When I started writing quizzes for For Reading Addicts in 2016, I thought I may do a few dozen – and here we are, this is my 800th quiz!. 28 questions all with something 8ish as the theme. Enjoy!
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Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days begins and ends where in London?
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Reform Club
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Paddington Station
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Alphabetically, which is Shakespeare’s 8th play?
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Henry IV part 1
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Henry IV part 2
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Strindberg’s play Miss Julie premiered in 1888. What time of year is it set?
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Midsummer
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Christmas
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Finish the title of Pavesi’s 2021 thriller: The Eighth —
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Detective
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Body
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The 2020 novel The Eighth Life by Haratischvili is set in which historical period?
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Russian Revolution
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Second World War
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Which of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books was published as a stand alone novel for the first time in 1888?
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A Study in Scarlet
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The Sign of Four
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What is the 8th most used word in English?
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That
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Have
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Henry James’ The Aspern Papers, published in 1888, are based on the letters of which Romantic poet?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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John Keats
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Which great American/English poet was born on September 26th 1888?
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TS Eliot
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Ezra Pound
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What is the 8th most used letter in English (according to Wikipedia)?
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H
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R
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The 2021 novel, The Eighth Girl, by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung is set in which European city?
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London
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Florence
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Who wrote The Man Who Would be King and Plain Tales from the Hills, both published in 1888?
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Rudyard Kipling
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H Rider Haggard
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In Swanson’s 2021 novel, Eight Perfect Murders, where does the character Kershaw get his list of ‘perfect murders’ from?
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Novels
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Visions
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Christie’s 8th novel, The Mystery of the Blue Train, was an outing for which of her famous detectives?
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Hercule Poirot
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Miss Marple
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What was the 8th of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder?
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These Happy Golden Years
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Little Town on the Prairie
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Where in Canada is the setting for Atwood’s Cat’s Eyes, published in 1988?
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Toronto
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Ottawa
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Which of Pratchett’s 1988 novels brilliantly begins with a moody Macbethian scene with a voice asking, ‘When shall we three meet again?’ To which there is a reply: ‘Well, I can do next Tuesday.’
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Wyrd Sisters
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Sourcery
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Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince was published in 1888, what genre is it?
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Children’s book
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Satire
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Which best-selling author wrote the thriller The Eighth Confession?
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James Patterson
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John Grisham
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Which of Eco’s famous books was published in 1988?
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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The Name of the Rose
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What was the 8th outing for James Bond?
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For Your Eyes Only
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Thunderball
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Who is the protagonist of Alcott’s Eight Cousins?
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Rose
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Phoebe
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What is the 8th in the Anne of Green Gables series?
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Rilla of Ingleside
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Rainbow Valley
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Finish the title of Rushdie’s novel: Two Years Eight —
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Months
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Days
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Finish the title of this 2019 Patterson thriller: The 18th —
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Abduction
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Birthday
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What sort of animal is the hero of Byars’ book for children, The 18th Emergency?
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Mouse
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Panda
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What was the best-selling book in the UK in 2018?
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
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Becoming
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What was the best-selling book in the US in 2018?
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Becoming
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Little Fires Everywhere
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