| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| Q | Spanish "Don" who tilted at windmills | Quixote | 94%
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| Q | The main text of Islam | Quran, the | 94%
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| Q | Name of the hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | 92%
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| Q | Harry Potter's favorite sport | Quidditch | 91%
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| Z | This masked swordsman of California was featured in many pulp novels | Zorro | 82%
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| Y | Genre abbreviated YA | Young Adult | 74%
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| Z | Boris Pasternak novel that was smuggled out of (and back into) the USSR | Doctor {Zhivago} | 72%
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| Q | Ogden Nash quote: Candy is dandy, but liquor is _______ | Quicker | 68%
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| Z | German term meaning roughly "the spirit of the times" | Zeitgeist | 63%
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| Y | Irish poet who wrote these lines: "The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart" | W. B. Yeats | 62%
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| Y | Mark Twain novel: A Connecticut ______ in King Arthur's Court | Yankee | 59%
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| X | Coleridge line: "In ______ did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" | Xanadu | 56%
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| Z | Nikos Kazantzakis novel about a Greek man with a lust for life | {Zorba} the Greek | 56%
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| Y | Book of stories by Dr. Seuss | {Yertle} the Turtle | 55%
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| Y | Alas, I knew this poor Hamlet character well. Now he is just a skull. | Yorick | 50%
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| Z | This and the art of motorcycle maintenance | Zen | 50%
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| Z | Novel by Friedrich Nietzsche about an ancient Iranian prophet. It is either very profound or complete nonsense. | Thus Spoke {Zarathustra} | 46%
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| Q | Poem or stanza consisting of four lines | Quatrain | 30%
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| Z | Harlem Renaissance author who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" | {Zora} Neale Hurston | 30%
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| Y | "Catch-22" pilot who was afraid of dying | Yossarian | 23%
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