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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Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia. What genre did he write in before entering politics?
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Plays
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Poetry
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Which ancient Chinese game is used for the structure of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club?
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Mahjong
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Go
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Is Clancy’s Clear and Present danger a sequel or prequel?
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Sequel
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Prequel
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Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth is set in which century?
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12th
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15th
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Question of
Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! was his 8th novel but the first one about which specific group?
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The Ankh-Morpork City Watch
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The Wizards of the Unseen University
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