Stats: First Lines and Final Resting Place

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First line	Resting place	Answer	% Correct
It is a truth universally acknowleged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife	Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire	Jane Austen	75%
When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?	Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire	William Shakespeare	75%
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times	Westminster Abbey, London	Charles Dickens	67%
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day	Haworth, West Yorkshire	Charlotte Bronte	67%
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.	Wolvercote Oxfordshire	J.R.R. Tolkien	67%
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:	Guildford, Surrey	Lewis Carroll	67%
My love is like a red red rose	Dumfries	Robert Burns	67%
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy	Oxford, Oxfordshire	C.S. Lewis	58%
Once upon a time there were four little rabbits; and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.	near Sawrey, Cumbria	Beatrix Potter	50%
These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket	Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire	Roald Dahl	50%
On an evening in the latter part of May, a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining vale of Blakemoor or Blackmoor.	Stinsford, Dorset	Thomas Hardy	50%
I wandered lonely as a cloud	Grasmere, Cumbria	William Wordsworth	50%
Linnet Ridgeway!	Cholsey, Oxfordshire	Agatha Christie	42%
Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again	Fowey, Cornwall	Daphne du Maurier	42%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen	Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire	George Orwell	42%
Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart?	Hucknall, Nottinghamshire	Lord Byron	42%
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.	Bournemouth, Dorset	Mary Shelley	42%
It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips	Westminster Abbey, London	Rudyard Kipling	42%
Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flower herself.	Rodmell, East Sussex	Virginia Woolf	42%
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning	Sevenhampton, Wiltshire	Ian Fleming	33%
All children, except one, grow up	Kirriemuir, Tayside	J.M. Barrie	33%
The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.	Oxford, Oxfordshire	Kenneth Grahame	33%
Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night.....	Minstead, Hampshire	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	33%
Darrell Rivers looked at herself in the glass.	Golders Green, London	Enid Blyton	25%
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.	Highgate, London	George Eliot	25%
That Witsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday did my three-quarters empty train, pull out...	Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire	Philip Larkin	25%
It was a queer, sultry summer, they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didnt know what I was doing in New York	Heptonstall, West Yorkshire	Sylvia Plath	25%
A squat grey building of only thirty four stories.	Compton, Surrey	Aldous Huxley	17%
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it	Lamas, Norfolk	Anna Sewell	17%
To begin at the beginning.	Laugharne, Carmathenshire	Dylan Thomas	17%
They were not railway children to begin with.	St Mary in the Marsh, Kent	Edith Nesbit	17%
Mr Sniggs, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Postlethwaite, the Domestic Bursar, sat alone in Mr. Sniggs' room overlooking the garden quad at Scone College.	Combe Florey, Somerset	Evelyn Waugh	17%
I sit in a pitch-pine panelled kitchen-living room with an otter asleep upon its back among the cushions on the sofa......	Sandaig, Highlands	Gavin Maxwell	17%
There were four of us; George and William Samuel Harris, and myself and Montmorency.	Ewelme, Oxfordshire	Jerome K Jerome	17%
Those priviledged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight.....	Bury, West Sussex	John Galsworthy	17%
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing....	Coxwold, North Yorkshire	Laurence Sterne	17%
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe at page one hundred and twenty nine, you will find it thus written:	Kensal Green, London	Wilkie Collins	17%
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way to the lagoon	Bowerchalke, Wiltshire	William Golding	17%
The circumstances which I am about the relate to my juvenile readers took place in the year 1647.	Langham, Norfolk	Captain Marryat	8%
Once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep and his name was Tom.	Eversley, Hampshire	Charles Kingsley	8%
From the bridge of the Island Queen, which three times a week made the voyage between Obaig and the outer islands of the Hebrides.....	Eoligarry, Western Isles	Compton MacKenzie	8%
Serena Staverley was happy at Staverley Court.	Hatfield, Hertfordshire	Dame Barbara Cartland	8%
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.	Finchingfield, Essex	Dodie Smith	8%
When Count Hulagu Bloot, the tyrant of Bombardy - who loves torturing people and eating peppermint creams and has a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People in his bookcase......	Harray, Orkney	Eric Linklater	8%
Twilight over meadow and water, the eve-star shining above the hill, and Old Nog the heron crying kra-a-ark! as his slow dark wings carried him down the estuary.	Georgeham, Devon	Henry Williamson	8%
One Wednesday afternoon in late September Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening.	Ashes over the Isle of Wight	H.G. Wells	8%
Arthur Birling: Giving us the port, Edna?	Hubberholme, North Yorkshire	J.B. Priestley	8%
At noon today I and my white greyhound, Mayflower, set out for a walk into a very beautiful world.......	Swallowfield, Berkshire	Mary Mitford	8%
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough	St Enodoc, Cornwall	Sir John Betjeman	8%
In wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf? said my brother's wife.	Leatherhead, Surrey	Anthony Hope	0%
Those two girls, Constance and Sophia Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious.	Burslem, Staffordshire	Arnold Bennett	0%
Colonel Verney's office was on the top floor of a tall building in London.	Brookwood, Surrey	Dennis Wheatley	0%
"Edith" said Margaret, gently. "Edith!"	Knutsford, Cheshire	Elizabeth Gaskell	0%
Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning's letters.	Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire	George Bernard Shaw	0%
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.	Elsfield, Oxfordshire	John Buchan	0%
As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den......	Bunhill Fields, London	John Bunyan	0%
I ne'er was struck before that hour, With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower, And stole my heart away complete.	Helpston, Cambridgeshire	John Clare	0%
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of her sails, and was at rest.	Canterbury, Kent	Joseph Conrad	0%
It all began with William's aunt, who was in a good temper that morning, and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her......	Eltham, London	Richmal Crompton	0%
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the River Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster	Dryburgh, Borders	Sir Walter Scott	0%

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