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Quiz! July – Events

 

A new monthly series for 2021.
This series of quizzes uses various events – national, international, literary or historical – that take place this month to ask relevant literary questions. The events for July are 6 national days, the opening of the Olympics (hopefully!) and the anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

 

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US – UK – Canada – Australia – Germany – France – Spain – Italy – Japan

  • Question of

    Finish the title of the 2020 novel by Canadian writer Graham: The — Home Child

    • Forgotten
    • Lost
  • Question of

    Which famous Canadian writer was born in Ottawa: LM Montgomery or Margaret Atwood?

    • Margaret Atwood
    • LM Montgomery
  • Question of

    Who is the author of The Four Winds, the best-selling novel of 2021(so far!) in the US?

    • Kristin Hannah
    • Colson Whitehead
  • Question of

    Which of Toni Morrison’s novels is considered to be a ‘Great American Novel’?

    • Beloved
    • The Bluest Eye
  • Question of

    Who is the protagonist of Sainz Borgo’s 2020 novel, It Would be Night in Caracas?

    • Adelaida
    • Aliana
  • Question of

    The Hacienda, set in the Venezuelan Andes, by Lisa St Aubin de Teran is written in which genre?

    • Memoir
    • Thriller
  • Question of

    Finish the title of the 2021 collection of short stories by Mariana Enriquez: The — of Smoking in Bed.

    • Dangers
    • Pleasures
  • Question of

    Which Argentine writer wrote the bestselling futuristic novel Little Eyes?

    • Samanta Schweblin
    • Selva Almada
  • Question of

    The most famous literary Belgian, Hercule Poirot, appears in how many of Christie’s novels?

    • 33
    • 27
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Belgian writer de Coster’s popular novel: — and Me

    • We
    • You
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Ahdaf Soueif’s prize winning novel: The — of Love.

    • Map
    • Loss
  • Question of

    Which is the only play by Shakespeare that has Egypt as one of its settings?

    • Antony and Cleopatra
    • Troilus and Cressida
  • Question of

    Gold by Chris Cleave is centred around which Olympic sport?

    • Cycling
    • Gymnastics
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Brown’s bestselling non-fiction book about an American Olympic team: The Boys in the —.

    • Boat
    • Bus
  • Question of

    What is the name of Hillenbrand’s novel based on a true story about Olympic athlete Zamperini who became a POW in World War 2.

    • Unbroken
    • Undaunted
  • Question of

    Hooper’s 2020 novel, Fast Girls, is based on the real lives of American women participating in the 1936 Olympics in which sport?

    • Athletics
    • Swimming
  • Question of

    Which WW1 poet wrote the haunting Dulce et Decorum est?

    • Wilfred Owen
    • Rupert Brooke
  • Question of

    What is the name of the protagonist of All Quiet on the Western Front?

    • Paul
    • Friedrich
  • Question of

    Finish the title of West’s brilliant 1918 novel: The — of the Soldier

    • Return
    • Night
  • Question of

    Faulks’ 2021 novel, Snow Country, begins in 1914 in which European city?

    • Vienna
    • Berlin

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