| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omar Khayyám | 11th-12th centuries | The Rubáiyát | 79%
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| John Locke | 1689 | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | 71%
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| Umberto Eco | 1988 (Il pendolo di Foucault) | Foucault’s Pendulum | 63%
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| Erica Jong | 1973 | Fear of Flying | 59%
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| Euripides | c. 415 BCE | Trojan Women | 55%
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| Giorgio Bassani | 1962 (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 54%
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| Sue Townsend | 1982 | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 | 46%
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| Dashiell Hammett | 1934 | The Thin Man | 45%
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| Alan Sillitoe | 1958 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 32%
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| Raymond Queneau | 1959 (Zazie dans le Métro) | Zazie in the Metro | 32%
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| Philip K. Dick | 1969 | Ubik | 27%
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| J. K. Huysmans | 1884 (À rebours) | Against Nature | 25%
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| Italo Calvino | 1957 (Il barone rampante) | The Baron in the Trees | 25%
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| Ben Okri | 1991 | The Famished Road | 23%
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| Leslie Marmon Silko | 1977 | Ceremony | 16%
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| Matthew Lewis | 1796 | The Monk | 14%
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| John Crowley | 1981 | Little, Big | 13%
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| Eric Ambler | 1939 | The Mask of Dimitrios | 13%
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| Sándor Márai | 1942 | Embers | 11%
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| Alejo Carpentier | 1953 (Los pasos perdidos) | The Lost Steps | 9%
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