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    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
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    Can you identify these famous first lines?


    http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_politi....htm?par=ukmsn


    Got 9/10 correct...

    Here is another quiz: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_61/Famou...ovel_Quiz.html


    I got 10/13 this time :-/ Should read more 'modern books'...
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    Got 8/10 correct
    I have a plan: attack!

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    Gee.......9 of 10 correct.......got #10 wrong (been a few decades since I read it)...

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    8/10, I impressed myself...
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda


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    7/10, don't expect anyone will score less than that.
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    kilted, we tied.
    plus, i read the secret garden (well, decades ago) and got it wrong!
    shh!!!
    the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.

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    A few very lucky (and a couple unlucky) guesses got me 8/10. I think I actually KNEW the answer to five...
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    Life is the first gift, love is the second, understanding the third. ~ Marge Piercy
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    but only he who sees takes of his shoes. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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    Quote Originally Posted by kilted exile
    7/10, don't expect anyone will score less than that.
    Guess again.
    Six.

    Mwahhahahhaaa.
    If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.

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    I haven't read most of the books, if I read 10 out of the 40 mentioned it'd be too many ahem
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay
    I haven't read most of the books, if I read 10 out of the 40 mentioned it'd be too many ahem
    What 40? anyway8/10 but 5,8, and 10 were luckey guesses
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    Good morning, Campers! Jay's Avatar
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    if I remember, 10 questions, all with 4 possible answers...
    I have a plan: attack!

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    7/10......surprised myself there, didn't know that I'd recognise so many!
    Books are the carriers of civillisation- Henri "Papillon" Charriere

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay
    if I remember, 10 questions, all with 4 possible answers...
    So you must have read 30 at your worst possible luck and ten at your best possible luck to certainly score ten.
    If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taliesin
    So you must have read 30 at your worst possible luck and ten at your best possible luck to certainly score ten.
    No you just have to sort of Know what the books are about then see if the line fits
    My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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    Indeed, Nightshade
    I have a plan: attack!

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