A new series of 46 mini quizzes in this countdown to a new President. Each quiz asks 5 literary questions from the year of inauguration from George Washington in 1789 to Joe Biden’s election in 2020. Literary events, births, deaths and various shenanigans by famous writers plus their great works, of course.
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The Crucible opened on Broadway. Who wrote it?
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Arthur Miller
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Tennessee Williams
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James Bond got his first outing in this year. In which novel?
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Casino Royale
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Goldeneye
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James Baldwin’s semi-biographical novel Go Tell it to the Mountain is set in which US state?
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New York
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Georgia
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Question of
Finish the classic title: Fahrenheit —.
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451
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541
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Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for which novel?
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The Old Man and the Sea
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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