Statistics for Famous Writers and their Works

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General Stats

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    (212 since last reset)
  • The average score is 39 of 70

Answer Stats

Notable work(s)Author% Correct
Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsJ.K. Rowling
96%
Iliad / OdyseeyHomer
90%
Romeo and Juliet / King Lear / Othello / HamletWilliam Shakespeare
90%
Animal Farm / 1984George Orwell
86%
Oliver Twist / Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
85%
The Lord of the Rings / The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien
85%
Sense and Sensibility / Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
83%
It / The Shining / Misery / CarrieStephen King
83%
War and Peace / Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
82%
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
81%
On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
80%
Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
79%
The Old Man and the Sea / The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
78%
The Trial / The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
77%
Les Miserables / The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo
76%
Ulysses / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
75%
FrankensteinMary Shelley
75%
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
72%
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes
72%
Murder on the Orient Express / Death on the NileAgatha Christie
71%
Jane Eyre / VilletteCharlotte Brontë
71%
The Da Vinci Code / Angels & Demons / InfernoDan Brown
71%
Crime and Punishment / The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
71%
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
71%
Alice's Adventures In WonderlandLewis Carroll
69%
Stories of Sherlock Holmes / The Lost WorldArthur Conan Doyle
67%
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
65%
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
64%
Lolita / Pale FireVladimir Nabokov
63%
DraculaBram Stoker
62%
The Raven / The Masque of the Red DeathEdgar Alan Poe
62%
Journey to the Center of the EarthJules Verne
62%
The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
61%
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
61%
Moby-DickHerman Melville
60%
Mrs. Dalloway / To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf
59%
The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
58%
Stranger / The Plague / The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
56%
The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank
56%
Candide, or OptimismVoltaire
56%
FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
54%
The AeneidVirgil
54%
Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupery
52%
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift
52%
The Godfather / The SicilianMario Puzo
52%
The AlchemistPaulo Coelho
51%
Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche
48%
Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett
48%
Antigone / Oedipus the KingSophocles
48%
DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio
46%
A Song of Ice and FireGeorge R.R. Martin
45%
Demian / Steppenwolf / SiddharthaHermann Hesse
37%
Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov
36%
Tartuffe / The MisanthropeMoliere
36%
The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
35%
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov
35%
Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin
33%
Thérèse Raquin / Germinal / NanaEmile Zola
33%
Dead Souls / Taras BulbaNikolai Gogol
33%
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
32%
Father GoriotHonore de Balzac
26%
Don Juan / Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron
22%
A Passage to IndiaE.M. Forster
21%
Triumphs / Il CanzoniereFrancesco Petrarca
21%
Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev
19%
The RobbersFriedrich Schiller
10%
And Quiet Flows the DonMikhail Sholokhov
10%
The Wheel of TimeRobert Jordan
8%
Sleepwalking RomanceFederico Garcia Lorca
4%
The WaitJorge Luis Borges
4%

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