| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Fairytale heroine who had a glass slipper and fairy godmother | Cinderella | 99%
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| Brontë sister or web-creator | Charlotte | 91%
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| Dickens holiday book featuring Scrooge | Christmas Carol, A | 87%
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| Juliet's family name | Capulet | 86%
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| Terrible one-eyed giant encountered in the "Odyssey" | Cyclops | 80%
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| Gabriel García Márquez's home country | Colombia | 75%
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| King Arthur's castle | Camelot | 74%
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| Stephen King character who had the world's worst prom | Carrie | 70%
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| This Joseph Heller novel's title became slang for an unwinnable situation | Catch-22 | 68%
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| Author who created Inspector Poirot | Agatha Christie | 67%
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| Working-class accent of Elizabeth Doolittle in "Pygmalion" | Cockney | 65%
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| Ancient editor (and possible author) of many classic Chinese texts | Confucius | 64%
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| Dostoyevsky's most famous novel - about a murderer and his guilty conscience | Crime and Punishment | 64%
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| A pair of lines in poetry, often rhyming | Couplet | 59%
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| City to which Chaucer's pilgrims were headed | Canterbury | 58%
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| In a Mark Twain story, a Yankee from this place is transported to King Arthur's court | Connecticut | 42%
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| Voltaire's most famous work, subtitled "The Optimist" | Candide | 39%
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| Terrifying sleeping god created by H.P. Lovecraft | Cthulhu | 35%
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| Author of children's novels such as "Ramona the Pest" | Beverly Cleary | 20%
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| He wrote "Ender's Game" | Orson Scott Card | 19%
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