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 began but abandoned which of her novels?
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Sanditon
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Lady Susan
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Mary Shelley finished Frankenstein in Buckinghamshire, England. But where had she started it a year earlier?
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Lake Geneva
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Florence
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Two Jane Austen novels are published in this year, six months before her death; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Which one begins seven years after a broken engagement?
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Persuasion
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Northanger Abbey
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Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy was published. What genre is it in?
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Historical
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Children’s
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Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th. His best known work, Walden, is about his experiences in a cabin in woodland in which state?
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Massachusetts
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New Hampshire
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