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Book & Author by famous incipit - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 34 times
- The average score is 28 of 62
Answer Stats
| Hint | Author & Book Name | % Correct |
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| “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” | Lolita | 83%
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| “Call me Ishmael.” | Moby-Dick | 83%
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| “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” | The Hobbit | 80%
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| Franz Kafka | 77%
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| Franz Kafka | 77%
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| Charles Dickens | 73%
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| Charles Dickens | 73%
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| “In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack…” | Don Quixote | 73%
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| Jane Austen | 73%
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| J.R.R. Tolkien | 73%
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| “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 | 73%
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| “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” | 1984 | 70%
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| George Orwell | 70%
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| “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” | A Tale of Two Cities | 67%
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| Herman Melville | 67%
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| “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” | The Metamorphosis | 67%
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| “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 | 67%
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| “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” | Anna Karenina | 63%
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| Ernest Hemingway | 63%
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| Vladimir Nabokov | 63%
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| Charlotte Brontë | 60%
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| Emily Brontë | 60%
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| “It was a pleasure to burn.” | Fahrenheit 451 | 60%
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| Leo Tolstoy | 60%
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| Miguel de Cervantes | 57%
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| “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” | The Trial | 53%
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| “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” | Jane Eyre | 47%
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| “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.” | The Grapes of Wrath | 47%
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| Gabriel García Márquez | 43%
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| “The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.” | Lord of the Flies | 43%
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| Ray Bradbury | 43%
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| “1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.” | Wuthering Heights | 43%
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| “I am an invisible man.” | Invisible Man | 40%
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| John Steinbeck | 40%
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| “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born…” | The Catcher in the Rye | 40%
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| J.D. Salinger | 37%
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| Albert Camus | 33%
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| “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” | David Copperfield | 33%
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| “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.” | The Stranger (L’Étranger) | 33%
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| “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 33%
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| “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” | Rebecca | 33%
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| William Golding | 33%
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| “A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.” | Brave New World | 27%
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| Daphne du Maurier | 27%
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| Joseph Conrad | 27%
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| Sylvia Plath | 27%
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| James Joyce | 23%
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| Ralph Ellison | 23%
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| “All this happened, more or less.” | Slaughterhouse-Five | 23%
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| “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs.” | The Bell Jar | 23%
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| “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather…” | Ulysses | 23%
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| “It was love at first sight.” | Catch-22 | 20%
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| “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” | Frankenstein | 20%
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| “The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.” | Heart of Darkness | 20%
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| Mary Shelley | 20%
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| Aldous Huxley | 17%
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| Kurt Vonnegut | 17%
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| Joseph Heller | 13%
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| William Faulkner | 13%
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| “What’s it going to be then, eh?” | A Clockwork Orange | 10%
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| “Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.” | The Sound and the Fury | 10%
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| Anthony Burgess | 7%
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