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Quiz! October – 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 October are; National Poetry Day, the Nobel Prize for Literature, Space Week, World Teachers’ Day, World Ballet Day, Halloween, the Day of the Dead and various National Days.

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  • Question of

    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in which decade of the 20th century?

    • 1960s
    • 1940s
  • Question of

    Who wrote the 2020 bestselling The Girl with the Louding Voice?

    • Abi Daré
    • Jane Igharo
  • Question of

    Which Chinese-American author’s memoirs are titled Where the Past Begins?

    • Amy Tan
    • Tess Gerritsen
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Eileen Chang’s novel: Half a Lifelong —

    • Romance
    • Affair
  • Question of

    Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin became which musical?

    • Yes
    • Marguerite
  • Question of

    Who is the author of The End of Days and Go, Went, Gone?

    • Jenny Erpenbeck
    • Corina Bomann
  • Question of

    Dean Koontz’ novel, Elsewhere, is science fiction and which other genre?

    • Crime
    • Horror
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Crichton’s sequel to the Andromeda Strain: The Andromeda —

    • Evolution
    • Project
  • Question of

    In which beloved children’s novel are Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull polar opposites?

    • Matilda
    • A Little Princess
  • Question of

    Who wrote the play The History Boys?

    • Alan Bennett
    • David Hare
  • Question of

    What is the longest poem in world history?

    • The Mahabharata
    • The Iliad
  • Question of

    Who was the Inaugural Poet at Biden’s Inauguration?

    • Amanda Gorman
    • Maggie Nelson
  • Question of

    Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize?

    • Louise Glück
    • Peter Handke
  • Question of

    Which country has produced the most Nobel Laureates?

    • France
    • USA
  • Question of

    Which prize winning author wrote Astonish Me, a novel about professional dance that begins in the 1970s?

    • Maggie Shipstead
    • Anna Burns
  • Question of

    Abbott’s The Turnout, set in a dance school, is in which genre?

    • Thriller
    • Historical
  • Question of

    Halloween Party by Agatha Christie is an outing for which detetective?

    • Hercule Poirot
    • Miss Marple
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Jackson’s spooky novel: The Haunting of — House

    • Hill
    • Hell
  • Question of

    Lowry’s Under the Volcano takes place on the Day of the Dead in which decade of the 20th century?

    • 1930s
    • 1950s
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Moreno-Garcia’s 2021 feminist re-imagining of haunted house story: Mexican —

    • Gothic
    • Fantasy

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