Loaded Questions 1/17/22 - Literature
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This Monday edition is available to all Loaded Question readers. Be sure to subscribe to unlock 55 more questions every week! So, I accidentally had yesterday’s post go to everyone, so I hope everyone enjoyed a little Sunday surprise! Even though the entire month of January’s questions were set in December, I’ll blame it on not enough sleep during the MIT Mystery Hunt. Nonetheless, enjoy the questions!
1. The fragmentary novel "Flights" won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for what Polish author, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2018?
2. Cadillac salesman Julian English and his self-destruction is the plot of what 1934 novel by John O'Hara which takes its name from a legend about a Baghdad merchant meeting Death?
3. "The Armadillo", "One Art", "In the Waiting Room", and "The Fish" are all poems by what 20th century American poet?
4. Who is the main character of the series of comedic novels by Sue Townshend, written as a diary by the title teenager, who is "15 3/4" in the first novel?
5. What illiterate cowherd wrote a namesake "Hymn" in the 7th century, and is the earliest English poet whose name is known? This work survived thanks to the Venerable Bede's "Ecclesiastical History of the English People".
6. Who is the main character of a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, told as an "autobiography" of events told as an oral history, featuring both the Emancipation Proclamation and a Civil Rights march?
7. Set during the 1130s and 1140s, what 1989 novel by Ken Follett is about the construction of a cathedral in Kingsbridge, England?
8. Big Brother is the leader of what political party in Orwell's "1984", which also contained in its ranks O'Brien and Emmanual Goldstein?
9. Born October 1992, what Indian-Canadian author known of the genre of Instapoetry had a NYT Bestseller with her 2014 book "Milk and Honey"?
10. What name is given to the biography of a saint or ecclesiastical leader?
11. Percy Jackson is the Rick Riordan character who deals with Greek myth figures. Who is his character that deals with Norse myth, appearing with the "Gods of Asgard" in a trilogy of books released 2015 to 2017?
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1. Olga Tokarczuk
2. Appointment in Samarra
3. Elizabeth Bishop
4. Adrian Mole
5. Caedmon
6. Miss Jane Pittman
7. The Pillars of the Earth
8. Ingsoc
9. Rupi Kaur
10. Hagiography
11. Magnus Chase