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#	Answer	Category	TUH	# Correct	% Correct	Average Correct Celerity	Std. Dev Celerity	Average Correct Score
1	Blanche DuBois	Drama	38	28	73.7%	.220	.180	12.43
2	Mark Twain	Nonfiction	38	38	100.0%	.378	.206	14.39
3	Abraham Lincoln	Poetry	38	35	92.1%	.186	.207	12.06
4	Young Goodman Brown	Short Stories	38	9	23.7%	.400	.234	14.56
5	A Raisin in the Sun	Drama	38	33	86.8%	.212	.184	12.39
6	Cormac McCarthy	Novels	38	32	84.2%	.335	.232	14.00
7	(Francis) Bret Harte	Short Stories	38	10	26.3%	.201	.160	12.40
8	Truman (Garcia) Capote	Nonfiction	38	35	92.1%	.284	.131	13.14
9	The Sun Also Rises	Novels	38	25	65.8%	.281	.219	13.24
10	O. Henry	Short Stories	38	30	78.9%	.281	.159	13.23
11	Judy Blume	-	38	24	63.2%	.070	.149	10.75
12	New Orleans	Novels	38	36	94.7%	.222	.275	12.64
13	The Lottery	Short Stories	38	29	76.3%	.355	.202	14.10
14	J. D. Salinger	Short Stories	38	17	44.7%	.228	.189	12.53
15	Octavia (Estelle) Butler	Genre	38	8	21.1%	.153	.295	11.75
16	Sylvia Plath	Poetry	37	34	91.9%	.088	.132	10.82
17	Amy Tan	Novels	37	27	73.0%	.225	.196	12.48
18	Danielle Steel	Genre	37	17	45.9%	.162	.246	11.82
19	Letter from Birmingham Jail	Nonfiction	37	25	67.6%	.116	.155	11.24
20	The Sound and the Fury	Novels	37	26	70.3%	.220	.214	12.54
21	Usher	Short Stories	37	30	81.1%	.102	.122	11.03
22	(the) Stage Manager	Drama	37	14	37.8%	.221	.159	12.50
23	Carl (August) Sandburg	Poetry	37	22	59.5%	.347	.202	14.05
24	houses	Novels	37	28	75.7%	.183	.207	12.11
25	mountains	-	37	34	91.9%	.202	.249	12.29
26	Edward Albee	Drama	37	29	78.4%	.151	.151	11.59
27	Williams	Poetry	37	17	45.9%	.166	.130	11.82
28	Owl Creek Bridge	Short Stories	37	22	59.5%	.157	.152	11.55
29	August Wilson	Drama	37	27	73.0%	.333	.221	13.81
30	Rabbit Angstrom	Novels	37	26	70.3%	.152	.202	11.62
31	Hatchet	-	37	29	78.4%	.064	.104	10.48
32	Stephen (Edwin) King	Genre	37	34	91.9%	.390	.274	14.59
33	Henry David Thoreau	Nonfiction	37	33	89.2%	.392	.205	14.61
34	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Novels	37	34	91.9%	.279	.114	13.15
35	mouse	-	37	31	83.8%	.305	.152	13.39
36	Dune	Genre	37	35	94.6%	.300	.190	13.49
37	Ralph (Waldo) Ellison	Novels	37	29	78.4%	.046	.088	10.31
38	Helen (Adams) Keller	Drama	37	33	89.2%	.218	.102	12.36
39	horses	-	37	32	86.5%	.439	.251	15.22
40	John	Novels	37	23	62.2%	.145	.207	11.65
41	(John) Michael Crichton	Genre	37	34	91.9%	.209	.179	12.24
42	Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson	Poetry	37	33	89.2%	.155	.154	11.61
43	The Feminine Mystique	Nonfiction	37	22	59.5%	.192	.167	12.05
44	Toni Morrison	Novels	37	32	86.5%	.169	.225	11.88
45	Maya Angelou	Poetry	37	33	89.2%	.335	.198	13.82
46	Florida	-	37	32	86.5%	.241	.214	12.72
47	Carson McCullers	Novels	37	21	56.8%	.064	.082	10.52
48	The New Colossus	Poetry	37	18	48.6%	.281	.199	13.22
49	Herman Melville	-	37	34	91.9%	.184	.174	11.94
50	Edith Wharton	Novels	37	29	78.4%	.217	.218	12.52

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.