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Famous People Who Were Reclusive, Anonymous, or Very Private - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 82 times
- The average score is 10 of 17
Answer Stats
| Years | Hint | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1818–1848 | Author of Wuthering Heights who lived a quiet, isolated life in Yorkshire | Emily Brontë | 91%
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| 1926–2016 | Author of To Kill a Mockingbird who shunned interviews for fifty years | Harper Lee | 85%
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| 1993–2021 | French electronic duo who kept their identities hidden behind robot helmets | Daft Punk | 83%
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| 1990s– | Anonymous British street artist known for political stencil art | Banksy | 82%
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| 1919–2010 | Vanished from public life after publishing The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 81%
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| 1928–1999 | Film director of 2001: A Space Odyssey known for his secrecy | Stanley Kubrick | 74%
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| 1905–1976 | Eccentric billionaire aviator who became a hermit in later life | Howard Hughes | 72%
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| 1830–1886 | American poet who rarely left her house in Amherst, Massachusetts | Emily Dickinson | 58%
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| 1848–1903 | French painter who abandoned Europe to live and paint in Tahiti | Paul Gauguin | 56%
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| 1933–2023 | Wrote The Road and No Country for Old Men; rarely granted interviews | Cormac McCarthy | 54%
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| 1905–1990 | Swedish actress who retired young and lived privately in New York | Greta Garbo | 51%
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| 1950– | Cartoonist of The Far Side who withdrew from public view after 1995 | Gary Larson | 50%
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| 1871–1922 | French novelist who wrote In Search of Lost Time from a cork-lined room | Marcel Proust | 45%
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| 1946–2006 | Former Pink Floyd frontman who lived in isolation in Cambridge | Syd Barrett | 42%
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| 1937– | Gravity's Rainbow novelist who avoids photos and interviews | Thomas Pynchon | 40%
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| 1958– | Calvin and Hobbes creator who quit cartooning and disappeared from media | Bill Watterson | 28%
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| 1943– | The Tree of Life director who is famously protective of his private life | Terrence Malick | 21%
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