| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “Winter is coming.” | A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin | 89%
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| “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 86%
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| “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night . . .” | “Howl” | Allen Ginsberg | 65%
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| “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” | “Ode on a Grecian Urn” | John Keats | 62%
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| “April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” | “The Waste Land” | T. S. Eliot | 54%
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| “Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.” | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 49%
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| “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.” | Paul Clifford | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 38%
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| “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.” | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | 38%
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| “We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight” | “We Real Cool” | Gwendolyn Brooks | 30%
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| “Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.” | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | 27%
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