Question for:
What author is often credited the following words: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster" though he may have "borrowed" those words from Thomas Fuller, who wrote similar ones forty years prior. The quote came from collected works called Polite Conversation published in 1738, seven years before his death in Dublin, Ireland.
Clues
Possible QScores
100
66.56
21.28
18.3
Answer Breakdown
| Clues Used | |||||
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | |
| Submissions | 67 | 102 | 133 | 3 | 305 |
| % of Total | 21.97% | 33.44% | 43.61% | 0.98% | |
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | |
| Correct | 61 | 102 | 132 | 3 | 298 |
| % of Correct | 20.47% | 34.23% | 44.3% | 1.01% | |
| % of Answers | 20% | 33.44% | 43.28% | 0.98% | |
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | |
| Incorrect | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| % of Incorrect | 85.71% | 0% | 14.29% | 0% | |
| % of Answers | 1.97% | 0% | 0.33% | 0% | |
97.7%
2.3%
78.03%
Most Common Incorrect Answer
| Answer | Count |
|---|---|
| “franklin” | 1 |