Decades Quiz 13 – 1890-1899
Decades Quiz 13 – 1890-1899
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 end of the Victorian era when a new century of changing morals and technological advances was beckoning.
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 end of the Victorian era when a new century of changing morals and technological advances was beckoning.
What 1894 novel by Twain is about two boys one born into slavery, one born to be master of the house?
What is the genre of Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula?
Who was HG Wells’ 1910 antihero living in the last years of the 19th century?
What was the second Sherlock Holmes novel and the only one published in this decade?
What is the name of the shadowy ivory trader at the centre of Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness?
Which Hardy heroine of 1892 believed we live on ‘a blighted star’?
Which 2012 novel by Paula Cohen is set in 1894 in the world of New York opera?
In which 1899 novel does Edna Pontellier rebel against the conventional expectations of her life?
What 1994 novel by Caleb Carr is set in 1896 New York and features Theodore Roosevelt and JP Morgan?
Of the 4 novellas that make up Wharton’s 1924 Old New York, which one is told from the perspective of the 1890s?
In which 1898 James novella does a young governess arrive at a country home to take care of Miles and Flora?
Who introduced Mowgli, Baloo and Shere Khan to the world in 1894?
Ragtime by EL Doctorow in 1975 is set in which city at the turn of the century?
Finish the title of this 2011 novel set in Texas in 1899: The --- of Calpurnia Tate.
The Red Badge of Courage (1894) by Stephen Crane is set in which US war?
Which 1897 play introduced the word ‘panache’ into the English language?
Which 1898 Chekov play features an elderly professor and his glamourous, much younger wife visiting their rural estate?
What 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is regarded as one of the early works of American feminist literature?
Which 1892 Wilde play does this quote come from: ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
The first collection of Emily Dickinson’s poetry was published in 1890, how many years after her death?