TRIVIAL

PURSUIT
QUIZ BEE
EASY CATEGORY
(1 point)
 1. What part of speech describes a
noun?
a. Adjective
b. Adverb
c. Preposition
A. ADJECTIVE
2. Which word is stressed on the second
syllable?
a. Nation
b. Rescue
c. Himself
C. HIMSELF
 3. “She was a phantom of delight.”
What figure of speech is used in the
sentence?
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole
B. METAPHOR
 4. This element of literature is the
sequence of events in the storyline?
a. Plot
b. Setting
c. Characters
A. PLOT
 5. Which of the following does not
belong to Philippine Literature?
a. The Necklace
b. Epic of Lam-Ang
c. Florante at Laura
A. THE NECKLACE
 6. Who is the protagonist in Jose
Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere?
a. Crisostomo Ibarra
b. Maria Clara
c. Padre Damaso
A. CRISOSTOMO IBARRA
 7. Which of the following words is
synonymous with compiled?
a. Indigenous
b. Gathered
c. Ancestors
B. GATHERED
8. What describes the pronoun repeated
in the sentence?
a. Agreement
b. Accident
c. Antecedent
C. ANTECEDENT
 9. They are common sayings or phrases
which are understood by many whose
meaning is different from its literal words?
a. Phrasing
b. Graphic Organizer
c. Idiomatic expressions
C. IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
 10. Which of the following is a
descriptive adjective?
a. Two roses
b. Red roses
c. Those roses
B. RED ROSES
AVERAGE CATEGORY
(3 points)
 1. Which character died at the end
of Iliad?
a. Achilles
b. Odysseus
c. Menelaus
A. ACHILLES
 2. The Tale of Genji is written by
_________.
a. Sayanori
b. Murasaki
c. Ryunosuki
B. MURASAKI
 3. Which poem is made of 14 lines?
a. Ode
b. Sonnet
c. Elegy
B. SONNET
 4. What figure of speech uses
exaggerated statements?
a. Personification
b. Hyperbole
c. Metonymy
B. HYPERBOLE
 5. Who is the author of the short
story entitled “How My Brother Leon
Brought Home a Wife”?
a. Manuel Arguilla
b. Paz Benitez
c. NVM Gonzales
A. MANUEL ARGUILLA
 6. The poem “The Rhodora” is
written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Rhodora is what kind of object?
a. Bird
b. Fruit
c. flower
C. FLOWER
 7. “I enjoy reading Martin Luther
King.” What figure of speech was
used?”
a. Synecdoche
b. Metonymy
c. Oxymoron
B. METONYMY
 8. Identify the meaning of the
underlined idiomatic expression. The
audience was all ears to the speaker.
a. Covering both ears
b. Making a compliment
c. Listening very attentively
C. LISTENING VERY
ATTENTIVELY
 9. Which poet wrote the famous
poem “The Road Not Taken?”
a. Jose Garcia Villa
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. Robert Frost
C. ROBERT FROST
 10. 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
A. EXHILARATED
DIFFICULT CATEGORY
(5 points)
1. Which of the following is written
by Geoffrey Chaucer?
a. The Divine Comedy
b. The Song of Roland
c. The Canterbury Tales
C. THE CANTERBURY TALES
 2. When the pronouns I, We, Us, etc. are
used in narrating the story, what is the
perspective or the Point-Of-View?

a. First Person POV

b. Third Person POV Omniscient
c. Third Person POV Limited
A. FIRST PERSON POV
 3. Which poem laments the dead?
a. Ode
b. Elegy
c. Satire
B. ELEGY
 4. What do you call a collection of
literary pieces?
a. Anthology
b. Biography
c. Diary
A. ANTHOLOGY
 5. 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
b. France
c. India
B. FRANCE
CLINCHE
1. What does the acronym CCTV
mean?
CLOSED-CIRCUIT
TELEVISION
2. What is the longest English word?
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