| Author | Country of origin | Year | A character | Another character | A place in the novel | Novel | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homer | Greece | c. 8th c. BC | Achilles | Helen | Troy | [The] Illiad | I | 82%
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| John Steinbeck | USA | 1937 | Lennie Small | Curley's wife | a ranch in California | Of Mice and Men | O | 74%
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| George Orwell | UK | 1949 | O'Brien | Emmanuel Goldstein | Oceania | Nineteen Eighty-Four | N | 62%
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| Miguel de Cervantes | Spain | 1605-1615 | Dulcinea del Toboso | Rocinante | windmills | Don Quixote | D | 56%
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| Emily Brontë | UK | 1847 | Heathcliff | Catherine | Thrushcross Grange | Wuthering Heights | W | 56%
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| Mary Shelley | UK | 1818 | Robert Walton | the Creature | North Pole | Frankenstein | F | 51%
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| Gabriel García Márquez | Argentina | 1967 | José Arcadio Buendía | Amaranta Úrsula | Macondo | One Hundred Years of Solitude | O | 51%
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| Margaret Mitchell | USA | 1936 | Gerald O'Hara | Ashley Wilkes | Atlanta | Gone With The Wind | G | 50%
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| Leo Tolstoy | Russia | 1878 | Alexei Vronsky | Stepan "Stiva" Oblonsky | Saint Petersburg | Anna Karenina | A | 40%
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| Charles Dickens | UK | 1860-1861 | Philip "Pip" Pirrip | Estella | Satis House | Great Expectations | G | 37%
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| Daniel Defoe | Great Britain | 1719 | Friday | Xury | Brazil | Robinson Crusoe | R | 35%
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| Chinua Achebe | Nigeria | 1958 | Okonkwo | Ikemefuna | Umuofia | Things Fall Apart | T | 35%
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| Jack Kerouac | USA | 1957 | Sal Paradise | Dean Moriarty | New York | On The Road | O | 34%
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| Franz Kafka | (Austria-Hungary) | (1914) 1925 | Josef K. | Fräulein Bürstner | court | The Trial | T | 32%
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| Samuel Beckett | Ireland/France | 1953 | Vladimir | Estragon | near a tree | Waiting for Godot | 28%
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| Marcel Proust | France | 1913–1927 | Gilberte Swann | Odette de Crécy | Combray | In Search of Lost Time | I | 26%
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