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September – 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 September are some National Days, the anniversary of the start of world war 2, back to school, Grandparents’ Day, Autumn Equinox and the UN Day of Peace.

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  • Question of

    In which occupied country is Hannah’s popular novel The Nightingale set?

    • France
    • Poland
  • Question of

    What is the title of Harris’ 2020 best-selling thriller: V1 or V2?

    • V1
    • V2
  • Question of

    Which bestselling world war 2 novel is narrated by Death?

    • The Book Thief
    • All the Light we Cannot See
  • Question of

    Who wrote the 1955 novel, The Quiet American, which depicts the breakdown of colonialism in Vietnam?

    • Graham Greene
    • William Golding
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Soli’s novel about the fall of Saigon: The Lotus —

    • Eaters
    • War
  • Question of

    What is the name of the kind, loving teacher in Jane Eyre?

    • Miss Temple
    • Miss Stacey
  • Question of

    Which school does the awful Miss Trunchbull run in Dahl’s Matilda?

    • Crunchem Hall
    • Dotheboys Hall
  • Question of

    Finish the name of the school in Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: Enfield — Academy

    • Tennis
    • Dancing
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Patchett’s novel set on the Rio Negro: — of Wonder

    • State
    • Time
  • Question of

    In Sauma’s Everything you ever Wanted where does the programme offer you a new life: under water or another planet?

    • Another planet
    • Under Water
  • Question of

    Which grandpa goes with Charlie to the Chocolate Factory?

    • Joe
    • George
  • Question of

    Which British-Indian author wrote The Granddaughter Project about three women who use their voices to improve life for their granddaughters?

    • Shaheen Chishti
    • Nikita Lalwani
  • Question of

    In which Scandinavian country is the island shared by the grandmother and her granddaughter in Jansson’s The Summer Book?

    • Finland
    • Norway
  • Question of

    Whose 1947 novella The Pearl was based on a Mexican folk tale?

    • John Steinbeck
    • Ernest Hemingway
  • Question of

    Jufresa’s Umami is set in which city: Mexico City or Cancún?

    • Mexico City
    • Cancún
  • Question of

    Who wrote the poem To Autumn which begins, ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…’

    • John Keats
    • William Wordsworth
  • Question of

    Finish the title of the Garcia Marquez novel: The Autumn of the —

    • Patriarch
    • Matriarch
  • Question of

    What year did Tolstoy’s War and Peace begin serialisation?

    • 1865
    • 1848
  • Question of

    Who wrote Between the Acts, set in the last days of peace in England before world war 2?

    • Virginia Woolf
    • Agatha Christie
  • Question of

    In Oyeyemi’s Peaces what mode of transport do the characters take on their strange journey?

    • Train
    • Balloon

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