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#	Answer	Category	TUH	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev Celerity	Average Correct Score
1	Blanche DuBois	Drama	70	44	62.9%	.397	.320	14.64
2	Mark Twain	Nonfiction	70	67	95.7%	.352	.196	13.99
3	Abraham Lincoln	Poetry	70	64	91.4%	.421	.250	15.06
4	Young Goodman Brown	Short Stories	70	44	62.9%	.489	.292	15.89
5	A Raisin in the Sun	Drama	70	63	90.0%	.343	.227	13.97
6	Cormac McCarthy	Novels	70	50	71.4%	.379	.280	14.40
7	(Francis) Bret Harte	Short Stories	70	43	61.4%	.303	.244	13.47
8	Truman (Garcia) Capote	Nonfiction	70	62	88.6%	.416	.225	14.84
9	The Sun Also Rises	Novels	70	44	62.9%	.294	.228	13.34
10	O. Henry	Short Stories	70	67	95.7%	.397	.165	14.72
11	Judy Blume	-	70	52	74.3%	.173	.183	11.94
12	New Orleans	Novels	70	60	85.7%	.262	.289	13.17
13	The Lottery	Short Stories	70	62	88.6%	.391	.213	14.61
14	J. D. Salinger	Short Stories	70	58	82.9%	.326	.259	13.74
15	Octavia (Estelle) Butler	Genre	70	30	42.9%	.281	.252	13.30
16	Sylvia Plath	Poetry	70	61	87.1%	.263	.232	12.97
17	Amy Tan	Novels	70	56	80.0%	.326	.235	13.79
18	Danielle Steel	Genre	70	11	15.7%	.380	.220	14.64
19	Letter from Birmingham Jail	Nonfiction	70	46	65.7%	.164	.197	11.78
20	The Sound and the Fury	Novels	70	52	74.3%	.262	.206	13.02
21	Usher	Short Stories	70	67	95.7%	.176	.175	11.93
22	(the) Stage Manager	Drama	70	44	62.9%	.247	.163	12.75
23	Carl (August) Sandburg	Poetry	70	58	82.9%	.371	.222	14.40
24	houses	Novels	70	65	92.9%	.258	.233	13.00
25	mountains	-	70	60	85.7%	.182	.236	12.03
26	Edward Albee	Drama	70	54	77.1%	.327	.248	13.80
27	Williams	Poetry	70	54	77.1%	.281	.189	13.24
28	Owl Creek Bridge	Short Stories	70	58	82.9%	.246	.199	12.69
29	August Wilson	Drama	70	52	74.3%	.355	.284	14.25
30	Rabbit Angstrom	Novels	70	45	64.3%	.211	.215	12.33
31	Hatchet	-	70	58	82.9%	.132	.142	11.36
32	Stephen (Edwin) King	Genre	70	60	85.7%	.210	.290	12.45
33	Henry David Thoreau	Nonfiction	70	57	81.4%	.389	.170	14.58
34	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Novels	70	53	75.7%	.294	.201	13.30
35	mouse	-	70	56	80.0%	.320	.174	13.61
36	Dune	Genre	70	50	71.4%	.189	.205	12.16
37	Ralph (Waldo) Ellison	Novels	70	55	78.6%	.302	.266	13.56
38	Helen (Adams) Keller	Drama	70	63	90.0%	.220	.143	12.43
39	horses	-	70	52	74.3%	.170	.208	11.92
40	John	Novels	70	47	67.1%	.254	.234	13.02
41	(John) Michael Crichton	Genre	70	48	68.6%	.150	.182	11.65
42	Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson	Poetry	70	65	92.9%	.275	.192	13.09
43	The Feminine Mystique	Nonfiction	70	48	68.6%	.230	.211	12.60
44	Toni Morrison	Novels	70	62	88.6%	.424	.221	15.00
45	Maya Angelou	Poetry	70	65	92.9%	.394	.202	14.68
46	Florida	-	70	68	97.1%	.311	.249	13.69
47	Carson McCullers	Novels	70	46	65.7%	.200	.239	12.30
48	The New Colossus	Poetry	70	39	55.7%	.204	.180	12.28
49	Herman Melville	-	70	68	97.1%	.304	.169	13.50
50	Edith Wharton	Novels	70	57	81.4%	.318	.258	13.72

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.