Statistics for Great British Literature - Authors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1649)	1646 Westminster Assembly	100%
The Somonyng of Everyman (1510)	Unknown	100%
Beowulf (975)	Unknown	100%
Jane Eyre (1847)	Charlotte Bronte	96%
Wuthering Heights (1847)	Emily Bronte	96%
Hamlet (1602)	William Shakespeare	96%
Pride and Prejudice (1813)	Jane Austen	94%
Frankenstein (1818)	Mary Shelley	94%
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)	Charles Dickens	93%
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)	J. K. Rowling	93%
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)	Agatha Christie	90%
1984 (1949)	George Orwell	89%
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)	Oscar Wilde	89%
The Canterbury Tales (1387)	Geoffrey Chaucer	88%
Dracula (1897)	Bram Stoker	87%
The Hobbit (1937)	J. R. R. Tolkien	87%
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)	Arthur Conan Doyle	86%
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)	Roald Dahl	85%
The Jungle Book (1894)	Rudyard Kipling	85%
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)	C. S. Lewis	84%
Brave New World (1932)	Aldous Huxley	83%
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)	Lewis Carroll	83%
Treasure Island (1882)	Robert Louis Stevenson	83%
Paradise Lost (1671)	John Milton	82%
Gulliver’s Travels (1726)	Jonathan Swift	79%
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)	Virginia Woolf	79%
Lord of the Flies (1954)	William Golding	79%
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)	A. A. Milne	72%
The Time Machine (1895)	H. G. Wells	72%
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer (1899)	Joseph Conrad	71%
The Satanic Verses (1889)	Salman Rushdie	71%
Rebecca (1938)	Daphne du Maurier	70%
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)	James Joyce	69%
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)	Beatrix Potter	68%
Pygmalion (1913)	George Bernard Shaw	67%
Ivanhoe (1820)	Walter Scott	67%
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981)	Douglas Adams	63%
Watership Down (1972)	Richard Adams	63%
Waiting For Godot (1953)	Samuel Beckett	63%
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)	Thomas Hardy	62%
Utopia (1516)	Thomas More	60%
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1802)	William Wordsworth	58%
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)	Alfred Tennyson	57%
Don Juan (1819)	Lord Byron	57%
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)	John Keats	56%
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	56%
The Wind in the Willows (1908)	Kenneth Grahame	55%
A Clockwork Orange (1962)	Anthony Burgess	51%
Black Beauty (1877)	Anna Sewell	50%
The Tyger (1794)	William Blake	49%
Peter and Wendy (1904)	James Matthew Barrie	48%
The Secret Garden (1911)	Frances Hodgson Burnett	47%
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)	John Bunyan	45%
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)	Erich Maria Remarque	37%
H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)	Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert	36%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	Arthur C. Clarke	35%
Ash-Wednesday (1927)	T. S. Eliot	32%
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)	Tom Stoppard	30%
Blithe Spirit (1941)	Noël Coward	29%
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)	Mark Haddon	27%
A Bear Called Paddington (1958)	Michael Bond	27%
Mary Poppins (1934)	P. L. Travers	27%
The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926)	D. H. Lawrence	26%
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)	Thomas Gray	26%
Is There for Honest Poverty (1795)	Robert Burns	24%
Two Treatises of Government (1689)	John Locke	21%
The Once and Future King (1958)	T. H. White	18%
Men and Women (1855)	Robert Browning	16%
Essay on Criticism (1711)	Alexander Pope	12%
She Stoops to Conquer (1773)	Oliver Goldsmith	12%
Revelations of Divine Love (1395)	Julian of Norwich	8%
Proslogion (1078)	Anselm of Canterbury	7%
Wind and Flame (1967)	Donald Gee	5%
The Scots Confession (1560)	John Knox	4%
The Temple (1633)	George Herbert	3%
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1777)	John Wesley	3%
The Enchanted April (1922)	Elizabeth von Arnim	2%
The String of Pearls (1847)	James Malcolm Rymer	1%
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty (1831)	John Barrow	1%