| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Austen | 1818 | Persuasion | 89%
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| Arthur C. Clarke | 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 88%
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| Hippocrates et al. | c. 5th century BCE-c. 2nd century CE | Hippocratic Corpus | 83%
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| Benjamin Spock | 1946 | The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | 79%
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| Nicolaus Copernicus | 1543 (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium) | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | 73%
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| Milan Kundera | 1984 (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 66%
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| George Eliot | 1860 | The Mill on the Floss | 65%
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| Dale Carnegie | 1936 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | 61%
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| Graham Greene | 1951 | The End of the Affair | 55%
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| Edith Wharton | 1911 | Ethan Frome | 54%
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| Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | Never Let Me Go | 50%
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| Giacomo Casanova | 1960 (Histoire de ma vie) | History of My Life | 47%
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| Aeschylus | some time between 479 BCE and 424 BCE | Prometheus Bound | 45%
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| E. Annie Proulx | 1993 | The Shipping News | 45%
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| Randy Shilts | 1987 | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | 38%
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| Lytton Strachey | 1918 | Eminent Victorians | 34%
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| Saul Bellow | 1959 | Henderson the Rain King | 27%
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| Claude Lévi-Strauss | 1955 | Tristes Tropiques | 27%
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| John Reed | 1919 | Ten Days that Shook the World | 26%
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| André Gide | 1947 | Journals: 1889-1913 | 23%
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