The first quiz in a new monthly series for 2021.
This series of quizzes will use various events – national, international, literary or historical – that take place this month to ask relevant literary questions. For January the events are; New Years’ Day, Martin Luther King Day, Winnie the Pooh Day, Burns’ Night, Australia Day and The Costa Prize.
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Which of Dickens’ Christmas books ends with Trotty waking up from a dream-within-a-dream on New Year’s Day?
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The Chimes
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The Battle of Life
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith opens in London on New Year’s Day – in which decade?
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1970s
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1980s
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The 14th century text Sir Gawain and the Green Knight begins where in England on New Year’s Day?
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Camelot
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Tintagel
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Question of
Finish the title of Martin Luther King’s memoir of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Stride Toward —
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Freedom
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Equality
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Question of
What is the 2020 sequel to the 2018 best seller Dear Martin by Nic Stone?
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Dear Justyce
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Dear John
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In which book of her memoirs does Maya Angelou work in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King?
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The Heart of a Woman
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A Song Flung up to Heaven
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Question of
AA Milne’s initials stand for Alan Anthony – true or false?
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False
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True
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Finish the quote: ‘I like Rabbit, because he uses short, easy words, like ‘how about —.’
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Lunch
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Tea
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In the famous AA Milne poem what does the King like a bit of on his bread?
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Butter
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Marmalade
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Which of Pooh’s friends gets stuck up a tree?
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Tigger
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Roo
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Question of
Did Robert Burns write the New Year’s Eve anthem Auld Lang Syne?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Finish the line of one of Burns’ most famous poems: O my Luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in —;
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June
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May
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Which of Steinbeck’s novel’s titles is taken from a Burns’ poem?
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Of Mice and Men
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Burns is considered to be a pioneer of which artistic movement?
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Romantics
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Pre-Raphaelite
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Which part of Australia is the setting for the latter part of Shute’s A Town Like Alice?
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Queensland
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Northern Territories
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Question of
What was Kate Grenville’s 2020 novel?
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A Room Made of Leaves
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The Idea of Perfection
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Which Tim Winton novel is about the Pickles and Lamb families?
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Cloudstreet
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Dirt Music
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Who won the First Novel category in 2019?
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Sara Collins for The Confessions of Frannie Langton
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Stuart Turton for The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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Did Hilary Mantel win twice, once for Wolf Hall, once for Bring up the Bodies?
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Yes
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No
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The 2019 winner of the Biography category was The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather. What was the nationality of the eponymous volunteer?
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Polish
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German
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