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Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (9) 1880-1889

A new series beginning in 1800.
Beginning in the early years of the novel – as we know and love it – each quiz covers a decade of literary events – 2 questions per year. Births, deaths, publications, events; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and books for children.

  • Question of

    1880 – What is the name of the lady in James’ novel Portrait of a Lady?

    • Isabel Archer
    • Lydia Touchett
  • Question of

    1880 – Which age group were the original audience for Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio?

    • Children
    • Young Adults
  • Question of

    1881 – ‘I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.’ Which British novelist and humourist was born in Surrey on October 15th?

    • PG Wodehouse
    • EM Forster
  • Question of

    1881 – What is the name of the ship that takes Jim on his adventures in Stevenson’s Treasure Island?

    • Hispaniola
    • The Black Dog
  • Question of

    1882 – On what famous street does Tom live in Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper?

    • Pudding Lane
    • Fleet Street
  • Question of

    1882 – ‘As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.’ Which modernist writer was born in London on January 25th?

    • Virginia Woolf
    • Gertrude Stein
  • Question of

    1883 – What is Mark Twain’s memoir called?

    • Life on the Mississippi
    • Personal Reflections
  • Question of

    1883 – ‘A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.’ Which novelist was born in Prague on July 3rd?

    • Franz Kafka
    • Hermann Hesse
  • Question of

    1884 – Part 1 of what will become known as The Oxford English Dictionary is published. What section of the alphabet is covered by it?

    • A-Ant
    • A-Bac
  • Question of

    1884 – What is the name of the runaway slave and Huck’s friend in Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

    • Jim
    • Buck
  • Question of

    1885 – Where does H Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines begin?

    • South Africa
    • Assyria
  • Question of

    1885 – ‘Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.’ Which British novelist was born in Nottinghamshire on September 11th?

    • DH Lawrence
    • Joseph Conrad
  • Question of

    1886 – Finish the title of Stevenson’s classic novella: The Strange — of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

    • Case
    • Tale
  • Question of

    1886 – Where does Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy begin his life?

    • New York
    • Boston
  • Question of

    1887 – What is the name of the novel that introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes?

    • A Study in Scarlet
    • The Sign of Four
  • Question of

    1887 – ‘If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.’ Which famous war poet was born in Warwickshire on August 3rd?

    • Rupert Brooke
    • Siegfried Sassoon
  • Question of

    1888 – ‘I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.’ Which poet was born in St Louis, Missouri on September 26th?

    • TS Eliot
    • EE Cummings
  • Question of

    1888 – The 15 month Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith begins in which month?

    • April
    • June
  • Question of

    1889 – The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel by which Irish writer?

    • Oscar Wilde
    • WB Yeats
  • Question of

    1889 – In Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) which river are the characters travelling along on their holiday?

    • Thames
    • Avon

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