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  Who wrote the novel, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs? see if you know the answer
Answered: 72 times
Correct: 51 times (42.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 21 times (17.4%)
Skipped: 49 times (40.5%)
  In George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell spends much of his time working as a Plongeur. What is another name for this job? see if you know the answer
Answered: 223 times
Correct: 140 times (40.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 83 times (24.2%)
Skipped: 120 times (35.0%)
  George Orwell worked as a ...? see if you know the answer
Answered: 633 times
Correct: 590 times (77.8%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 43 times (5.7%)
Skipped: 125 times (16.5%)
  How old was George Orwell when he died? see if you know the answer
Answered: 509 times
Correct: 231 times (30.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 278 times (36.8%)
Skipped: 246 times (32.6%)
  Which book by George Orwell begins with this line:
"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 64 times
Correct: 29 times (27.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 35 times (33.7%)
Skipped: 40 times (38.5%)
  Which two writers were exact contemporaries, in that they were both born in the year 1882 and both died in 1941? see if you know the answer
Answered: 66 times
Correct: 33 times (34.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 33 times (34.4%)
Skipped: 30 times (31.3%)
  What book contains this famous quote? "Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." see if you know the answer
Answered: 545 times
Correct: 294 times (38.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 251 times (32.4%)
Skipped: 229 times (29.6%)
  Who was called by Anatole France "the greatest intellectual force in the English-speaking world"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 51 times
Correct: 16 times (19.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 35 times (42.7%)
Skipped: 31 times (37.8%)
  Subtract Dodie Smith's Dalmatians from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey, then add the age Adrian Mole was when he started keeping his diary and the number of the platform where Harry Potter catches the Hogwarts Express, plus Joseph Heller's Catch and Thomas Pynchon's Lot. Now subtract the number of chapters in Julian Barnes' History of the World and you should have the title of another book - by whom? see if you know the answer
Answered: 235 times
Correct: 211 times (61.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 24 times (7.0%)
Skipped: 107 times (31.3%)
  In George Orwell's 1984, who does Winston Smith finally decide that he loves? see if you know the answer
Answered: 3596 times
Correct: 1721 times (40.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1875 times (43.9%)
Skipped: 672 times (15.7%)
  In George Orwell's 1984, which of the following is not one of the three superpowers? see if you know the answer
Answered: 5129 times
Correct: 2770 times (40.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 2359 times (34.7%)
Skipped: 1669 times (24.6%)
  In George Orwell's seminal novel, 1984, what is the name of the governmental agency responsible for ensuring loyalty to Big Brother? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2347 times
Correct: 788 times (30.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 1559 times (60.9%)
Skipped: 214 times (8.4%)
  Where was Winston Smith working at?

1984
George Orwell 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 745 times
Correct: 604 times (63.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 141 times (14.8%)
Skipped: 208 times (21.8%)
  In what book will you find the following immortal lyrics:

Forward, Foster's Children!
Smash apart your foes...
Faith our shield and Armor!
Strike them down by rows!

Make no peace with sinners!
God is on our side!
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Answered: 75 times
Correct: 37 times (33.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 38 times (34.9%)
Skipped: 34 times (31.2%)
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