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Quiz – Bev’s Reading Year (2)

It’s been a lousy year for everything except reading. This is a quiz on my favourite reads of 2020 – it’s been such a good year I’ve made 2 quizzes out of it! Fiction, non-fiction, best sellers, classics and some strange ones along the way – a great year of reading even though my TBR pile has not shrunk!

  • Question of

    What is the city in City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert?

    • New York
    • Chicago
  • Question of

    The Spy by Paulo Coelho is a fictional take on which real life figure?

    • Mata Hari
    • Kim Philby
  • Question of

    In Skoot’s fascinating The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, what was Henrietta known by to the scientists who used her cells?

    • HeLa
    • HLacks
  • Question of

    The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is inspired by what strange case?

    • Fasting girls
    • Voluntary mutism
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Rebecca Solnit’s book: Men — Things to Me

    • Explain
    • Describe
  • Question of

    In Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is the Bennet’s home: Netherfield or Longbourn?

    • Longbourn
    • Netherfield
  • Question of

    What is the name of Edna O’Brien’s powerful 2020 novel?

    • Girl
    • A Pagan Place
  • Question of

    Which African country is the setting for Abi Dare’s wonderful novel The Girl with the Louding Voice?

    • Nigeria
    • Mali
  • Question of

    In Doyle’s ever charming The Commitments, what style of music is the band’s mission?

    • Soul
    • Blues
  • Question of

    What is the title of Michael Cohen’s book about his time fixing shady deals for the Trump family?

    • Disloyal
    • Unbecoming
  • Question of

    A book everyone should read (and be horrified by) finish the title of Caroline Criado Perez’s non fiction book on data: Invisible —

    • Women
    • Numbers
  • Question of

    In Golding’s Lord of the Flies which boy leads the hunters?

    • Jack
    • Ralph
  • Question of

    Who wrote Rage, the non-fiction best seller about the Trump years?

    • Bob Woodward
    • John Bolton
  • Question of

    Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown is set in modern times and which decade?

    • 1950s
    • 1940s
  • Question of

    Who wrote Of Mice and Men?

    • John Steinbeck
    • Ernest Hemingway
  • Question of

    Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept revolves around the publication of which banned novel?

    • Dr Zhivago
    • Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Jon Sopel’s book about reporting from Washington: A Year at the —

    • Circus
    • Whitehouse
  • Question of

    Which major feminist writer wrote The Beauty Myth?

    • Naomi Wolf
    • Gloria Steinem
  • Question of

    Which American politician wrote Trust?

    • Pete Buttigieg
    • Kamala Harris
  • Question of

    What is the famous address of the characters whose shenanigans we follow in Maupin’s Tales of the City series?

    • 28 Barbary Lane
    • 17 Halcyon Heights
  • Question of

    Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler is in which genre?

    • Dystopian
    • Time travel
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Ngozi Adichie’s novel: — Hibiscus

    • Purple
    • Blue
  • Question of

    What is the name of the protagonist in Afia Atakora’s Conjure Women?

    • Rue
    • Belle
  • Question of

    Which little used letter is missing from the name of the author of How to be an Antiracist by Ibram ? Kendi?

    • X
    • Z
  • Question of

    I’ve not quite finished it yet (!) – but what is the title of Barack Obama’s long awaited biography?

    • A Promised Land
    • These Truths

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