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Test your knowledge in our book quiz!

16 August 2024

The Books Ireland Quiz

Our book quiz is out for August! How many will you get right?

The Books Ireland Quiz (August)

1 / 10

Which book was number one in the bestseller charts for 2023?

Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent

Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch

The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray

It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover

2 / 10

Coming out this autumn is a fictional portrayal of the author of Jane Eyre. What is is called?

Bell

West Riding

Glass Town

Charlotte

3 / 10

What is the oldest book publisher in the world?

Penguin

The Royal Irish Academy

Cambridge University Press

Chicago Review Press

4 / 10

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”

This is a quote from which Shakespearian play?

Hamlet

Macbeth

Julius Caesar

Othello

5 / 10

"My heart is like a singing bird" is the opening line of a poem by which poet?

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë

Katharine Tyne

6 / 10

Who spent a year as a governess in Bilbao which inspired her novel, Mary Lavelle?

Edna O'Brien

Kate O'Brien

Katherine Thurston

Mary Lavin

7 / 10

This is an intimate portrayal of the life of 18th-century pirate Anne Bonny.

Castaway

High Seas

Seaborne

Watermark

8 / 10

Who wrote An Arid Season?

Dermot Healy

Michael D. Higgins

Brendan Kennelly

Micheal O'Siadhail

9 / 10

Loony layers are mixed up for this novelist.

Maeve Binchy

Sally Rooney

June Considine

Emma Donoghue

10 / 10

Fanatic Heart is a novel by which writer?

Cormac McCarthy

John Banville

Colm Tóibín

Thomas Keneally

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