This quiz will use various events – national, international, literary or historical – that take place this month to ask relevant literary questions. March is a busy month, the events are; LGBTQ+ History Month, the national days of 5 countries, World Book Day, International Women’s Day, Mother’s Day, Pi Day, World Poetry Day and World Theatre Day. Were you aware there were so many event days during March?
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Question of
March – LGBTQ+ History Month: Who wrote the 2021 gothic mystery Plain Bad Heroines?
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Emily M Danforth
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VE Schwab
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March – LGBTQ+ History Month: Jedrowski’s 2020 novel is about being gay and liberal in which repressive country?
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Hungary
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Poland
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Question of
National Days of Wales, Ireland, Greece, Ghana & Hungary; Wales – What was Trezza Azzopardi’s debut novel set in Cardiff?
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Winterton Blue
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The Hiding Place
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National Days of Wales, Ireland, Greece, Ghana & Hungary; Ireland – In Donoghue’s novel, The Wonder, who is sent to investigate the fasting girl?
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A nurse
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A journalist
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National Days of Wales, Ireland, Greece, Ghana & Hungary; Greece – Samson’s A Theatre for Dreamers is set on which Greek island?
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Crete
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Hydra
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National Days of Wales, Ireland, Greece, Ghana & Hungary; Ghana – Effia and Esi are sisters in which novel by Yaa Gyasi?
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Homegoing
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Transcendent Kingdom
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National Days of Wales, Ireland, Greece, Ghana & Hungary; Hungary – Who is the most translated Hungarian author?
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Sándor Márai
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Magda Szabó
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Question of
4th – World Book Day: Which Obama wrote the top selling book of 2020?
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Barack
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Michelle
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4th – World Book Day: What was the text of the world’s first e-book?
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Hamlet
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The Declaration of Independence
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Question of
8th – International Women’s Day: What name does Woolf give her imaginary Shakespeare’s sister to illustrate the lack of education and opportunities for women?
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Judith
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Esther
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Question of
8th – International Women’s Day: Which novel tells of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective?
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Circe
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A Thousand Ships
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Question of
14th – Mother’s Day: Which ghastly mother believes that ‘looks is more important than books’?
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Mrs Wormwood – Matilda
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Mrs Tulliver – Mill on the Floss
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Question of
14th – Mother’s Day: ‘A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled’ which American poet wrote these words?
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Dorothy Parker
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Emily Dickinson
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Question of
14th – Pi Day: In the Life of Pi what is Pi named after?
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The number π
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A swimming pool
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14th – Pi Day: In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, what number is the meaning of life?
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42
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64
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Question of
14th – Pi Day: In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time what does Christopher use to name the chapters?
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Square numbers
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Prime numbers
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Question of
21st – World Poetry Day: What is the name of the poem written and performed by Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman?
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The Hill We Climb
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In This Place
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Question of
21st – World Poetry Day: What is the cruellest month at the start of TS Eliot’s The Wasteland?
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January
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April
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Question of
27th – World Theatre Day: In which Coward play do a divorced couple have adjoining rooms on their new honeymoons?
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Present Laughter
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Private Lives
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Question of
27th – World Theatre Day: When London’s new Globe Theatre opened which play was the first one performed?
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Henry V
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Macbeth
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