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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HG Wells began teaching science at a school in North London. Which future author of children’s books was one of his pupils?
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AA Milne
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Arthur Ransome
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Strindberg’s Miss Julie was performed for the first time. Which city’s University is it performed at?
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Copenhagen
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Stockholm
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Finish the title of Jerome’s comic travelogue: — Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
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Three
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Four
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Poet Robert Browning died. Which major London cathedral is his resting place?
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Westminster Abbey
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St Paul’s
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Which famous publishing house opened in this year in London?
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Methuen
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Bloomsbury
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