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X, Y & Z – X, Year and Zoo

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  • Question of

    X by Cory Doctorow is a novel for which audience?

    • Young Adult
    • Children
  • Question of

    Which famous thriller writer wrote Zoo?

    • James Patterson
    • John Grisham
  • Question of

    Who wrote: ‘A new heart for a New Year, always!’

    • Charles Dickens
    • Jane Austen
  • Question of

    Who wrote: ‘DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change in when none of the zookeepers are watching… It’s not the seals I hate – it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.’

    • Bret Easton Ellis
    • Irvine Welsh
  • Question of

    Each section of Woolf’s The Years takes place over what amount of time?

    • A day
    • A year
  • Question of

    Finish the title of this collection of essays by Isaac Asimov: X Stands for —

    • Unknown
    • Known
  • Question of

    Which poet wrote: ‘For last year’s words belong to last year’s language/And next year’s words await another voice.’

    • TS Eliot
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Question of

    Which famous American writer wrote the autobiographical The Year of Magical Thinking?

    • Joan Didion
    • Marilynne Robinson
  • Question of

    Which children’s author introduced us to Gerald McGrew in If I Ran the Zoo?

    • Dr Seuss
    • Julia Donaldson
  • Question of

    Who wrote: ‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.’

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Henry David Thoreau
  • Question of

    The Year of the Flood is partly a sequel to which Atwood novel?

    • Oryx and Crake
    • MaddAddam
  • Question of

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote about how many Years of Solitude?

    • 100
    • 1000
  • Question of

    Who wrote: ‘I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.’

    • Ernest Hemingway
    • Terry Pratchett
  • Question of

    Finish the title of this Terry Hayes bestselling thriller: The Year of the —

    • Locust
    • Bear
  • Question of

    Which famous writer and activist wrote ‘The caged eagle became a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate imprisonment. A zoo is a prison.’

    • Nadine Gordimer
    • Nelson Mandela
  • Question of

    Who wrote: ‘I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.”

    • Yann Martel
    • Mark Haddon
  • Question of

    X Out of Wonderland by David Allan Cates is a modern take on which classic French novel?

    • Candide
    • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Question of

    The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna is set in which Scandinavian country?

    • Finland
    • Sweden
  • Question of

    Finish the title of this novel by Matthew Reilly: The Great Zoo of —

    • China
    • India
  • Question of

    The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman is set in which war torn city?

    • Warsaw
    • Berlin

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