| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Year that Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final published work | 1948 | 92%
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| He was born in this colony of the British Empire | British {India} | 92%
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| Orwell satirised the leadership of this country in his book Animal Farm | Soviet Union | 92%
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| Orwell was shot in the throat while fighting in this war | Spanish Civil War | 83%
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| After leaving school, he worked as an imperial policeman in this colony | Burma | 79%
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| His birth name | Eric Arthur Blair | 79%
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| Year that George Orwell was born | 1903 | 75%
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| Prestigious boarding school that Orwell attended from age 13 to 18 | Eton College | 75%
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| His first published work was an account of his time living in poverty in these two cities | Paris | 75%
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| Infectious lung disease that caused Orwell's death | Tuberculosis | 75%
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| London | 71%
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| He also wrote an account of poverty among coal miners in this northern English town | Wigan | 54%
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| Organisation for which he worked as a journalist | The BBC | 42%
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| Orwell's pen name was inspired by this geographical feature in Suffolk | {River} Orwell | 38%
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| He famously described his family as belonging to this social class | {Lower-upper-middle} class | 21%
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