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#	Answer	Category	TUH	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev Celerity	Average Correct Score
1	Blanche DuBois	Drama	184	146	79.3%	.304	.226	13.47
2	Mark Twain	Nonfiction	184	183	99.5%	.427	.181	15.05
3	Abraham Lincoln	Poetry	184	170	92.4%	.321	.276	13.72
4	Young Goodman Brown	Short Stories	184	83	45.1%	.368	.231	14.34
5	A Raisin in the Sun	Drama	184	167	90.8%	.221	.191	12.50
6	Cormac McCarthy	Novels	184	146	79.3%	.405	.246	14.76
7	(Francis) Bret Harte	Short Stories	184	107	58.2%	.244	.232	12.78
8	Truman (Garcia) Capote	Nonfiction	184	175	95.1%	.330	.157	13.79
9	The Sun Also Rises	Novels	184	122	66.3%	.233	.213	12.61
10	O. Henry	Short Stories	184	171	92.9%	.349	.211	14.04
11	Judy Blume	-	184	129	70.1%	.135	.183	11.48
12	New Orleans	Novels	184	179	97.3%	.351	.292	14.25
13	The Lottery	Short Stories	184	166	90.2%	.347	.210	14.10
14	J. D. Salinger	Short Stories	184	136	73.9%	.263	.215	12.97
15	Octavia (Estelle) Butler	Genre	184	58	31.5%	.316	.308	13.72
16	Sylvia Plath	Poetry	184	174	94.6%	.170	.187	11.84
17	Amy Tan	Novels	184	164	89.1%	.291	.199	13.34
18	Danielle Steel	Genre	184	101	54.9%	.138	.174	11.53
19	Letter from Birmingham Jail	Nonfiction	184	137	74.5%	.191	.200	12.12
20	The Sound and the Fury	Novels	184	132	71.7%	.222	.198	12.49
21	Usher	Short Stories	184	167	90.8%	.192	.166	12.06
22	(the) Stage Manager	Drama	184	103	56.0%	.221	.160	12.37
23	Carl (August) Sandburg	Poetry	184	135	73.4%	.367	.208	14.32
24	houses	Novels	184	151	82.1%	.196	.219	12.19
25	mountains	-	184	179	97.3%	.217	.239	12.42
26	Edward Albee	Drama	184	156	84.8%	.191	.163	12.00
27	Williams	Poetry	184	112	60.9%	.242	.168	12.73
28	Owl Creek Bridge	Short Stories	184	144	78.3%	.191	.154	12.03
29	August Wilson	Drama	184	157	85.3%	.334	.232	13.94
30	Rabbit Angstrom	Novels	184	156	84.8%	.177	.226	11.97
31	Hatchet	-	184	157	85.3%	.082	.115	10.81
32	Stephen (Edwin) King	Genre	184	170	92.4%	.405	.281	14.85
33	Henry David Thoreau	Nonfiction	184	158	85.9%	.419	.189	14.97
34	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Novels	184	167	90.8%	.293	.119	13.32
35	mouse	-	184	144	78.3%	.333	.198	13.83
36	Dune	Genre	184	174	94.6%	.356	.246	14.17
37	Ralph (Waldo) Ellison	Novels	184	160	87.0%	.177	.226	11.97
38	Helen (Adams) Keller	Drama	184	179	97.3%	.219	.122	12.36
39	horses	-	184	169	91.8%	.423	.235	15.01
40	John	Novels	184	126	68.5%	.287	.256	13.37
41	(John) Michael Crichton	Genre	184	158	85.9%	.215	.202	12.34
42	Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson	Poetry	184	174	94.6%	.228	.186	12.50
43	The Feminine Mystique	Nonfiction	184	137	74.5%	.233	.185	12.58
44	Toni Morrison	Novels	184	169	91.8%	.298	.228	13.46
45	Maya Angelou	Poetry	184	179	97.3%	.386	.182	14.54
46	Florida	-	184	175	95.1%	.333	.258	13.91
47	Carson McCullers	Novels	184	131	71.2%	.166	.211	11.78
48	The New Colossus	Poetry	184	106	57.6%	.328	.193	13.84
49	Herman Melville	-	184	172	93.5%	.295	.175	13.38
50	Edith Wharton	Novels	184	141	76.6%	.299	.231	13.45

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.