Decades Quiz 14 – 1880-1889
Decades Quiz 14 – 1880-1889
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 a time of serious social problems ‘gilded’ by rapid economic growth.
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 a time of serious social problems ‘gilded’ by rapid economic growth.
Which Twain hero said this in 1884: ‘Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.’
In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes’ first outing in 1887, Holmes was the first literary detective to use what device?
What are the two first names of 1886’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
What 2016 novel by Amitav Ghosh begins in 1885 with the British invasion of Mandalay and ends with a family scattering around the world after World War Two?
Which 1883 novel introduced treasure maps marked with an ‘X’, the Black Spot and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders?
Which 1880 Dostoyevsky novel is a passionate philosophical story set against a modernising Russia?
In James’ 1881 Portrait of a Lady which Italian city does Isabel meet Gilbert?
Which 1885 novel tells of a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain searching an unexplored region of Africa?
Which 1886 Hardy novel is subtitled The Life and Death of a Man of Character?
What 2001 novel by Jane Urquhart is set at Niagara Falls in 1889?
In Collodi’s 1883 story Pinocchio what is the name of the fairy who punishes the little puppet’s lies?
Which play by Norwegian Henrik Ibsen was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago?
Finish the title of this 1886 Tolstoy novella: The Death of --- Ilyich
Finish the title of the first part of Heidi, published in 1881: Heidi: her years of wandering and ---.
Which 1941 Little House book tells of the years 1882 – 1885 when Laura takes her first teaching job?
Which Alcott novel, published in 1886, is the final novel in the Little Women series?
Who wrote the 1887 novella The Canterville Ghost?
In Burnett’s 1886 classic Little Lord Fauntleroy where does young Cedric begin his journey?
Finish the title of this 1889 Jerome classic: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the ---).
Which 1880 novel by Zola tells of the protagonist’s rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last years of the Second Empire?