First lines of famous novels - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Moby Dick
91%
1984
75%
Pride and Prejudice
75%
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
72%
Old man and the sea
70%
Peter Pan
69%
To Kill a Mockingbird
68%
The Catcher in the Rye
63%
Don Quixote
59%
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. J.K. Rowling
56%
Fahrenheit 451
53%
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
51%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell
50%
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
50%
Anna Karenina
48%
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. Ernest Hemingway
48%
Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville,
48%
David Copperfield
45%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. Harper Lee
45%
The Great Gatsby
43%
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfiel kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. J.D. Salinger
40%
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. Charles Dickens
36%
Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. Miguel de Cervantes
35%
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
34%
It was a pleasure to burn. Ray Bradbury
34%
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. F.Scott Fitzgerald
31%
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Douglas Adams
30%
The Stranger
29%
Catch 22
26%
All children, except one, grow up. J.M. Barrie
24%
Ulysses
24%
Mother died today. Albert Camus
21%
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. James Joyce
20%
It was love at first sight. Heller
15%
The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. The Dark Tower
14%
They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
12%
Stephen King
12%
Ken Kesey
7%
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