| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 85%
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| “‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.” | “In Memoriam A.H.H.” | Alfred Tennyson | 64%
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| “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach.” | “How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)” | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 62%
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| “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 57%
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| “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” | The Fellowship of the Ring | J. R. R. Tolkien | 53%
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| “Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f***in junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total f***in embarrassment tae the selfish, f***ed-up brats ye’ve produced. Choose life.” | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 51%
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| “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies: ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine | Kurt Vonnegut | 49%
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| “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” | The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | 47%
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| “Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker” | “Reflections on Ice-Breaking” | Ogden Nash | 42%
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| “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” | A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | 28%
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