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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Which great literary work published in this year begins: Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me:…
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Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
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The Female Reader by Mary Wollstonecraft
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James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15th. His most famous books form part of a series called the Leatherstocking Tales. How many in the series?
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5
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7
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Question of
Novelist John Cleland died on January 23rd. What daring book is he best remembered for?
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Fanny Hill
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Moll Flanders
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Question of
Ann Radcliffe published a novel called The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. What genre is it in?
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Gothic
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Romance
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Question of
The great actor John Philip Kemble starred at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in his own production of which Shakespeare play?
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Coriolanus
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King Lear
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