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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