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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Poe’s The Murder’s in the Rue Morgue was published. It’s considered the first significant work of which genre?
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Detective fiction
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Horror
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Publisher Edward Moxon was found guilty of libel for an uncensored edition of Shelley’s poem Queen Mab that had certain passages restored. What issue did these passages cover?
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Atheism
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Homosexuality
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Question of
Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop began publication. In what type of travelling show do Nell and her grandfather find refuge?
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Waxworks
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Fortune teller
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Russian Romantic writer, Mikhail Lermontov died in this year. Did he commit suicide?
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No
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Yes
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Question of
Pippa Passes is a dramatic poem by which poet?
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Robert Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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