Gabriel García Márquez quiz
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Which prize did García Márquez win in 1982?
Answer: Nobel Prize
Why: He was the fourth Latin American to win it for literature, after Gabriela Mistral, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Pablo Neruda.
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What did García Márquez wear to accept his Nobel Prize?
Answer: A liqui liqui
Why: The white suit is now held by the National Library of Colombia, together with his Nobel medal and diploma.
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What does the dictator in The Autumn of the Patriarch sell to the US?
Answer: The sea
Why: In the novel, the Americans carry the Caribbean Sea off to Arizona, leaving a huge dusty crater behind.
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Which town is the setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Answer: Macondo
Why: He took the name from a sign at a banana plantation near Aracataca, the town where he was born.
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What did García Márquez study at university?
Answer: law
Why: When the 1948 Bogotazo riots shut the National University in Bogotá, he moved his law studies to Cartagena.
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Where does a couple lock up the very old man with enormous wings?
Answer: A chicken coop
Why: Charging five cents a look, Pelayo and Elisenda earn enough to build themselves a mansion.
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