Words Invented by Specific People - Statistics

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Definition	Answer	Person	Year	% Correct
One who takes candid pictures of celebrities for money	Paparazzo	Federico Fellini	1960	88%
Machine, often humanoid in shape, which can carry out complex tasks	Robot	Karel Čapek	1920	88%
An imagined land with an ideal system of government	Utopia	Sir Thomas More	1516	78%
Unsettling. "He bore an _____ resemblance to..."	U{ncanny}	Sigmund Freud	1919	70%
Being which is half machine, half organic	Cyborg	Manfred Clynes	1960	63%
Defacing or damaging property, especially with graffiti	Vandalism	Henri Grégoire	1798	58%
Mystery story where a detective tries to figure out who committed the crime	W{hodunit}	Donald Gordon	1930	58%
The self aware portion of the mind	Ego	Sigmund Freud	1923	57%
Person with high intelligence but low social skill	Nerd	Dr. Seuss	1950	52%
Obvious and unashamed. "The lawyer showed a ____ disregard for the truth".	Blatant	Edmund Spenser	1596	50%
One who looks down on those of lower social class	Snob	William Makepeace Thackeray	1848	47%
A state of madness and disorder in a crowd	P{andemonium}	John Milton	1667	42%
Halfway between chuckle and snort	Chortle	Lewis Carroll	1855	38%
A worker who sells their services to many employers, rather than working as an employee	Freelance	Sir Walter Scott	1820	38%
A short description of a book or other work written for promotional purposes	Blurb	Gelett Burgess	1907	34%
A cry of joy or excitement	Y{ahoo}	Jonathan Swift	1726	34%
1950s trendster associated with berets and poetry	Beatnik	Herb Caen	1958	32%
Piece of information that spreads like a gene	Meme	Richard Dawkins	1976	29%
Journalist who looks to expose scandals	M{uckraker}	Theodore Roosevelt	1906	20%
To understand intuitively	G{rok}	Robert A. Heinlein	1961	9%

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