| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Dickens | 1859 | A Tale of Two Cities | 95%
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| Mark Twain | 1883 | Life on the Mississippi | 85%
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| H. G. Wells | 1895 | The Time Machine | 85%
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| John Calvin | 1536 (Institutio Christianae Religionis) | Institutes of the Christian Religion | 62%
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| Robert Frost | 1915 | The Road not Taken | 61%
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| Thomas Paine | 1791 | Rights of Man | 60%
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| Philip Roth | 1969 | Portnoy’s Complaint | 59%
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| Toni Morrison | 1977 | Song of Solomon | 54%
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| John F. Kennedy | 1956 | Profiles in Courage | 45%
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| Upton Sinclair | 1906 | The Jungle | 45%
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| Saul Bellow | 1964 | Herzog | 41%
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| William Faulkner | 1932 | Light in August | 41%
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| Anthony Powell | 1951-1975 (twelve volumes, published serially) | A Dance to the Music of Time | 34%
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| Malcolm Gladwell | 2000 | The Tipping Point | 34%
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| Ford Madox Ford | 1924-1928 (four volumes, published serially) | Parade’s End | 33%
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| Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker | 1931 | Joy of Cooking | 32%
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| Erasmus | 1509 (Stultitiae Laus) | The Praise of Folly | 19%
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| Barbara Tuchman | 1962 | The Guns of August | 18%
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| Ryszard Kapuściński | 1978 (Cesarz) | The Emperor | 14%
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| Robert Nisbet | 1953 | The Quest for Community | 14%
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