Decades Quiz 12 – 1900-1909
Decades Quiz 12 – 1900-1909
Each quiz in this series goes back a decade in time and is about books published in that decade and also books set in it. This quiz takes us back to the beginning of the new century when all the certainties and restrictions of Victorian times were being left behind.
Each quiz in this series goes back a decade in time and is about books published in that decade and also books set in it. This quiz takes us back to the beginning of the new century when all the certainties and restrictions of Victorian times were being left behind.
In 1908 Montgomery gave the world Anne Shirley, who was Anne’s best friend and kindred spirit?
In Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz what colour are the magic shoes that belonged to the Witch of the East?
Which is the 3rd book to feature Sherlock Holmes, published in 1902 and set on Dartmoor, Devon?
Which 1908 novel introduced us to the idea of ‘simply messing about in boats’?
In which Italian city do Lucy and Charlotte begin their adventures in Forster’s 1908 delight A Room with View?
Which Wharton 1905 novel follows the sad journey of Lily Bart from the centre of society to a lonely existence on its outside?
Chevalier’s 2009 novel, Falling Angels is about two girls in the early 1900s one clinging to the past, one embracing the future. What are their names?
What was Potter’s first story for children, published in 1902?
What is the name of Orczy’s 1905 mysterious hero The Scarlet Pimpernel?
Which classic 1905 story has Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter as its protagonists?
Which 1900 Dreiser novel is an uncomfortable, urban take on the American Dream?
What was the last play by Chekov, performed in 1904?
Finish the tile of this Chesterton novel: The Man Who Was ---.
Where does the action happen in Leroux’s 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera?
Who wrote the 1934 novel Call it Sleep about a Jewish immigrant family in New York at the turn of the century?
Where is Conrad’s 1904 novel Nostromo set?
Which 1902 James novel is about an American heiress stricken with a serious disease?
What is the first novel of the Forsyte Saga series, published in 1906?
Which 1905 novel by HG Wells about an illegitimate orphan was the writer’s own personal favourite of his novels?
Who is the outback heroine of Franklin’s 1901 novel My Brilliant Career?