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4/10 *NM* Stephen Send a noteboard - 11/01/2011 06:56:47 PM
1. Which novel by Jane Austen starts with this line: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"?

2. Name the author of the poem "Slough" with its notorious first line: "Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!"

3. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the first line of a sonnet by which writer?

4. Which novel by Daphne du Maurier begins with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"?

5. Which 1872 novel by Thomas Hardy used as its title the first line of a song in Shakespeare's "As You Like It".

6. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" is the first line of part of a poem called "Lucy". Who wrote it?

7. Which book by Kenneth Grahame begins: "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home"?

8. "I sing the body electric" is the first line of a poem by Walt Whitman. Can you name the US writer who used that line as the title of a 1969 collection of short stories?

9. Which novel by Leo Tolstoy begins: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"?

10. Who wrote the 1840 poem "Sordello" which begins: 'Who will, may hear Sordello's story told"?
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Are you ready for this? "First Lines" nossy - 11/01/2011 04:40:12 PM 623 Views
Answers nossy - 11/01/2011 04:43:24 PM 466 Views
5/10 *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2011 05:49:46 PM 165 Views
1/10 for me. So to answer your question, "no." *NM* Aemon - 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM 150 Views
That is one more then I got random thoughts - 11/01/2011 04:58:12 PM 353 Views
aw, at least you tried. nossy - 11/01/2011 05:02:16 PM 394 Views
What can I say I was an engineering major random thoughts - 11/01/2011 06:01:51 PM 410 Views
7/10 Michael - 11/01/2011 05:02:26 PM 410 Views
Everybody's a critic. nossy - 11/01/2011 05:07:58 PM 402 Views
I fear we are shaming our site; 5. Joel - 11/01/2011 05:29:04 PM 510 Views
4/10 *NM* Stephen - 11/01/2011 06:56:47 PM 157 Views
6/10 Rebekah - 11/01/2011 07:07:46 PM 351 Views
My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct. Tim - 11/01/2011 07:11:59 PM 376 Views
Re: My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct. globug0822 - 13/01/2011 12:10:21 AM 375 Views
I'm afraid I only got 1.5 out of ten right myself SilverWarder - 11/01/2011 08:04:48 PM 448 Views
Just 4. Clover - 11/01/2011 08:57:27 PM 405 Views
This lacks "Call Me Ishmael." Dannymac - 12/01/2011 06:12:56 AM 378 Views
That one is just too easy. *NM* jh - 12/01/2011 07:12:17 PM 175 Views
Many of them are easy if you know the book. Legolas - 13/01/2011 09:59:31 PM 341 Views
Possibly. jh - 14/01/2011 07:28:25 AM 358 Views
I was born ready snoopcester - 12/01/2011 09:54:21 AM 467 Views
I hate poetry: 3/10. *NM* ironclad - 12/01/2011 11:00:54 AM 174 Views
2/10. I rarely read poetry. To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie. Avendesora - 12/01/2011 04:51:57 PM 430 Views
Re: To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie. ironclad - 12/01/2011 08:03:57 PM 364 Views
2 answers and 2 guesses. ^_^ globug0822 - 13/01/2011 12:07:15 AM 371 Views
5, the easiest five I think (questions 1, 3, 4 by default, 7 by default and 9). Legolas - 13/01/2011 10:01:02 PM 353 Views
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