Statistics for The Life of George Orwell

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Year that Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final published work	1948	88%
He was born in this colony of the British Empire	British {India}	88%
His birth name	Eric Arthur Blair	88%
Orwell satirised the leadership of this country in his book Animal Farm	Soviet Union	88%
Orwell was shot in the throat while fighting in this war	Spanish Civil War	88%
Year that George Orwell was born	1903	75%
After leaving school, he worked as an imperial policeman in this colony	Burma	75%
	London	63%
His first published work was an account of his time living in poverty in these two cities	Paris	63%
Infectious lung disease that caused Orwell's death	Tuberculosis	63%
He also wrote an account of poverty among coal miners in this northern English town	Wigan	50%
Prestigious boarding school that Orwell attended from age 13 to 18	Eton College	38%
Orwell's pen name was inspired by this geographical feature in Suffolk	{River} Orwell	38%
Organisation for which he worked as a journalist	The BBC	38%
He famously described his family as belonging to this social class	{Lower-upper-middle} class	13%