Statistics for Literature by Letter - P

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A flying boy who lives in Neverland	Peter Pan	99%
Sonnets, limericks, haikus, for example	Poetry	98%
In Greek mythology, she opened a forbidden box	Pandora	97%
The story of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy	Pride and Prejudice	82%
A word that is spelled the same written forwards or backwards	Palindrome	79%
The common term for a false name used to disguise the identity of an author	{Pen} Name	77%
Superhumanly strong, red-pig-tailed Swedish girl (first name)	Pippi	71%
George Bernard Shaw play that was the basis for the musical "My Fair Lady"	Pygmalion	57%
Epic poem by John Milton about the biblical fall of man	Paradise Lost	55%
This swashbuckling English swordsman rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine	The Scarlet {Pimpernel}	54%
Somewhere between "Inferno" and "Paradiso" lies this second part of the "Divine Comedy"	Purgatorio	53%
Charles Dickens's first novel	{Pickwick} Papers, The	52%
A mischievous fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"	Puck	49%
Creator of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	45%
He wrote "The Godfather" novels	Mario Puzo	44%
Sorcerer who is the protagonist of Shakespeare's "The Tempest"	Prospero	28%
The name of Mr. Darcy's estate in Derbyshire	Pemberley	26%
Term used to describe text that is overly ornate	{Purple} Prose	24%
Captain Ahab's whaling ship	Pequod	20%
James Joyce's first novel, featuring his alter-ego, Stephen Dedalus	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A	20%