Memorize these and you could recognize 22.1% of all Fictional Characters clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sherlock Holmes | 7 | "The Revenge of the Hound" was published in 1987 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this hero |
| 2 | Huckleberry Finn | 6 | Mark Twain based this title character on his pal Tom Blankenship, son of the town drunkard |
| 3 | Anna Karenina | 6 | Believing Alexei Vronsky has tired of her, she throws herself under a train |
| 4 | Jay Gatsby | 5 | The only people who attended his funeral were his father & Nick Carraway |
| 5 | the Great Gatsby | 4 | Born James Gatz, he was at one time engaged to Dasy Buchanan |
| 6 | Jane Eyre | 4 | Her wedding day was ruined when she found out her groom, Mr Rochester, already had a wife |
| 7 | Hercule Poirot | 4 | Agatha Christie wrote, "I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound" |
| 8 | Gulliver | 4 | When he lived in Lilliput, the natives gave him meat & drink enough for 1,728 of their own people |
| 9 | Don Quixote | 4 | His adventures take him to the plains of Montiel, cave of Montesinos, & village of El Toboso |
| 10 | The Red Badge of Courage | 3 | Henry Fleming is a Union soldier who must come to terms with his fear of death in this Civil War novel |
| 11 | The Prince and the Pauper | 3 | Title of this Mark Twain novel refers to the future King Edward VI & Tom Canty |
| 12 | Tarzan | 3 | In ape language, his name means "white skin" |
| 13 | Scarlett O'Hara | 3 | Mother of Bonnie Blue, she ran a sawmill after the Civil War |
| 14 | Robinson Crusoe | 3 | He had worked as a sugar planter in Brazil before being shipwrecked |
| 15 | Robin Hood | 3 | Maid Marian's main man |
| 16 | Phileas Fogg | 3 | He starts from London's Reform Club & returns there less than 3 months later |
| 17 | Perry Mason | 3 | This TV lawyer lost a case only once--when his client was covering for someone else |
| 18 | Mr. Chips | 3 | Muriel Spark wrote of "Miss Jean Brodie", & James Hilton wrote of this schoolmaster |
| 19 | Moll Flanders | 3 | As Daniel Defoe put it, she was a whore, a thief & a felon, but turned honest & died a penitent |
| 20 | Lolita | 3 | In Vladimir Nabokov's novel, 12-year-old Dolores Haze is this title character |
| 21 | Esmeralda | 3 | Beautiful gypsy who dances with a tambourine & goat in front of a church & hunchback |
| 22 | Charlie Chan | 3 | This Chinese detective made his 1st appearance in 1925 in "The House Without a Key" |
| 23 | Becky Thatcher | 3 | Mark Twain based her on Laura Hawkins, who lived across the street from him in Hannibal |
| 24 | Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) | 3 | In a Hugo novel Parisians choose this character to be the King of Fools in the Epiphany celebration |
| 25 | Professor Moriarty | 3 | Sherlock Holmes described this foe as the "Napoleon of Crime" |
| 26 | Miss Marple | 3 | In 1976, the same year her creator died, she made her final appearance, in "Sleeping Murder" |
| 27 | Heathcliff | 3 | After Catherine Earnshaw marries Edgar Linton, he marries Edgar's sister Isabella |
| 28 | Bridget Jones | 3 | With help from Helen Fielding, this 30-something singleton & diarist also has a published "Guide to Life" |
| 29 | Willie Stark | 2 | It's said that this governor in "All the King's Men" was based on Huey Long |
| 30 | Walter Mitty | 2 | Danny Kaye played this Thurber character in a 1947 film |
| 31 | the Three Musketeers | 2 | The vicious Mordaunt beheads King Charles I in "Twenty Years After", Dumas' sequel to this |
| 32 | The Sun Also Rises | 2 | Jake Barnes is the hero in love with Lady Brett Ashley in thus Hemingway tale |
| 33 | The Color Purple | 2 | At the end of this Alice Walker novel, Celie is reunited with her children & her sister Nettie |
| 34 | The Artful Dodger | 2 | This juvenile pickpocket is "as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six" |
| 35 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 2 | Heroine of the Thomas Hardy novel that's subtitled "A Pure Woman" |
| 36 | Sophie's Choice | 2 | Stingo is the narrator of this William Styron novel about a Polish survivor of Auschwitz |
| 37 | Sir Walter Scott | 2 | Guy Mannering, one of this author's title characters, is a British officer who dabbles in astrology |
| 38 | Sinbad | 2 | During his 7 voyages, he was sold into slavery, met the cyclops, & got stuck on 2 desert islands |
| 39 | Simon Legree | 2 | The villain of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" isn't a southerner, he's from Vermont |
| 40 | Scheherazade | 2 | Poe wrote "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of" this "Arabian Nights" character |
| 41 | Rooster Cogburn | 2 | He's the aging one-eyed marshal in the novel & movie "True Grit" |
| 42 | Richard the Lionhearted | 2 | In "Ivanhoe" the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise |
| 43 | Rebecca | 2 | She was the first Mrs. De Winter |
| 44 | Raskolnikov | 2 | The principal character of "Crime and Punishment", his first name is Rodion |
| 45 | Pippi Longstocking | 2 | She's the red-headed heroine of several books by Astrid Lindgren |
| 46 | Pip | 2 | For Philip Pirrip, the hero of "Great Expectations", this nickname was a natural |
| 47 | Peter Pan | 2 | He's "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" |
| 48 | Orlando | 2 | This protagonist of a Virginia Woolf novel changes from man to woman through 4 centuries |
| 49 | Oedipus | 2 | Jocasta's 2nd husband, he's one of Sophocles' most "Complex" characters |
| 50 | Odysseus | 2 | He left his son Telemachus under the care of his trusted friend Mentor |