In the spirit of the theme, we at The Galvanizers have put together a quiz to test your mettle on famous first lines. There are no prizes awarded except for digital hugs, and polite claps for those who don’t like to be touched. (If it’s prizes you want, we do have an ongoing giveaway!).
This is all in good fun – what did you get? Post your scores in the comments below and tell us how you did!
Great Beginnings!
How well do you know your famous firsts? Take our quick quiz to find out!
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Question 1
"Call me Ishmael."
A
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
B
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
C
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
D
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Question 2
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
A
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
B
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
C
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
D
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Question 3
“These were the ones that really hurt. Can you see your name in that lot, Laura? I reckon you’d sneak into the top ten, but there’s no place for you in the top five; those places are reserved for the kind of humiliations and heartbreaks that you’re just not capable of delivering.”
A
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
B
1984 - George Orwell
C
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
D
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Question 4
“My father took one hundred and thirty two minutes to die. I counted.”
A
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
B
Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta
C
If I Stay - Gayle Forman
D
The Spectacular Now - Tim Tharp
Question 5
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."
A
Green Eggs & Ham - Dr. Seuss
B
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
C
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
D
My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
Question 6
"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death."
A
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
B
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
C
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
D
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Question 7
"All children, except one, grow up"
A
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
B
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
C
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
D
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Question 8
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
A
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
B
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
C
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
D
The Companions: The Sundering - R.A. Salvatore
Question 9
"First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s how I usually see things.
Or at least, how I try.
*** HERE IS A SMALL FACT ***
You are going to die."
A
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
B
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
C
The Book Thief - Marcus Zuzak
D
Holes - Louis Sachar
Question 10
"Where's Papa going with that axe?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
A
Charlotte's Webb - E.B. White
B
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
C
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
D
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Question 11
"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy."
A
A Midsummer Night's Dream - WIlliam Shakespeare
B
Oedipus - Sophocles
C
The Odyssey - Homer
D
The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
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