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George Orwell Trivia Quiz: Test Your Knowledge About Orwell’s Life and Works


Quiz Questions


  1. What was George Orwell's real name?
  2. In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, what is the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the ruling party?
  3. What type of animal is Boxer in Animal Farm?
  4. Orwell wrote about his experiences in The Spanish Civil War in which novel?
  5. What is the name of the leading pig in "Animal Farm"?
  6. Finish the George Orwell quote: "All animals are equal, but some animals are..."?
  7. Which of Orwell’s novels features the slogan: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"?1984
  8. Which Orwell novel opens with the line: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"?
  9. What is the last name of the owner of Manor Farm in "Animal Farm"?
  10. Which hardy plant, popular as a houseplant in Victorian England, features in the title of George Orwell's socially critical novel published in 1936?
  11. What inspired him to choose the pen name Orwell?
  12. Which Orwell book depicts the harsh life of working-class miners in Northern England?
  13. Can you name the protagonist of 1984?
  14. Which slogan serves as a constant reminder that Party members are not entitled to privacy?
  15. Orwell’s essay "A Hanging" is based on his experiences in which country?
  16. Snowball, a character in the novel Animal Farm, was largely based on which political figure?
  17. What illness caused George Orwell's death at the age of 46?
  18. Orwell was born in 1903 in which counry?
  19. In the dystopian novel 1984, what is the fictional language of Oceania?
  20. Orwell's first full-length work is about poverty in which two capital cities?
  21. By what name was Great Britain known as in the novel 1984?
  22. What term coined by Orwell describes the ability to believe that two conflicting ideas can be true at once?
  23. Orwell completed Nineteen Eighty-Four while living on which Scottish island?
  24. What alternative title did Orwell consider naming the novel 1984?
  25. Which room is the basement torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in Nineteen Eighty-Four
  26. What term meaning a state of hostilities between countries not at war, first appeared in Orwell's 1945 essay: 'You and the Atomic Bomb'?


Answers


  1. Eric Arthur Blair
  2. Thoughtcrime
  3. Horse
  4. Homage to Catalonia
  5. Napoleon
  6. More equal than others (All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others)
  7. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
  9. Mr Jones
  10. Aspidistra (Keep the Aspidistra Flying)
  11. River Orwell in Suffolk
  12. The Road to Wigan Pier
  13. Winston Smith
  14. Big Brother is watching you
  15. Burma (now Myanmar)
  16. Leon Trotsky
  17. Tuberculosis
  18. India
  19. Newspeak
  20. London and Paris (Down and Out in Paris and London)
  21. Airstrip One
  22. Doublethink
  23. Isle of Jura
  24. The Last Man in Europe
  25. Room 101
  26. Cold war