Statistics for Literature by Letter - S

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Generally considered the most significant of English playwrights	William Shakespeare	99%
Creator of The Cat in the Hat and the Lorax	Dr. Seuss	86%
Heroine of "Gone with the Wind" (first name)	Scarlett O'Hara	83%
Mystical Tibetan paradise first mentioned in James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon"	{Shangri}-La	80%
His archnemesis was Professor Moriarty (first name)	Sherlock Holmes	80%
Baghdadi sailor who went on seven naval adventures	Sinbad	72%
Maya Angelou knows why the caged bird does this	Sings	72%
Kurt Vonnegut novel about the firebombing of Dresden	{Slaughterhouse}-Five	68%
He wrote "Treasure Island"	Robert Louis Stevenson	66%
The "Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (first name)	Sweeney Todd	65%
Dragon that inhabited the Lonely Mountain in Middle Earth	Smaug	58%
Abolitionist author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"	Harriet Beecher Stowe	50%
Astronomer and author of "Cosmos"	Carl Sagan	49%
Creator of the "Goosebumps" children's series and adult horror novels	R.L. Stine	48%
Knighted Scottish author who wrote "Ivanhoe" and "Rob Roy"	Sir Walter Scott	47%
Irish playwright who wrote "Pygmalion" and "Man and Superman"	George Bernard Shaw	46%
Writer of children's poetry who knows where the sidewalk ends	Shel Silverstein	34%
Hemingway novel that features the running of the bulls	Sun Also Rises, The	29%
Book by Rachel Carson that documents the negative effects of DDT	Silent Spring	27%
Sci-fi book by Robert A. Heinlein featuring fascist humans fighting bug-like aliens	Starship Troopers	22%