ENGLISH QUIZ BEE

A.Y. 2017 – 2018

GRADES 7 - 12
GUIDELINES & MECHANICS
• The coverage of the quiz bee includes English
subject only.
• There will be three (3) components in the
competition namely: LAX ROUND, SERIOUS
ROUND and the FUNNY ROUND.
GUIDELINES & MECHANICS
• The LAX ROUND has ten (10) questions worth 2
points, the SERIOUS ROUND has eight (8) questions
worth 3 points and the FUNNY ROUND has ten (10)
questions worth 5 points.
• The questions will be read by the quizmaster twice.
GUIDELINES & MECHANICS
• After the second (2nd) reading, the Quizmaster
shall say “go”, and the participants can write
their answers.
• Lax round has 20 seconds time limit; Serious
round with 20 seconds, and Funny round with 30
seconds.
GUIDELINES & MECHANICS
• In case of deadlock, a clincher question shall be
provided and the participant to first give the
answer wins.
• The participant with the highest point shall be
declared as the winner.
LAX ROUND
1. Who was the author of the famous
storybook 'Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland'?
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. John Keats
C. Lewis Carroll
D. H.G. Wells
C. LEWIS CARROLL
2. Who is the author of the story
“Footnote to Youth?”
A. Loreto Paras-Sulit
B. Jose Garcia Villa
C. N.V.M. Gonzalez
D. Estrella D. Alfon
B. JOSE GARCIA VILLA
3. The words like while, on the other
hand, however, and nevertheless are
examples of what kind of transitions?
A. Additive transitions
B. Adversative transitions
C. Causal transitions
D. Sequential transitions
B. ADVERSATIVE
TRANSITIONS
4. If you get 10/10 on this quiz, you may feel
______! Which of the words below will
correctly fill in the blank?
A. exhilarated
B. exhillerated
C. exhilerated
D. exhillarated
A. EXHILARATED
5. How many lines does a sonnet have?

A. 10
B. 12
C. 14
D. 16
C. 14
6. The poem “The Rhodora” is written by
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rhodora is what
kind of object?
A. bird
B. fruit
C. flower
D. tree
C. FLOWER
7. “I enjoy reading Martin Luther King.”
What figure of speech was used?
A. Synecdoche
B. Metonymy
C. Oxymoron
D. Onomatopoeia
C. METONYMY
8. The poem Africa is written by David Diop. He
is an African by blood but doesn’t know much
about the place because he was born in what
country?
A. England C. India
B. France D. Afghanistan
B. FRANCE
9. Which poet wrote the famous poem “The
Road Not Taken?”
A. Jose Garcia Villa
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Robert Frost
D. William Shakespeare
C. ROBERT FROST
10. In the Magindanao epic Indarapatra and
Sulayman, what did Indarapatra give Sulayman
before he sets off to battle?
A. Magic hat
B. Magic ring
C. Magic pen
D. Magic towel
B. MAGIC RING
SERIOUS ROUND
1. Stephen King wrote which of these book
series?
A. The Railway Series
B. The Dark Tower
C. The Hunger Games Series
D. Goosebumps
B. THE DARK TOWER
2. Who wrote the classic children's fiction
novel “The Jungle Book”?
A. E.B. White
B. Beatrix Potter
C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Mark Twain
C. RUDYARD KIPLING
3. What does the acronym CCTV mean?
CLOSED-CIRCUIT
TELEVISION
4. It is a form of poetry in five-line, predominantly
anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme
(AABBA), often humorous and sometimes
obscene.
A. Haiku C. Limerick
B. Tanka D. Terza Rima
C. LIMERICK
5. It is a speech or piece of writing that praises
someone or something highly, typically someone
who has just died.

A. Ode C. Limerick
B. Eulogy D. Dedication
B. EULOGY
6. Tina is learning her ABC's in preschool.
What figure of speech was used?

A. Metonymy C. Pun
B. Synecdoche D. Understatement
B. SYNECDOCHE
7. What is the longest English word?
pneumonoultramicroscopi
csilicovolcanoconiosis
8. Spell out the word that the teacher
will say.
passive acceptance or
submission; obedience,
submissiveness
ACQUIESCENCE
FUNNY ROUND
1. What did the baby corn
say to its mother?
Where’s pop corn? :P
2.
2. What
Where did
dothe
salads
babytry
corn
on
say
clothes?
to its mother?
The dressing room :D
2.
3. What
What did
do you
the baby
call a corn
bear
say
withtono
itsteeth?
mother?
A gummy bear :P
4. Why can’t someone living
2. What did the baby corn
in Maine be buried in
say to its mother?
Florida?
Because he’s still living
:D
5. A man is pushing his car
2.
along,
Whatand
did when
the baby
he comes
corn
say
to ato
hotel
its mother?
he shouts, “I’m
bankrupt!” Why?
Because he’s playing
Monopoly :D
6. What can run, but never
2. What did the baby corn
walks? Has a mouth, but
say to its mother?
never talks? Has a head, but
never weeps? Has a bed, but
never sleeps?
A river 
7. The man who made it
2. What did
doesn’t theit.baby
want corn
The man
say
whotobought
its mother?
it doesn’t need
it. The man who needs it
doesn’t know it. What am I
talking about?
A coffin 
2. What did the baby corn
8. How many of each
say to its mother? species
did Moses take on the ark
with him?
None, Moses wasn't on
the ark. Noah was.
9. A man is trapped in a room. The room has
2. What did the baby corn
only two possible exits: two doors. Through
the first door there is a room constructed from
say to its mother?
magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun
instantly fries anything or anyone that enters.
Through the second door there is a fire-
breathing dragon. How does the man
escape?
He waits until night time
and then goes through
the first door.
10. A woman is sitting in her hotel room when
2. What did the baby corn
there is a knock at the door. She opened the
door to see a man whom she had never seen
say to its mother?
before. He said "oh I'm sorry, I have made a
mistake, I thought this was my room." He then
went down the corridor and in the elevator. The
woman went back into her room and phoned
security. What made the woman so suspicious
of the man?
You don't knock on your
own hotel door and the
man did.
WELL
DONE!