Context
The period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War
What is the Cold War?
The name of the newspaper Winston writes for
What is 'The Times'?
Winston's wife
Who is Katharine?
The missing word in the below quote:
‘Winston, Winston!’ his mother called after him. ‘Come back! Give your sister back her __________!’
What is 'chocolate'?
The name of the department where Julia works
What is the Fiction Department?
The political ideology espoused by Orwell from 1936 onwards:
'every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for ________________'
What is democratic socialism?
The name of the structures that guard strategic spots on the sea lanes at the frontiers of Oceania
What are Floating Fortresses?
The person who first knocks on Winston's door at the end of Part 1, Chapter 1
Who is Mrs Parsons?
The missing words in the below quote:
The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out ‘_____! _____! _____!
What is 'Swine! Swine! Swine!'?
The fragment inside Winston's glass paperweight
What is coral?
The famous English writer who Orwell described as 'a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls'
Who is Charles Dickens?
The name of the book by Emmanuel Goldstein, given to Winston by O'Brien
What is 'The Principles of Oligarchical Collectivism'?
The character this is in reference to:
'The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter.'
Who is Mr Charrington?
The missing words in the below quote:
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the ____, the ______ and the ___.
What is 'High', 'Middle', 'Low'?
The percentage population of proles in Oceania
What is 85%?
The name of Orwell's memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in two cities
What is Down and Out in Paris and London?
The plant used to flavour Victory Gin in the Chestnut Tree Café
What is clove?
The 'mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature' who also works in the Records Department, who Winston believes writes poetry for the Party; ends up in the Minstry of Love too
Who is Ampleforth?
The missing words in the below quote:
The command of the old despotisms was “Thou shalt not”. The command of the totalitarians was “Thou shalt”. Our command is “____ ___”
What is 'Thou art'?
The edition of the Newspeak Dictionary considered, in the Appendix, as the 'final, perfected version'; referred to by Syme.
What is the 'Eleventh Edition'?
The boarding school Orwell attended between 8 and 13, described in his book Such, Such Were the Joys
What is St. Cyprian's School?
The technical term for Orwell's invented words (like thoughtcrime, Newspeak, unperson); literally 'a newly coined word or expression'
What is 'neologism'?
O'Brien's servant
Who is Martin?
The missing word in the below quote:
Winston was __________ with fatigue. ________ was the right word.
What is 'gelatinous'?
The nickname given to rocket bombs by the proles
What is 'steamer'?