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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Oscar Wilde was jailed in Reading Gaol for what ‘crime’?
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Gross indecency
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Blasphemy
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Question of
Which famous author’s death was misreported leading him to issue the famous retort: ‘The report of my death was an exaggeration.’
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Mark Twain
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GB Shaw
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Which HG Wells novel begins: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s…
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War of the Worlds
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The Time Machine
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published with a last minute title change. What was the original title?
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The Un-Dead
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The Count of Transylvania
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William Faulkner was born on September 25th. He was born and died in the same state, which one?
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Mississippi
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Louisiana
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