British and Irish Writers - with Pictures - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Frankenstein (1797-1851)	Mary Shelley	93%
The Tempest (1564-1616)	William Shakespeare	91%
Harry Potter Series (1965)	J. K. Rowling	89%
The Hobbit (1892-1973)	J. R. R. Tolkien	89%
David Copperfield (1812-1870)	Charles Dickens	88%
Animal Farm (1903-1950)	George Orwell	88%
Sense and Sensibility (1775-1817)	Jane Austen	88%
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1854-1900)	Oscar Wilde	88%
Murder on the Orient Express (1890-1976)	Agatha Christie	87%
Jane Eyre (1816-1855)	Charlotte Bronte	87%
The Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)	Geoffrey Chaucer	87%
Wuthering Heights (1818-1848)	Emily Bronte	86%
Dracula (1847-1912)	Bram Stoker	82%
The Jungle Book (1865-1936)	Rudyard Kipling	80%
Casino Royale (1908-1964)	Ian Fleming	75%
The Chronicles of Narnia (1898-1963)	C. S. Lewis	74%
Brave New World (1894-1963)	Aldous Huxley	72%
Matilda (1916-1990)	Roald Dahl	71%
Paradise Lost (1608-1674)	John Milton	70%
Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)	Daniel Defoe	68%
Gulliver's Travels (1667-1745)	Jonathan Swift	68%
The Time Machine (1866-1946)	H. G. Wells	67%
Utopia (1478-1535)	Thomas More	66%
Mrs Dalloway (1882-1941)	Virginia Woolf	66%
Winnie-the-Pooh (1882-1956)	A. A. Milne	65%
Lord of the Flies (1911-1993)	William Golding	65%
Pygmalion (1856-1950)	George Bernard Shaw	61%
Finnegans Wake (1882-1941)	James Joyce	61%
Auld Lang Syne (1759-1796)	Robert Burns	58%
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1866-1943)	Beatrix Potter	57%
Jabberwocky (1832-1898)	Lewis Carroll	57%
Waiting for Godot (1906-1986)	Samuel Beckett	55%
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1850-1894)	Robert Louis Stevenson	54%
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1840-1928)	Thomas Hardy	53%
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (1952-2001)	Douglas Adams	51%
Middle March (1819-1880)	George Eliot	51%
Ivanhoe (1771-1832)	Walter Scott	50%
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1885-1930)	D. H. Lawrence	49%
Don Juan (1788-1824)	Lord George Byron	48%
Rebecca (1907-1989)	Daphne du Maurier	47%
Peter Pan (1860-1937)	J. M. Barrie	46%
Ozymandias (1792-1822)	Percy Bysshe Shelley	46%
Discworld (1948-2015)	Terry Pratchett	45%
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1809-1892)	Alfred Lord Tennyson	44%
Vanity Fair (1811-1863)	William Makepeace Thackeray	44%
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1795-1821)	John Keats	43%
A Dictionary of the English Language (1709-1784)	Samuel Johnson	43%
A Clockwork Orange (1917-1993)	Anthony Burgess	41%
The Sandman (1960)	Neil Gaiman	38%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1917-2008)	Arthur C. Clarke	37%
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1931-2020)	John le Carre	37%
Do not go gentle into that good night (1914-1953)	Dylan Thomas	36%
A Room with a View (1879-1970)	E. M. Forster	33%
The Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)	John Bunyan	32%
The Wind in the Willows (1859-1932)	Kenneth Grahame	31%
H. M. S. Pinafore (1836-1911)	W. S. Gilbert	31%
Tamburlaine the Great (1564-1593)	Christopher Marlowe	30%
The Lost World (1859-1930)	Arthur Conan Doyle	28%
I, Claudius (1895-1985)	Robert Graves	28%
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1757-1827)	William Blake	28%
The Faerie Queene (1553-1599)	Edmund Spenser	24%
Father Brown (1874-1936)	G. K. Chesterton	24%
The Tower (1865-1939)	William Butler Yeats	24%
Of Human Bondage (1874-1965)	William Somerset Maugham	24%
The Prelude (1770-1850)	William Wordsworth	21%
Lyrical Ballads (1772-1834)	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	19%
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh (1806-1861)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	18%
Decline and Fall (1903-1966)	Evelyn Waugh	17%
Tristam Shandy (1713-1768)	Laurence Sterne	17%
The Alchemist (1572-1637)	Ben Jonson	16%
Murder in the Cathedral (1888-1965)	T. S. Eliot	16%
The Dunciad (1688-1744)	Alexander Pope	15%
Chronicles of Barsetshire (1815-1882)	Anthony Trollope	15%
Eye of the Needle (1949)	Ken Follett	14%
Mary Barton (1810-1865)	Elizabeth Gaskell	11%
Ignatius His Conclave (1572-1631)	John Donne	10%