Books by First Sentences - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 137 times
The average score is 9 of 17

Answer Stats

Opening Line	Book	% Correct
"Call me Ishmael."	Moby Dick	89%
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene..."	Romeo and Juliet	89%
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."	A tale of Two Cities	85%
"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	83%
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."	The Old Man and the Sea	73%
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."	1984	72%
“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”	Little Women	72%
“When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”	To Kill a Mockingbird	66%
''Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago..."	Don Quixote	64%
"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's secret citadel."	The Odyssey	53%
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	50%
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”	Anna Karenina	48%
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."	The Great Gatsby	45%
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."	War and Peace	26%
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	14%
"It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest..."	The Jungle Book	11%
"They shoot the white girl first."	Paradise	3%

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