| Hint | Initials | Name Ending | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter | J. K. | Rowling | 91%
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| The Great Gatsby | F. | Scott Fitzgerald | 84%
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| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. | Tolkien | 84%
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| U.S. vice president | J. D. | Vance | 83%
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| Football player, actor, murder trial | O. J. | Simpson | 82%
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| Founded a circus | P. T. | Barnum | 79%
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| Gilded Age financier who headed bank | J. P. | Morgan | 75%
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| The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. | Lewis | 73%
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| Director of the FBI | J. | Edgar Hoover | 71%
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| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. | Salinger | 71%
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| War of the Worlds, The Time Machine | H. G. | Wells | 68%
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| The Sixth Sense | M. | Night Shyamalan | 67%
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| Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. | Milne | 65%
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| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | T. S. | Eliot | 65%
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| Scientology | L. | Ron Hubbard | 63%
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| Felicity, Star Trek, Star Wars | J. J. | Abrams | 62%
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| "The King of the Blues" | B. B. | King | 61%
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| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. | Frank Baum | 57%
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| Goosebumps | R. L. | Stine | 54%
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| Law and Order, Whiplash, Spider-Man | J. K. | Simmons | 53%
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| Lawrence of Arabia | T. E. | Lawrence | 51%
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| "The Call of Cthulhu" | H. P. | Lovecraft | 48%
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| Wrote Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little | E. B. | White | 47%
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| canadian singer-songwriter | k. d. | lang | 44%
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| Airplane hijacker of 1971 unsolved case | D. B. | Cooper | 42%
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| Peter Pan | J. M. | Barrie | 41%
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| Founded the retail company named after him | L. L. | Bean | 40%
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| Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rainbow | D. H. | Lawrence | 39%
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| South African president; helped end apartheid | F. W. | de Klerk | 36%
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| prolific american poet | e. e. | cummings | 32%
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| Founder of the NAACP | W. E. B. | Du Bois | 31%
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| A Passage to India and A Room with a View | E. M. | Forster | 30%
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| Architect of the Louvre Pyramid | I. M. | Pei | 28%
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| Artist of tessellations and infinite staircases | M. C. | Escher | 27%
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| Full Metal Jacket drill instructor | R. | Lee Ermey | 27%
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| Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love | P. J. | Harvey | 26%
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| Director: The Birth of a Nation | D. W. | Griffith | 24%
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| The Outsiders | S. E. | Hinton | 20%
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| Psychologist: radical behaviorism | B. F. | Skinner | 19%
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| "Biomechanical" artist: Alien xenomorph | H. R. | Giger | 14%
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