The 21st Century Book Quiz
It’s hard for us to believe that it’s been over two decades since we celebrated the new millennium. Enjoy our thoroughly modern 21st Century Book Quiz. 10 Questions on famous contemporary books and authors.
Results
#1. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante is set in which Italian city?
Unlucky! My Brilliant Friend was set in Naples
#2. Who wrote Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead?
Unlucky, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk wrote it in 2009, it was later translated to English in 2018
#3. Anna Burns won the 2018 Booker Prize with which novel?
Unlucky! Milkman was the winning novel
#4. Moneyball by Michael Lewis tells of the revolutionizing of which sport using mathematics?
Unlucky! Moneyball was about Baseball.
#5. Released in 2007, what was the 7th and final installment in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series?
Unlucky! Deathly Hallows was the last book
#6. In 2000, who wrote The Last Samurai?
Unlucky! It was Helen Dewitt’s debut novel
#7. Outline by Rachel Cusk is set in which European city?
Unlucky! It is the story of an English woman writer who flies to Athens to teach a summer writing workshop
#8. In 2019 Margaret Atwood won her 2nd Booker Prize for which novel?
Unlucky! The Testaments won the 2019 prize. The Blind Assassin won in 2000.
#9. Published in 2006, who wrote Half of a Yellow Sun?
Unlucky! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote this novel.
#10. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James tells of the attempted assassination of who?
Unlucky! It was Bob Marley
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