Statistics for Edgar Allen Poe Story Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Annabelle Lee lived in a kingdom by the ___.	Sea	82%
What is the physical abnormality of the old man that drives the killer to hate him in “The Tell-Tale Heart”?	Glass eye	59%
What is the title character’s first name in “The Fall of the House of Usher”?	Roderick	41%
In the story “The Murders In the Rue Morgue” who (or what) did it?	Orangutan	36%
What is the name of the party’s host in “The Masque of the Red Death”?	Prince Prospero	36%
What character gets holed up in a wall in “The Cask of Amontillado”?	Fortunato	32%
Who is the principal detective in Poe’s mystery stories?	C. Auguste Dupin	27%
What tribunal sentences the narrator to death in “The Pit and the Pendulum”?	Spanish Inquisition	23%
In what U.S. state does “The Gold Bug” take place?	South Carolina	14%
What does the main character hold on to in order to survive in “A Descent Into the Maelstrom”?	Barrel	0%
What malady did the narrator of “The Premature Burial” apparently suffer from?	Catalepsy	0%
Which relatively obscure Native American tribe is mentioned in “The Man Who Was Used Up”?	Kickapoo	0%
Which religious founder’s so-called “prophecy” is implied in “Silence-A Fable”?	Muhammad	0%
What magazine did Poe’s stories first appear in?	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	0%
In the story “Hop-Frog,” who is Hop-Frog’s love interest?	Trippetta	0%