Statistics for British and Irish Writers - with Pictures

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Answer	% Correct
William Shakespeare	94%
Mary Shelley	93%
J. K. Rowling	91%
Agatha Christie	90%
Charles Dickens	90%
J. R. R. Tolkien	90%
Geoffrey Chaucer	89%
George Orwell	89%
Jane Austen	89%
Charlotte Bronte	88%
Oscar Wilde	88%
Emily Bronte	87%
Bram Stoker	82%
Rudyard Kipling	82%
Ian Fleming	79%
C. S. Lewis	76%
Roald Dahl	75%
Aldous Huxley	72%
A. A. Milne	69%
H. G. Wells	69%
John Milton	69%
Thomas More	67%
Daniel Defoe	66%
Jonathan Swift	66%
Virginia Woolf	65%
William Golding	65%
James Joyce	64%
Robert Burns	63%
Beatrix Potter	62%
George Bernard Shaw	62%
Lewis Carroll	60%
Douglas Adams	54%
George Eliot	53%
Thomas Hardy	53%
Samuel Beckett	52%
D. H. Lawrence	51%
Robert Louis Stevenson	51%
J. M. Barrie	50%
Walter Scott	50%
Terry Pratchett	49%
Alfred Lord Tennyson	47%
Daphne du Maurier	46%
Lord George Byron	46%
Percy Bysshe Shelley	46%
William Makepeace Thackeray	46%
John Keats	44%
Samuel Johnson	43%
Neil Gaiman	41%
Anthony Burgess	40%
Dylan Thomas	39%
John le Carre	39%
Arthur C. Clarke	38%
W. S. Gilbert	36%
E. M. Forster	34%
John Bunyan	34%
Kenneth Grahame	34%
Christopher Marlowe	30%
Arthur Conan Doyle	28%
Robert Graves	28%
G. K. Chesterton	27%
Edmund Spenser	26%
William Blake	26%
William Butler Yeats	24%
William Somerset Maugham	24%
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	20%
William Wordsworth	20%
Evelyn Waugh	18%
Anthony Trollope	17%
Laurence Sterne	17%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	17%
Ben Jonson	15%
Ken Follett	15%
T. S. Eliot	15%
Alexander Pope	14%
Elizabeth Gaskell	11%
John Donne	10%