Interhouse Jeopardy - English Week

Unscrambled

100

HACT PGT

Chat GPT

200

INOTON

Notion

300

YTEONKE

Keynote

400

STYOFIP

Spotify

500

ELERBA

BeReal

Brain Teasers

100

What is the plural of fish?

Fish

200

How many letters are in the alphabet?

There are 11 letters in the word 'ALPHABET'

300

The mother of your father.

Paternal Grandmother

400

Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Mt. Everest

500

What goes all the way around the world, but stays in the corner?

A stamp

Riddles

100

This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it more.

Your name

200

You're in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

The match

300

I have seas without water, coasts without sand, towns without people, and mountains without land. What am I?

A map

400

You see a boat filled with people. It has not capsized, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?

Everyone on the boat is married

500

Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

On its side, the number 8 looks like an infinity symbol. Cut in half, the number 8 becomes two zeros.

Literary History

100

People of which religion consider ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ as their sacred text?

Hinduism

200

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which Children’s book?

Alice in Wonderland

300

Who set up the printing press in 1476?

Caxton

400

Who was the first author to come up with the term 'cliffhanger'?

Thomas Hardy

500

Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and __________?

King Lear

Trivia

100

What kind of dog is white with small black spots all over?

Dalmatian 

200

TRUE OR FALSE - The color orange is named after the fruit.

True

300

Which restaurant's mascot is a clown?

McDonald's

400

What is Cynophobia the fear of?

Dogs

500

What item is the werewolf most afraid of?

Silver