Famous First Lines Quiz

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05-19-2005, 08:29 PM
Scheherazade

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'...
05-19-2005, 08:37 PM
Jay

Got 8/10 correct
05-19-2005, 11:08 PM
baddad

Gee.......9 of 10 correct.......got #10 wrong (been a few decades since I read it)...
05-20-2005, 09:35 AM
papayahed

8/10, I impressed myself...
05-20-2005, 10:24 AM
kilted exile

7/10, don't expect anyone will score less than that.
05-20-2005, 10:47 AM
amuse

kilted, we tied. ;)
plus, i read the secret garden (well, decades ago) and got it wrong!
05-20-2005, 11:27 AM
Snukes

A few very lucky (and a couple unlucky) guesses got me 8/10. :) I think I actually KNEW the answer to five...
05-20-2005, 11:41 AM
Taliesin

Quote:

Originally Posted by kilted exile

7/10, don't expect anyone will score less than that.

Guess again.
Six.

Mwahhahahhaaa.
05-20-2005, 11:44 AM
Jay

I haven't read most of the books, if I read 10 out of the 40 mentioned it'd be too many :p ahem :blush:
05-20-2005, 01:08 PM
Nightshade

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 :p ahem :blush:

What 40? anyway8/10 but 5,8, and 10 were luckey guesses
05-20-2005, 02:28 PM
Jay

if I remember, 10 questions, all with 4 possible answers...
05-20-2005, 04:50 PM
Rachy

7/10......surprised myself there, didn't know that I'd recognise so many!
05-21-2005, 03:59 AM
Taliesin

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.
05-21-2005, 07:32 AM
Nightshade

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 ;)
05-21-2005, 12:22 PM
Jay

Indeed, Nightshade :D
05-21-2005, 12:47 PM
Koa

6. But I got right those I knew, and tried the luck in those I didnt know...
All the time I was waiting for the famous quote about families with which Anna Karenina begins....but then it was all English-written literature, if I'm not wrong.
05-21-2005, 05:21 PM
mono

I got 8/10 - not bad. :)
06-29-2005, 09:09 PM
shortysweetp

8/13 i agree i missed all the 'modern books'
06-30-2005, 12:53 AM
mono

10/13 also - not bad, considering a few of the questions I had no chance at answering correctly. :p
06-30-2005, 03:09 PM
Monica

8/13 :bawling: I study literature... But I think I can forgive myself - only finished the first year. And it's only English and American literature that I study :D
06-30-2005, 03:54 PM
Rachy

8/13......Oh well I remembered the important ones! Hehe. At least I remembered the ones I have read!
06-30-2005, 04:42 PM
Koa

er... 7/13. But I got all the Russians right with no hesitation :D
03-20-2007, 10:50 PM
Scheherazade

~#~ REVIVED ~#~
03-20-2007, 11:05 PM
Shalot

Well, I got 7/10. The results said something along the lines of this: "you're an avid reader but you haven't picked up a book in a while" (or roughly thereabouts...) I guess that quiz was pretty accurate :)
03-20-2007, 11:09 PM
Scheherazade

There are two quizes actually, Shallot, which I added just now to my first post in the thread. The second one might have more of the books you are familiar with...

:)
03-21-2007, 05:52 PM
Whifflingpin

"You must have been an English major"

"Let's face it, every brain needs a good work out once and again"
03-21-2007, 05:57 PM
TEND

8/10
10/13
03-21-2007, 07:59 PM
Pendragon

9/10 Missed The Scarlet Letter of all things, which I have read and I’ve never read Cujo, The Secret Garden, The Catcher in the Rye, or Jaws. , on my word of honor!

12/13 second list Missed number three. I put Bleak House but no matter, I hadn't read either book... nor some of the others, Like Satanic Verses, never intend to read it... Good guesser!

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03-23-2007, 03:52 PM
BibliophileTRJ

Woo-Hoo 10/10! :banana: (a couple of them were educated guesses)

The second quiz took me down a peg or two......8/13 :( (I never claimed to be educated!)