Statistics for Literature by Letter - E

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Opposite of a prologue	Epilogue	97%
The capital of Oz	{Emerald} City	94%
Brontë sister who wrote "Wuthering Heights"	Emily	93%
Scrooge's first name	Ebenezer	89%
Work that is vast, heroic, and long. "The Odyssey", for example	Epic	88%
Jane Austen novel. (Hint: a woman's name)	Emma	82%
Oscar Wilde play: The Importance of Being _______	Earnest	81%
Legendary sword of King Arthur	Excalibur	80%
This was written on cakes in "Alice in Wonderland"	{Eat} {Me}	70%
This Greenland discoverer was the subject of an Icelandic saga	Erik the Red	60%
Powerful wand owned by Dumbledore	{Elder} Wand	57%
Funeral oration, or the carving on a tombstone	Epitaph	51%
One of the few Biblical books that follows a female character	Esther	48%
Using a mild term in place of a more explicit one. "With child", for example	Euphemism	47%
First name of "Brideshead Revisited " author Waugh (also the name of his first wife)	Evelyn	47%
Third book of the "Twilight" series	Eclipse	44%
Italian author of "The Name of the Rose"	Umberto Eco	38%
Leader of the Transcendentalist movement and mentor of Thoreau	Ralph Waldo Emerson	28%
Boy detective featured in a series of children's books	{Encyclopedia} Brown	25%
Hamlet's castle	Elsinore	20%