Language and Literature quiz

Which idiom meaning idle

chatter, originated from the

fact that in the days before

refrigeration sailors used to

complain about eating salted

pork skin, which consisted

largely of fat?

• Big

  fat

• A fat lot

• Fat is in the fire

• Chew the fat

Which idiom meaning joking

or fooling with someone was

originally a method used by

thieves to trap pedestrians and rob them.

• Pull someone's leg

• Break a leg

• Don't have a leg to stand on

• On his or her last legs

What animal if let out, means

revealing a secret, according to

a popular idiom?

• Dog

• Cat

• Pony

• Rat

According to popular belief,

which idiom meaning to refuse

to acknowledge a known truth,

originated from the fact that

Horatio Nelson was blind in one eye?

• Turn a blind eye

• As blind as a bat

• Blind date

• Blind alley

Which publishing house had

brought out the first nine books

written by Bhagat since his

debut in 2004?

• Penguin Books India

• Rupa Publications

• Zubaan

• Bloomsbury Publishing India

For which 2013 film did Chetan

Bhagat win the Filmfare award

for Best Screenplay?

• Kai Po Che!

• 2 States

• 3 Idiots

• Godan

Published in 2004, which was

Chetan Bhagat's first novel?

• One Night @ The Call Centre

• The Girl in Room 105

• The 3 Mistakes of My Life

• Five Point Someone

Identify the figure of speech

used in the following sentence

from John Keats' 'To Autumn':

'Conspiring with him how to

load and bless

With fruit the vines that round

the thatch-eves run.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Identify the figure of speech

used in the following line from

Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': 'I am

cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound

in To saucy doubts and fears'

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Which figure of speech has

words that imitate a natural

sound, like buzz or boom?

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole