| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Realm of the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow | Oz | 97%
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| Author of "1984" and "Animal Farm" | George Orwell | 95%
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| A poem in praise of something. For example, "___ to Joy" | Ode | 95%
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| Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule Poirot | Murder on the {Orient} Express | 93%
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| Dickens orphan who would like some more gruel (first name) | Oliver | 93%
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| Considered the most authoritative and scholarly English dictionary | {Oxford} English Dictionary | 93%
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| Sequel to the "Iliad", telling of the journey home after the fall of Troy | Odyssey, The | 88%
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| Shakespeare's "Moorish play", or the titular character in said play | Othello | 86%
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| Greek hero famous for accidentally killing his father and marrying his mother | Oedipus | 81%
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| Pulitzer-winning Hemingway novella in which Santiago struggles with a giant marlin | {Old} {Man} and the Sea, the | 81%
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| A self-contradicting statement, such as "jumbo shrimp" | Oxymoron | 81%
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| Hamlet's love interest | Ophelia | 77%
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| A word that sounds like the noise it is describing - buzz, click, grunt, for example | Onomatopoeia | 73%
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| Ken Kesey book about an Oregon psychiatric hospital. The movie version won 5 Academy Awards. | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 63%
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| Children's book about a boy who had to shoot his beloved yellow dog | Old Yeller | 60%
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| Famous words of Lady MacBeth | {Out} Damn'd Spot | 59%
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| One of ancient Roman's three canonical poets. Author of "Metamorphoses" | Ovid | 59%
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| This Catholic group were cast as villains in "The Da Vinci Code" | {Opus} Dei | 58%
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| Nonsense poem by Edward Lear about four animals in a pea green boat | {Owl} and the Pussycat, the | 57%
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| Author of "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" | Barack Obama | 45%
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