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!"
John Betjeman, a very wise man
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"?
Rebecca
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"?
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?
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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Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Are you ready for this? "First Lines"
- 11/01/2011 04:40:12 PM
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1/10 for me. So to answer your question, "no." 
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- 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM
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- 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM
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That is one more then I got
- 11/01/2011 04:58:12 PM
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This lacks "Call Me Ishmael."
- 12/01/2011 06:12:56 AM
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That one is just too easy. *NM*
- 12/01/2011 07:12:17 PM
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I was born ready
- 12/01/2011 09:54:21 AM
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2/10. I rarely read poetry. To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie.
- 12/01/2011 04:51:57 PM
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Re: To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie.
- 12/01/2011 08:03:57 PM
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5, the easiest five I think (questions 1, 3, 4 by default, 7 by default and 9).
- 13/01/2011 10:01:02 PM
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