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#	Answer	Category	TUH	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev Celerity	Average Correct Score
1	Blanche DuBois	Drama	61	48	78.7%	.475	.328	15.65
2	Mark Twain	Nonfiction	61	59	96.7%	.370	.182	14.25
3	Abraham Lincoln	Poetry	61	56	91.8%	.452	.245	15.39
4	Young Goodman Brown	Short Stories	61	46	75.4%	.481	.287	15.72
5	A Raisin in the Sun	Drama	61	53	86.9%	.370	.176	14.30
6	Cormac McCarthy	Novels	61	50	82.0%	.440	.273	15.20
7	(Francis) Bret Harte	Short Stories	61	35	57.4%	.334	.247	13.89
8	Truman (Garcia) Capote	Nonfiction	61	57	93.4%	.335	.166	13.77
9	The Sun Also Rises	Novels	61	36	59.0%	.317	.250	13.72
10	O. Henry	Short Stories	61	58	95.1%	.376	.161	14.43
11	Judy Blume	-	61	41	67.2%	.056	.096	10.46
12	New Orleans	Novels	61	56	91.8%	.356	.307	14.32
13	The Lottery	Short Stories	61	55	90.2%	.442	.223	15.29
14	J. D. Salinger	Short Stories	61	55	90.2%	.322	.225	13.76
15	Octavia (Estelle) Butler	Genre	61	17	27.9%	.396	.302	14.82
16	Sylvia Plath	Poetry	61	57	93.4%	.304	.231	13.49
17	Amy Tan	Novels	61	49	80.3%	.277	.198	13.12
18	Danielle Steel	Genre	61	11	18.0%	.024	.045	10.27
19	Letter from Birmingham Jail	Nonfiction	61	42	68.9%	.251	.191	12.74
20	The Sound and the Fury	Novels	61	47	77.0%	.314	.187	13.60
21	Usher	Short Stories	61	54	88.5%	.223	.182	12.30
22	(the) Stage Manager	Drama	61	39	63.9%	.276	.189	13.18
23	Carl (August) Sandburg	Poetry	61	40	65.6%	.389	.177	14.65
24	houses	Novels	61	57	93.4%	.285	.210	13.30
25	mountains	-	61	58	95.1%	.198	.252	12.26
26	Edward Albee	Drama	61	50	82.0%	.327	.217	13.70
27	Williams	Poetry	61	47	77.0%	.347	.208	14.19
28	Owl Creek Bridge	Short Stories	61	42	68.9%	.306	.195	13.48
29	August Wilson	Drama	61	53	86.9%	.425	.236	15.02
30	Rabbit Angstrom	Novels	61	46	75.4%	.249	.247	12.80
31	Hatchet	-	61	54	88.5%	.119	.142	11.17
32	Stephen (Edwin) King	Genre	61	54	88.5%	.275	.290	13.26
33	Henry David Thoreau	Nonfiction	61	51	83.6%	.467	.173	15.61
34	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Novels	61	54	88.5%	.322	.143	13.69
35	mouse	-	61	47	77.0%	.320	.180	13.53
36	Dune	Genre	61	52	85.2%	.221	.179	12.46
37	Ralph (Waldo) Ellison	Novels	61	49	80.3%	.239	.214	12.69
38	Helen (Adams) Keller	Drama	61	57	93.4%	.199	.124	12.12
39	horses	-	61	53	86.9%	.341	.296	14.02
40	John	Novels	61	40	65.6%	.312	.297	13.70
41	(John) Michael Crichton	Genre	61	45	73.8%	.161	.154	11.64
42	Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson	Poetry	61	57	93.4%	.284	.191	13.14
43	The Feminine Mystique	Nonfiction	61	40	65.6%	.306	.228	13.55
44	Toni Morrison	Novels	61	57	93.4%	.415	.229	14.95
45	Maya Angelou	Poetry	61	57	93.4%	.390	.217	14.56
46	Florida	-	61	54	88.5%	.391	.243	14.67
47	Carson McCullers	Novels	61	43	70.5%	.176	.208	11.95
48	The New Colossus	Poetry	61	33	54.1%	.243	.192	12.70
49	Herman Melville	-	61	54	88.5%	.336	.169	13.87
50	Edith Wharton	Novels	61	44	72.1%	.413	.245	14.86

Celerity is the fraction of the question that had not been read at the time of a buzz (for which a correct answer was provided). 1.000 is an immediate buzz, .500 is an answer given halfway through the question in terms of time on the sound recording, and .000 is an answer given at the very end.