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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Jane Austen and her family moved to which city in the spring of this year?
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Bath
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Winchester
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Maria Edgeworth’s novel, Belinda, was published and was considered highly controversial for what reason?
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Interracial marriage
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Women’s suffrage
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Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth. In what setting does the poem begin?
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A wedding
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A funeral
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Karl Baedeker, the father of tourist guidebooks, was born on November 3rd in which country?
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Germany
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Austria
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The first complete Bible translation into which language was published in this year?
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Scottish Gaelic
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Welsh
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