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#	Answer	Category	TUH	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev Celerity	Average Correct Score
1	Blanche DuBois	Drama	20	11	55.0%	.443	.350	15.18
2	Mark Twain	Nonfiction	20	20	100.0%	.277	.201	13.10
3	Abraham Lincoln	Poetry	20	19	95.0%	.369	.279	14.37
4	Young Goodman Brown	Short Stories	20	5	25.0%	.384	.288	14.60
5	A Raisin in the Sun	Drama	20	16	80.0%	.242	.209	12.75
6	Cormac McCarthy	Novels	20	14	70.0%	.423	.330	15.00
7	(Francis) Bret Harte	Short Stories	20	10	50.0%	.206	.211	12.20
8	Truman (Garcia) Capote	Nonfiction	20	16	80.0%	.323	.262	13.75
9	The Sun Also Rises	Novels	20	11	55.0%	.248	.210	12.73
10	O. Henry	Short Stories	19	16	84.2%	.390	.179	14.44
11	Judy Blume	-	19	8	42.1%	.081	.087	10.75
12	New Orleans	Novels	19	16	84.2%	.234	.316	12.81
13	The Lottery	Short Stories	19	16	84.2%	.367	.237	14.31
14	J. D. Salinger	Short Stories	19	15	78.9%	.304	.233	13.53
15	Octavia (Estelle) Butler	Genre	19	4	21.1%	.159	.278	12.00
16	Sylvia Plath	Poetry	19	16	84.2%	.269	.257	13.12
17	Amy Tan	Novels	19	14	73.7%	.271	.226	13.00
18	Danielle Steel	Genre	19	1	5.3%	.000	.043	10.00
19	Letter from Birmingham Jail	Nonfiction	19	10	52.6%	.178	.143	11.80
20	The Sound and the Fury	Novels	19	11	57.9%	.326	.235	13.91
21	Usher	Short Stories	18	16	88.9%	.209	.196	12.31
22	(the) Stage Manager	Drama	18	8	44.4%	.299	.178	13.38
23	Carl (August) Sandburg	Poetry	18	13	72.2%	.438	.201	15.15
24	houses	Novels	18	16	88.9%	.148	.184	11.62
25	mountains	-	18	17	94.4%	.186	.237	12.00
26	Edward Albee	Drama	18	10	55.6%	.176	.239	11.70
27	Williams	Poetry	18	10	55.6%	.269	.190	13.20
28	Owl Creek Bridge	Short Stories	18	12	66.7%	.286	.185	13.17
29	August Wilson	Drama	18	14	77.8%	.338	.267	14.07
30	Rabbit Angstrom	Novels	18	10	55.6%	.160	.303	11.80
31	Hatchet	-	18	14	77.8%	.143	.204	11.50
32	Stephen (Edwin) King	Genre	18	16	88.9%	.167	.252	11.88
33	Henry David Thoreau	Nonfiction	18	17	94.4%	.413	.176	14.94
34	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Novels	18	14	77.8%	.315	.184	13.71
35	mouse	-	18	13	72.2%	.246	.161	12.69
36	Dune	Genre	18	14	77.8%	.129	.188	11.43
37	Ralph (Waldo) Ellison	Novels	18	14	77.8%	.262	.297	13.07
38	Helen (Adams) Keller	Drama	18	17	94.4%	.146	.132	11.41
39	horses	-	18	9	50.0%	.133	.219	11.44
40	John	Novels	18	11	61.1%	.248	.258	12.91
41	(John) Michael Crichton	Genre	18	9	50.0%	.093	.091	10.89
42	Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson	Poetry	18	16	88.9%	.222	.235	12.38
43	The Feminine Mystique	Nonfiction	18	7	38.9%	.220	.166	12.29
44	Toni Morrison	Novels	18	13	72.2%	.306	.281	13.46
45	Maya Angelou	Poetry	18	14	77.8%	.346	.224	13.93
46	Florida	-	18	13	72.2%	.206	.235	12.31
47	Carson McCullers	Novels	18	12	66.7%	.100	.145	11.08
48	The New Colossus	Poetry	18	9	50.0%	.226	.122	12.44
49	Herman Melville	-	18	16	88.9%	.342	.179	14.00
50	Edith Wharton	Novels	18	14	77.8%	.202	.287	12.21

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.