The end of this series which began 21 quizzes and 200 years ago!
2 questions per year and an extra 2 to include our current year. Births, deaths, publications, events; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and books for children.
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Question of
2010 – Mark Twain’s Autobiography is published 100 years after his death – who ordered the delay?
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Twain himself
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His children
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Question of
2010 – Finish the title of this David Mitchell novel: The Thousand — of Jacob de Zoet
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Autumns
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Summers
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Question of
2011 – What are the first names of the Sisters Brothers in deWitt’s dark comic novel?
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Eli and Charlie
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Dan and Jack
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Question of
2011 – What play by Richard Bean was adapted from a 1743 Commedia dell’arte play and reset in Brighton in 1963?
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One Man, Two Guvnors
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The Hypocrite
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Question of
2012 – In Johnson’s novel The Orphan Master’s Son what movie changes Jun Do’s perceptions of the West and makes her decide to defect?
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Casablanca
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Question of
2012 – A fairy tale called The Tallow Candle is discovered at the bottom of a box. Which great writer of fairy tales wrote it?
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Charles Perrault
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Question of
2013 – A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride is written in which style?
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Stream of consciousness
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Verse
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Question of
2013 – In Tartt’s The Goldfinch was does the dying old man give Theo in the rubble of the Museum?
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A ring
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A painting
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Question of
2014 – In James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings, how are the sections named?
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After music tracks
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After poets
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Question of
2014 – The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton is set in which European city?
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Amsterdam
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Brussels
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Question of
2015 – At the beginning of Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last, where are Charmaine and Stan living?
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In their car
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In a motel
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Question of
2015 – In Lee’s Go Set a Watchman where is Scout now living?
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New York
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Boston
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Question of
2016 – Homegoing is the debut novel of which writer?
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Yaa Gyasi
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Jesmyn Ward
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Question of
2016 – Atwood’s Hag-Seed is a modern retelling of which of Shakespeare’s plays?
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The Tempest
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Othello
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Question of
2017 – What major prize did Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo win?
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Booker Prize
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Pulitzer Prize
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Question of
2017 – Finish the title of Taibbi’s non-fiction book about the 2016 American election: Insane — President
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Clown
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Circus
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Question of
2018 – The winner of the Booker Prize, Milkman by Anna Burns, marks the first winner from which part of the UK?
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Northern Ireland
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Wales
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Question of
2018 – In Owens’ best selling where the Crawdads Sing how old is Kya when her mother leaves?
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6 years old
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10 years old
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Question of
2019 – Judith Kerr died in May of this year, what was her last published work?
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The Curse of the School Rabbit
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Mogg’s Christmas Calamity
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Question of
2019 – Atwood’s The Testaments shared the Booker Prize with which other novel by a female writer?
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Ducks, Newburyport
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Question of
2020 – Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light covers the time of which of Henry VIII’s queens?
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Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves
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Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr
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Question of
2020 – (And finally!) Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is named after the son of which famous author?
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Shakespeare
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Dickens
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