Which Ian McEwan novel won the 1998 Booker Prize?
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Amsterdam
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Penelope Fitzgerald novel won the 1979 Booker Prize?
Answer
Offshore
Which Booker-winning William Golding novel begins the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy?
Answer
Rites of Passage
Which 1972 Booker winner wrote the novel G.?
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John Berger
Which novel gave J. M. Coetzee his first Booker Prize?
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Life & Times of Michael K
Which Graham Swift novel won the 1996 Booker Prize?
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Last Orders
Which Pat Barker novel won the 1995 Booker Prize?
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The Ghost Road
Which Anita Brookner novel won the 1984 Booker Prize?
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Hotel du Lac
Who won the 1987 Booker Prize for Moon Tiger?
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Penelope Lively
Which Damon Galgut novel won the 2021 Booker Prize?
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The Promise
Which Eleanor Catton novel won the 2013 Booker Prize?
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The Luminaries
Which Aravind Adiga novel won the 2008 Booker Prize?
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The White Tiger
Which Anne Enright novel won the 2007 Booker Prize?
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The Gathering
Which Peter Carey novel won the 2001 Booker Prize?
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Which novel won the 1993 Booker of Bookers prize?
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Midnight's Children
Which special 2018 award did 'The English Patient' win?
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The Golden Man Booker
Which author won the 2020 Booker Prize for 'Shuggie Bain'?
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Douglas Stuart
Which subphylum includes arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders?
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Chelicerata
What spider genus includes the golden silk orb-weavers?
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Trichonephila
What is the scientific name of the Indian ornamental tarantula?
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Poecilotheria regalis
What is the scientific name of the Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating tarantula?
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Lasiodora parahybana
What is the scientific name of the Mediterranean recluse spider?
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Loxosceles rufescens
What family contains the medically important recluse spiders?
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Sicariidae
What spider family is commonly called orb-weavers?
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Araneidae
Which tick is a main vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the eastern United States?
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American dog tick
What is the scientific name of the lone star tick?
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Amblyomma americanum
What family contains hard ticks?
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Ixodidae
Which genus contains the bold jumping spider?
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Phidippus
Which family contains black widows and many cobweb spiders?
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Theridiidae
What respiratory organs in many arachnids have thin, page-like lamellae?
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Book lungs
What is the primary nitrogenous waste product of arachnids?
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Guanine
What genus contains the emperor scorpion?
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Pandinus
What mite is a major parasite of honey bees?
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Varroa destructor
What mite species causes scabies in humans?
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Sarcoptes scabiei
What is the scientific name of the black-legged tick?
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Ixodes scapularis
What is the scientific name of the European garden spider?
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Araneus diadematus
What is the scientific name of the Sydney funnel-web spider?
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Atrax robustus
What genus contains the brown recluse spider?
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Loxosceles
What arachnid order includes camel spiders and wind scorpions?
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Solifugae
What wild bird is the main ancestor of the domestic chicken?
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Red junglefowl
Which Atlantic hurricane formed in December 1954 and lasted into January 1955?
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Hurricane Alice
Which 1960 hurricane affected every U.S. East Coast state with hurricane-force winds?
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Hurricane Donna
Which 1980 Atlantic hurricane reached Category 5 strength on three separate occasions?
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Hurricane Allen
Which 1988 hurricane held the Atlantic pressure-intensity record until Wilma surpassed it?
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Hurricane Gilbert
What process replaces a hurricane's inner eyewall with a larger outer eyewall?
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Eyewall replacement cycle
What is the term for two nearby cyclones rotating around a common center?
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Fujiwhara effect