The Great Big Literacy Quiz

1) Name the following punctuation mark ?

2) Would you put a capital letter after a comma? Yes or no?

3) Name the following actor:

4) Name one film this actress has appeared in.

5) Which is the correct spelling? A) environment B) enviroment C) invirament D) inviroment

6) Which is the correct use of apostrophe? A) Its almost snowing! B) It’s almost snowing! C) Its’ almost snowing!

7) Name 2 football teams with the letter ‘o’ in their titles.

8) Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ album gained him how many Grammy awards? A) Three B) Eight C) Twenty

9)Which of the following is the correct definition of a homophone? A) A word that has more than five letters. B) Words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. C) Words that are abbreviated.

10) Is the following sign correct?

A) An exclamation mark B) A comma C) A question mark 11) What is missing in the following sentence? How much are the mince pies. A) An exclamation mark B) A comma C) A question mark

12) How many hearts does an octopus have? A) one B) two C) three

13) Which of the following words is a proper noun? A) present B) chair C) Tesco D) glass

A) Naseem Hamed B) Andreas Kotelnik C) Manny Pacquiao 14) Who did Amir Khan beat to become WBA World light-welterweight champion? A) Naseem Hamed B) Andreas Kotelnik C) Manny Pacquiao

15) Which of the following is an acronym? A) Mr. Smith B) curtains C) * D) B.B.C.

16) What do all proper nouns have? A) 5 letters or more B)start with capital letter C) a person’s name in them D) can be read the same backwards as forwards.

The girls’ music was far too loud. 17) How many girls are we talking about in the following sentence? One or more? The girls’ music was far too loud.

18) In which film did Jim Carrey play the bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss? A) The Mask B)Liar Liar C) Bruce Almighty

19) Which of the following words are palindromes? A) seat, tree, Julie B) film, book, sea C) madam, level, Hannah

20) What is this actor’s name?

21) Which year was Ricky Hatton born? D) 1971

22) What’s wrong with this image?

23)Who wrote the novel Dracula? A) Jane Austen B) Charles Dickens C) Bram Stoker

An interesting note to end on: