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Opening Words of Famous Books
Given the 'Opening Words' of a book, choose from which book the words are derived:
The Author of the correct book will be given at end of quiz below the answers:
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Last updated: February 22, 2022
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| First submitted | February 22, 2022 |
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1.
"They call me Ishmael"
Fiddler on the roof
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The old man and the sea
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Moby Dick
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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Herman Melville
2.
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'
1984
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Ulysses
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In Search of Lost Time
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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George Orwell
3.
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'
Emma
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The Great Gatsby
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Madame Bovary
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Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
4.
'You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy'
Lolita
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The Color Purple
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Midnight's Children
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Alice Walker
5.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Gulliver's Travels
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The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
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The Sun also Rises
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The Magic Mountain
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Douglas Adams
6.
"I'm pretty much f*cked
The Martian
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The Mountaineer
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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The usual suspects
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Andy Weir
7.
The past is a foreign country' they do things differently there.
The Odyssey
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Wuthering Heights
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The Go-Between
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Leslie Hartley (L. P. Hartley)
8.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.
A Tale of Two Cities
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War and Peace
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The Lord of the Rings
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Les Miserables
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Charles Dickens
9.
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.
A Passage to India
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Lord of the Flies
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J. D. Salinger
10.
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
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Brave New World
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Vanity Fair
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A Farewell to Arms
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Charles Dickens
11.
The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
Journey to the End of The Night
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The Scarlet Letter
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Jules Verne
12.
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
Crime and Punishment
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The Trial
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Paradise Lost
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Waiting for Godot
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Franz Kafka
13.
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.
Lord Jim
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The Tin Drum
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King Lear
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Don Quixote
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Miguel De Cervantes
14.
The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
The War of the Worlds
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2001 a Space Odyssey
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All the King's Men
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Arthur C. Clarke
15.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Oliver Twist
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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The Stranger
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Harper Lee
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