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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 863 Views
Answers nossy - 11/01/2011 04:43:24 PM 713 Views
5/10 *NM* Darth_Katie - 11/01/2011 05:49:46 PM 255 Views
1/10 for me. So to answer your question, "no." *NM* Aemon - 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM 261 Views
That is one more then I got random thoughts - 11/01/2011 04:58:12 PM 592 Views
aw, at least you tried. nossy - 11/01/2011 05:02:16 PM 634 Views
What can I say I was an engineering major random thoughts - 11/01/2011 06:01:51 PM 645 Views
7/10 Michael - 11/01/2011 05:02:26 PM 652 Views
Everybody's a critic. nossy - 11/01/2011 05:07:58 PM 621 Views
I fear we are shaming our site; 5. Joel - 11/01/2011 05:29:04 PM 754 Views
4/10 *NM* Stephen - 11/01/2011 06:56:47 PM 261 Views
6/10 Rebekah - 11/01/2011 07:07:46 PM 605 Views
My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct. Tim - 11/01/2011 07:11:59 PM 623 Views
Re: My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct. globug0822 - 13/01/2011 12:10:21 AM 600 Views
I'm afraid I only got 1.5 out of ten right myself SilverWarder - 11/01/2011 08:04:48 PM 743 Views
Just 4. Clover - 11/01/2011 08:57:27 PM 649 Views
This lacks "Call Me Ishmael." Dannymac - 12/01/2011 06:12:56 AM 629 Views
That one is just too easy. *NM* jh - 12/01/2011 07:12:17 PM 270 Views
Many of them are easy if you know the book. Legolas - 13/01/2011 09:59:31 PM 588 Views
Possibly. jh - 14/01/2011 07:28:25 AM 600 Views
I was born ready snoopcester - 12/01/2011 09:54:21 AM 714 Views
I hate poetry: 3/10. *NM* ironclad - 12/01/2011 11:00:54 AM 275 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 657 Views
Re: To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie. ironclad - 12/01/2011 08:03:57 PM 620 Views
2 answers and 2 guesses. ^_^ globug0822 - 13/01/2011 12:07:15 AM 593 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 601 Views
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