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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A copy of Joyce’s Ulysses was posted to a London bookseller from where in Dublin?
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A pub
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A school
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Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey, detective and bibliophile, made his debut. In which novel?
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Whose Body?
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Strong Poison
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Which TS Eliot novel opens with the lines: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
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The Waste Land
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The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
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Which detective gets an outing in Christie’s Murder on the Links?
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Hercule Poirot
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Miss Marple
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American novelist Joseph Heller was born on May 1st. Which of his novels begins: It was love at first sight.
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Catch-22
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Something Happened
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