| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Generally considered the most significant of English playwrights | William Shakespeare | 99%
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| Creator of The Cat in the Hat and the Lorax | Dr. Seuss | 87%
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| Heroine of "Gone with the Wind" (first name) | Scarlett O'Hara | 81%
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| His archnemesis was Professor Moriarty (first name) | Sherlock Holmes | 80%
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| Mystical Tibetan paradise first mentioned in James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon" | {Shangri}-La | 78%
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| Maya Angelou knows why the caged bird does this | Sings | 72%
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| Baghdadi sailor who went on seven naval adventures | Sinbad | 70%
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| Kurt Vonnegut novel about the firebombing of Dresden | {Slaughterhouse}-Five | 69%
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| He wrote "Treasure Island" | Robert Louis Stevenson | 65%
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| The "Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (first name) | Sweeney Todd | 65%
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| Dragon that inhabited the Lonely Mountain in Middle Earth | Smaug | 58%
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| Abolitionist author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 49%
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| Astronomer and author of "Cosmos" | Carl Sagan | 47%
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| Creator of the "Goosebumps" children's series and adult horror novels | R.L. Stine | 47%
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| Knighted Scottish author who wrote "Ivanhoe" and "Rob Roy" | Sir Walter Scott | 46%
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| Irish playwright who wrote "Pygmalion" and "Man and Superman" | George Bernard Shaw | 45%
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| Writer of children's poetry who knows where the sidewalk ends | Shel Silverstein | 33%
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| Hemingway novel that features the running of the bulls | Sun Also Rises, The | 28%
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| Book by Rachel Carson that documents the negative effects of DDT | Silent Spring | 27%
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| Sci-fi book by Robert A. Heinlein featuring fascist humans fighting bug-like aliens | Starship Troopers | 21%
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