Keywords – X, Y & Z – X, Year and Zoo
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X by Cory Doctorow is a novel for which audience?
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Young Adult
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Children
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Which famous thriller writer wrote Zoo?
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James Patterson
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John Grisham
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Who wrote: ‘A new heart for a New Year, always!’
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Charles Dickens
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Jane Austen
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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.’
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Bret Easton Ellis
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Irvine Welsh
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Each section of Woolf’s The Years takes place over what amount of time?
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A day
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A year
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Finish the title of this collection of essays by Isaac Asimov: X Stands for —
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Unknown
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Known
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Which poet wrote: ‘For last year’s words belong to last year’s language/And next year’s words await another voice.’
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TS Eliot
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Which famous American writer wrote the autobiographical The Year of Magical Thinking?
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Joan Didion
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Marilynne Robinson
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Which children’s author introduced us to Gerald McGrew in If I Ran the Zoo?
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Dr Seuss
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Julia Donaldson
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Who wrote: ‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.’
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry David Thoreau
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The Year of the Flood is partly a sequel to which Atwood novel?
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Oryx and Crake
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MaddAddam
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote about how many Years of Solitude?
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100
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1000
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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.’
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Ernest Hemingway
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Terry Pratchett
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Finish the title of this Terry Hayes bestselling thriller: The Year of the —
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Locust
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Bear
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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.’
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Nadine Gordimer
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Nelson Mandela
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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.”
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Yann Martel
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Mark Haddon
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X Out of Wonderland by David Allan Cates is a modern take on which classic French novel?
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Candide
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna is set in which Scandinavian country?
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Finland
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Sweden
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Finish the title of this novel by Matthew Reilly: The Great Zoo of —
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China
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India
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The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman is set in which war torn city?
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Warsaw
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Berlin
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