Memorize these and recognize 15.5% of all Fictional Characters clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sherlock Holmes | 14 | This detective was partly based on Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell |
| 2 | Don Quixote | 8 | He is confidently incorrect as he tells Sancho Panza that the cloud of dust he sees comes from an army; it's sheep |
| 3 | Hercule Poirot | 7 | When people ask if he's French, he's always quick to tell them no, he's Belgian |
| 4 | The Prince and the Pauper | 6 | In this Twain tale, Tom Canty is a dead ringer for the future king of England |
| 5 | Lolita | 6 | Playwright Clare Quilty is Humbert's rival for the love of this girl |
| 6 | Huckleberry Finn | 6 | This Twain hero's feminine disguise fails after he can't remember if his name is Mary or Sarah |
| 7 | Anna Karenina | 6 | Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she's a Tolstoy title lady |
| 8 | Professor Moriarty | 6 | This mathematician gone bad is Sherlock Holmes' archenemy |
| 9 | the Great Gatsby | 5 | George Wilson kills this Fitzgerald title character after Daisy runs over Wilson's wife |
| 10 | Scarlett O'Hara | 5 | Margaret Mitchell wrote that she "had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy" |
| 11 | Robinson Crusoe | 5 | Chile's Juan Fernandez islands include a pair named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional character |
| 12 | Jane Eyre | 5 | Bertha Mason, Grace Poole, Mr. Rochester |
| 13 | Gulliver | 5 | Lemuel is the first name of this doctor & adventurer who set off on his travels in 1699 |
| 14 | Uncle Fester | 4 | It was Jackie Coogan's character on "The Addams Family" |
| 15 | the Count of Monte Cristo | 4 | After giving up his wealth, this Dumas character sails away with Haydee, never to be seen again |
| 16 | the Artful Dodger | 4 | Jack Dawkins is the real name of this nimble pickpocket who befriends Oliver Twist |
| 17 | Tarzan | 4 | In a story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this title character adopts an orphaned cub that becomes "The Golden Lion" |
| 18 | Phileas Fogg | 4 | On Oct. 2, 1872 he & his servant leave London in an attempt to go around the world in 80 days |
| 19 | Peter Pan | 4 | This name of a boy who can fly can be applied to any emotionally undeveloped man |
| 20 | Perry Mason | 4 | This hard-hitting defense lawyer appears in about 80 of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels |
| 21 | Esmeralda | 4 | With a tambourine & a goat, this gypsy girl dances before Notre Dame |
| 22 | David Copperfield | 4 | Charles Dickens considered calling this title character Spankle or Copperboy |
| 23 | Becky Thatcher | 4 | Tom Sawyer forgets Amy Lawrence when he sees this girl "with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails" |
| 24 | Dr. Watson | 4 | This inhabitant of 221B Baker Street had been a surgeon in the British army |
| 25 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | 4 | Father Latour is the archbishop in the title of this Willa Cather work |
| 26 | Peter Rabbit | 4 | In a kids' book, we meet this title character along with his siblings Flopsy, Mopsy & Cotton-tail |
| 27 | Quasimodo | 4 | At the end of an 1831 novel, his skeleton is found in a cellar with a curved spine & soon crumbles into dust |
| 28 | Walter Mitty | 3 | This Thurber character from a 1939 short story now refers to anyone with elaborate daydreams |
| 29 | Tom Jones | 3 | This foundling who's raised by Mr. Allworthy later discovers that Allworthy is his uncle |
| 30 | The Red Badge of Courage | 3 | As this Stephen Crane novel opens, Henry Fleming looks forward to proving himself in battle |
| 31 | the Maltese Falcon | 3 | The object of the quest of criminal mastermind Casper Gutman |
| 32 | Superman | 3 | Of course this hero returns from the dead in "Justice League"; he even has a race with the Flash at the end |
| 33 | Robin Hood | 3 | Among his followers are George-a-Greene & Allan-a-Dale |
| 34 | Raskolnikov | 3 | Rodion Romanovich are the first & middle names of this abundantly alliterative Dostoyevsky character |
| 35 | Oedipus | 3 | Jocasta's son, he's one of Sophocles' most "Complex" characters |
| 36 | Odysseus | 3 | In a 24-book work Homer chronicled his journey home |
| 37 | Mr. Chips | 3 | This title James Hilton character taught classics at Brookfield School |
| 38 | Moll Flanders | 3 | This title Defoe heroine has many misfortunes, including marrying her own brother by mistake |
| 39 | Long John Silver | 3 | Squire Trelawney hired him to be the cook on the Hispaniola |
| 40 | Jay Gatsby | 3 | In Long Island's West Egg the great neighbor of Nick Carraway |
| 41 | Heathcliff | 3 | Not actually much development for this man who plots revenge against the Earnshaws, can't get past Cathy's death & also dies |
| 42 | Heart of Darkness | 3 | Joseph Conrad based Mr. Kurtz in this novel on Georges-Antoine Klein. a man he met in Africa |
| 43 | Harvey | 3 | Elwood P. Dowd's bosom bunny |
| 44 | Gargantua | 3 | Seen here is a 19th century illustration of this Rabelais character |
| 45 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 3 | Roxane married Christian de Neuvillette not knowing his love letters were written by this poet & soldier |
| 46 | Charlie Chan | 3 | A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character "is Dead" |
| 47 | Bridget Jones | 3 | She's the funny, slightly incompetent diarist in books by Helen Fielding |
| 48 | Alice | 3 | Lewis Carroll based this title girl on a daughter of the dean of Oxford's Christ Church College |
| 49 | Ali Baba | 3 | Morgiana, this man's female slave, killed the 40 thieves by pouring boiling oil on them |
| 50 | a Country | 3 | In 1972 disfigured Justin McLeod was "The Man Without a Face"; in 1863 exiled Philip Nolan was "The Man Without" this |
These appear 8+ times. Memorize these first.
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