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Just 4. Clover Send a noteboard - 11/01/2011 08:57:27 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"?

Pride and Prejudice?

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?

Shakespeare.

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".

I've only read two Hardy books and they were both named after characters, so although am vaguely annoyed that I trod through hundreds of pages of his writing and still can't answer this question, that's the way it is.

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

Poe?

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

Ah. Hm. The Wind in the Willows?

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?

Nope!

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

Anna Karenina

10. Who wrote the 1840 poem "Sordello" which begins: 'Who will, may hear Sordello's story told"?


I find that I need to write down my best guesses or else I cheat a little and think, "Well, that was on the tip of my tongue... I'll give myself a point."
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Are you ready for this? "First Lines" nossy - 11/01/2011 04:40:12 PM 915 Views
Answers nossy - 11/01/2011 04:43:24 PM 769 Views
5/10 *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2011 05:49:46 PM 281 Views
1/10 for me. So to answer your question, "no." *NM* Aemon - 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM 285 Views
That is one more then I got random thoughts - 11/01/2011 04:58:12 PM 644 Views
aw, at least you tried. nossy - 11/01/2011 05:02:16 PM 680 Views
What can I say I was an engineering major random thoughts - 11/01/2011 06:01:51 PM 693 Views
7/10 Michael - 11/01/2011 05:02:26 PM 700 Views
Everybody's a critic. nossy - 11/01/2011 05:07:58 PM 665 Views
I fear we are shaming our site; 5. Joel - 11/01/2011 05:29:04 PM 805 Views
4/10 *NM* Stephen - 11/01/2011 06:56:47 PM 284 Views
6/10 Rebekah - 11/01/2011 07:07:46 PM 649 Views
My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct. Tim - 11/01/2011 07:11:59 PM 676 Views
Re: My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct. globug0822 - 13/01/2011 12:10:21 AM 687 Views
I'm afraid I only got 1.5 out of ten right myself SilverWarder - 11/01/2011 08:04:48 PM 793 Views
Just 4. Clover - 11/01/2011 08:57:27 PM 704 Views
This lacks "Call Me Ishmael." Dannymac - 12/01/2011 06:12:56 AM 681 Views
That one is just too easy. *NM* jh - 12/01/2011 07:12:17 PM 297 Views
Many of them are easy if you know the book. Legolas - 13/01/2011 09:59:31 PM 640 Views
Possibly. jh - 14/01/2011 07:28:25 AM 652 Views
I was born ready snoopcester - 12/01/2011 09:54:21 AM 760 Views
I hate poetry: 3/10. *NM* ironclad - 12/01/2011 11:00:54 AM 299 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 711 Views
Re: To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie. ironclad - 12/01/2011 08:03:57 PM 681 Views
2 answers and 2 guesses. ^_^ globug0822 - 13/01/2011 12:07:15 AM 648 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 650 Views
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