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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Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right was the first novel to include which type of character?
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Private Detective
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Female doctor
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Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace was published. In which Russian city does the novel begin?
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St Petersburg
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Moscow
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Good Wives is the second volume of Alcott’s Little Women. When Jo leaves home for some adventure, which city does she go to live in?
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New York City
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Chicago
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Which great showman published a work called Struggles and Triumphs?
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PT Barnum
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James Bailey
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Mark Twain’s best selling work during his lifetime was published this year. Which work was it?
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Innocents Abroad
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The Prince and the Pauper
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