| 100% | KESEY | 5 | Ken who wrote "Sometimes a Great Notion" |
| 65% | KESEY | 5 | "Sometimes a Great Notion" novelist Ken |
| 53% | KESEY | 5 | "Sometimes a Great Notion" author |
| 53% | KENKESEY | 8 | "Sometimes a Great Notion" writer |
| 52% | DANTE | 5 | Who wrote "A great flame follows a little spark" |
| 52% | KESEY | 5 | "Sometimes a Great Notion" novelist, 1964 |
| 46% | NIN | 3 | Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living" |
| 46% | HBO | 3 | Cable channel whose first broadcast, in 1972, was the movie "Sometimes a Great Notion" |
| 45% | KESEY | 5 | Ken who wrote ''. . . Cuckoo's Nest'' |
| 44% | FOLLETT | 7 | Ken who wrote The Pillars of the Earth |
| 43% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great Arthur who wrote a history of African-American athletes |
| 43% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 42% | KESEY | 5 | Ken who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| 42% | SCOOBYDOO | 9 | A Great Dane who solves mysteries |
| 41% | SARTRE | 6 | Who wrote "Existentialism Is a Humanism," 1945 |
| 41% | ANNE | 4 | Frank who wrote a diary |
| 41% | AUTHOR | 6 | Person who writes a book |
| 40% | SHAW | 4 | Who wrote "All great truths begin as blasphemies" |
| 40% | SECRETCODE | 10 | Who wrote a 2003 best seller about a ___? |
| 40% | EBERT | 5 | Reviewer who wrote The Great Movies |
| 40% | BROKAW | 6 | Tom who wrote "The Greatest Generation" |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Who wrote the line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 39% | WEBER | 5 | Max who wrote "Politics as a Vocation" |
| 39% | MILLER | 6 | Arthur who wrote "Death of a Salesman" |
| 39% | GOGOL | 5 | Nikolai who wrote "Diary of a Madman" |
| 39% | LEE | 3 | Harper who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| 39% | LEE | 3 | Harper who wrote "Go Set a Watchman" |
| 39% | HITE | 4 | Shere who wrote a noted 1976 report |
| 39% | ANKA | 4 | Paul who wrote "She's a Lady" |
| 39% | LEE | 3 | Harper who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird |