Statistics for A-Z Encyclopedic Quiz of Encyclopedias

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
D	Book that focuses on word definitions	Dictionary	93%
G	Language the root words of 'encyclopedia' came from	Greek	93%
L	Language the word 'encyclopedia' comes from	Latin	93%
M	Cartographic drawings often included in articles	Map	86%
A	One way articles are organized	Alphabetically	79%
I	What articles can have in addition to text	Illustration	79%
B	Most famous encyclopedia of 20th century	Britannica	71%
R	Nationality of P	Roman	71%
U	Country where B was first published	United Kingdom	71%
W	The Free Encyclopedia	Wikipedia	71%
Y	Early web-portal and search engine popular in the early 2000s	Yahoo!	71%
Z	Animal the barcodes on the back of encyclopedias look a bit like	Zebra	64%
F	Information in encyclopedias should be this	Factual	57%
K	What encyclopedias contain	Knowledge	57%
S	Branch of mathematics dealing with the collection and presentation of data	Statistics	57%
V	City state where 'De expetendis et fugiendis rebus' by Giorgio Valla was published	Venice	50%
N	Subject the first encyclopedia wrote about	Natural History	43%
T	Prickly flower used as the logo for B	Thistle	43%
J	What game the logo of W depicts	Jigsaw puzzle	36%
O	What W is, as opposed to proprietary	Open-source	14%
P	Statesman from the 1st Century AD who wrote the first encyclopedia	Pliny the Elder	14%
Q	Rhetorician born in Hispania known for his writing (Name sounds like 10¹⁸)	Quintillian	14%
C	Famous American encyclopedia	Collier's	7%
H	Alternative way to organize articles	Hierarchical	7%
E	Digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft	Encarta	0%