to the puzzle answer.
• Direction: The direction that a word is oriented can provide clues as well.
• Quantity and Numbers: There are many puzzles that depend on the number of times a certain word appears in the puzzle. This can denote the use of that number or simply that the word should be plural.
• Accentuated: Some of the time when a word appears in a different text, italicized, or other wise made to appear different, special attention should be paid to that word in relation to the other words.
• Missing Letters: Letters will intentionally be left out of some puzzles.
• Graphical: Many puzzles have graphics added to the words to imply clues.

Courtesy and for examples of above visit: http://www.puzzlesoup.com/wordplay/howtoplay/howtosolve.htm

Equipped with the tools for solving the above, please find attached the rebus puzzle for today! Happy Solving!

Regards

Arnav Choudhry

LitSec

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Arnav Choudhry <darn...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Arnav Choudhry]

Here is something to think about: The origin of this word has an interesting myth behind it. It was supposedly due to an Irishman named James Daly, who did this as part of a bet to create and popularize a new word in 24 hours. What's the good word?

(Courtesy: Buzzer Quiz)

SpEnt quiz is short for sports-entertainment quiz, and is organized by the IITM Quiz Club for both LitSoc and Saarang. It covers questions from the area's as indicated by it's title. Please find attached the questions for today. General Rules:

1. NO Google-ing. Please maintain the spirit of the game and play it truthfully.
2. Each person gets only one entry. And the time limit for this is till midnight tonight.
3. Points for a correct reply are +2, with no negative marking.
4. Only a single (first) answer would be considered in case of writing multiple options or all possible answers for a question.
5. No extra points for answering the opening question of this mail.

Happy Quizzing!!

Regards

Arnav Choudhry

LitSec

[Arnav Choudhry]

LitSoc What's The Good Word on 21st October!! 6PM CRC101 Please do attend!!

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[Arnav Choudhry]

Sorry for the delay. Had gone home for Diwali! :) But here are the answers for the last quiz conducted:

1. Micheal Jackson and the moonwalk

2. Lord Brabourne

3. Pirates from Asterix

4. Wrong spelling of Victoria in hindi on David Beckam's tattoo

5. Roy Keane leaving 2002 WC camp, scottish dolphin god = Fergie

6. Number of kills by Rambo

7. Brandi Chastain parody/Tanya harding nancy kerrigan scandal/Miracle on ice/Jana novotna crying on royal shoulders/Monica seles stabbing = Espn sporting moments of the century

8. Liverpool winning champions league and England winning Ashes <Question might be wrong/>

9. Events portrayed in the life of Forrest Gump

10. Miroslava "Mirka" Federer (born Miroslava Vavrinec)

India Quiz on Tuesday (tomorrow), sample questions would be up soon as part of this competition and also people otherwise interested please mail me to get more questions from previous years' India Quizzes.