Memorize these and recognize 11.4% of all Fiction clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agatha Christie | 8 | It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia" |
| 2 | Tarzan | 6 | This hero "of the Apes" later hung out with ant men, lion men & leopard men |
| 3 | Stephen King | 5 | Part I of his book "Christine" is called "Dennis - Teenage Car Songs" |
| 4 | Sherlock Holmes | 5 | ( Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) With my co-author, Anna Waterhouse, I've written three mystery novels featuring a very smart man named Mycro... |
| 5 | Philip Marlowe | 5 | This detective debuted in the story "Killer in the Rain", from which material was later used in "The Big Sleep" |
| 6 | Nero Wolfe | 5 | Rex Stout's stout investigator |
| 7 | Hercule Poirot | 5 | This dandified detective was once "one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police" |
| 8 | On the Road | 5 | John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier |
| 9 | Sister Carrie | 5 | Theodore Dreiser's own sister Emma had a fling with a married man, helping inspire this title woman |
| 10 | Utopia | 4 | Now a term for any dreamy society, this Thomas More land from a 1516 work was Communist & populated by pagans |
| 11 | The Maltese Falcon | 4 | "Grand Master Villiers de l'Isle d'Adam had" this made "by Turkish slaves in the castle of St. Angelo" |
| 12 | The Invisible Man | 4 | Post-mortem the title character of this H.G. Wells novel can be seen, hands & feet first |
| 13 | Lilliput | 4 | In "Gulliver's Travels", political parties in this tiny land are known by the height of their heels |
| 14 | Brave New World | 4 | This Aldous Huxley novel begins with a tour of the Fertilizing Room |
| 15 | The Simpsons | 3 | Duff Beer is regularly served by Moe Szyslak on this show |
| 16 | The Shining | 3 | The Overlook Hotel in Colorado is the sinister setting for this Stephen King novel |
| 17 | The Canterbury Tales | 3 | This classic centers on a story-telling contest among pilgrims vying for a free meal at Tabard Inn |
| 18 | Tess | 3 | Though she has an illegitimate child & kills a man, the hearty tale about her is subtitled A Pure Woman |
| 19 | Scarlett O'Hara | 3 | Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Kennedy, & Mrs. Butler, but never Mrs. Wilkes |
| 20 | Rosemary's Baby | 3 | In 1997 Ira Levin delivered "Son of Rosemary", the sequel to this novel |
| 21 | Rabbit at Rest | 3 | In 1991 John Updike won his second Pulitzer for this aptly titled final novel about Harry Angstrom |
| 22 | Panem | 3 | "The Hunger Games" says this country "rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America" |
| 23 | Narnia | 3 | Aslan created this well-chronicled land by singing |
| 24 | Nancy Drew | 3 | In her first book this teen detective solves "The Secret of the Old Clock"; then in No. 2, she explores "The Hidden Staircase" |
| 25 | Moll Flanders | 3 | This Defoe heroine calls herself "as impudent a thief... as" the infamous "Moll Cut-Purse" |
| 26 | Mike Hammer | 3 | This detective's secretary, Velda, is as stunning as his female clients |
| 27 | Injun Joe | 3 | Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn watched him kill the town doctor & place the knife in Muff Potter's hand |
| 28 | Henry James | 3 | This American gained fame in 1878 with his novella "Daisy Miller" |
| 29 | George R.R. Martin | 3 | This author said, "I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people"; he was far from finished with the shocking |
| 30 | Father Brown | 3 | G.K. Chesterton based this detective on his friend John O'Connor, who was a priest |
| 31 | Dracula | 3 | In chap. 1 of this novel, Jonathan Harker spends the night at the Hotel Royale in Klausenburgh but doesn't sleep well |
| 32 | Dorian Gray | 3 | Oscar Wilde's "picture perfect" protagonist |
| 33 | Daisy Miller | 3 | Fanning herself is just one of the ways this Henry James heroine flirts with Mr. Winterbourne |
| 34 | China | 3 | Homeland of inscrutable detective Judge Dee |
| 35 | Charlie Chan | 3 | "The House Without a Key" was the first case solved by this Chinese detective |
| 36 | Catch-22 | 3 | The island of Pianosa is the setting of this classic by Joseph Heller |
| 37 | Atlas Shrugged | 3 | Ayn Rand's original title for this 1957 novel was "The Strike" |
| 38 | Maine | 3 | In Elmore Leonard's historical novel "Cuba Libre", Pvt. Virgil Webster "felt himself lifted from the deck" of this ship |
| 39 | bones | 3 | Murdered by her neighbor, Susie Salmon tells her story from heaven in this Alice Sebold bestseller |
| 40 | (John) Irving | 3 | Rip's tale appears in "The Sketch Book" written by this man |
| 41 | Willy Wonka | 2 | He gave Charlie a tour of his chocolate factory |
| 42 | White Fang | 2 | Beauty Smith buys this Jack London wolf/dog to use in dogfights |
| 43 | Wendy | 2 | Sister of John & Michael Darling, Peter Pan thought she was darling, too |
| 44 | Walter Mosley | 2 | In his novel "Devil in a Blue Dress", he introduced Easy Rawlins, an African-American detective in 1940s Los Angeles |
| 45 | Twilight | 2 | This fictional saga is primarily set in the real town of Forks, Washington |
| 46 | Travis McGee | 2 | Captain of the houseboat "Busted Flush" |
| 47 | Tom Sawyer | 2 | In his 2nd sequel, Mark Twain wrote about him as a detective |
| 48 | Tolkien | 2 | Cram is a biscuit-like food made by the men of Esgaroth in this author's fantasy world |
| 49 | Tinker Bell | 2 | She tricked the boys in Never Land into shooting down Wendy |
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