1. Which novel by Jane Austen starts with this line: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"?
I'll go with the popular obvious choice and say P&P.
2. Name the author of the poem "Slough" with its notorious first line: "Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!"
Let's say Wilfren Owen; if nothing else I should get some kind of bonus points for recalling his name solely from memory.
3. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the first line of a sonnet by which writer?
THAT one I know, Shakespeares Sonnet XVIII, my personal favorite. Of course, I expect most people will know that one, since that and "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" are probably his most famous.
4. Which novel by Daphne du Maurier begins with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"?
No. Earthly. Idea.
5. Which 1872 novel by Thomas Hardy used as its title the first line of a song in Shakespeare's "As You Like It".
Ditto
6. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" is the first line of part of a poem called "Lucy". Who wrote it?
Um. If it weren't English I'd say Dante; as it is I'll go with Keats.
7. Which book by Kenneth Grahame begins: "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home"?
The Wind in the Willows. Apparently on this one I'll either know immediately or not at all.
8. "I sing the body electric" is the first line of a poem by Walt Whitman. Can you name the US writer who used that line as the title of a 1969 collection of short stories?
Case in point; Ray Bradbury.
9. Which novel by Leo Tolstoy begins: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"?
Ah, multiple guess; at least I have a chance, and will go with Anna Kareninina, the spelling of which I'm sure I mangled.
10. Who wrote the 1840 poem "Sordello" which begins: 'Who will, may hear Sordello's story told"?
Go with Keats again, simply because I'd feel awful if I picked him in the wrong place.
OK, having looked at the answers now I feel really bad about the last one, which I should've known.
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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Are you ready for this? "First Lines"
- 11/01/2011 04:40:12 PM
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1/10 for me. So to answer your question, "no." 
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- 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM
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*NM*
- 11/01/2011 04:55:49 PM
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That is one more then I got
- 11/01/2011 04:58:12 PM
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I fear we are shaming our site; 5.
- 11/01/2011 05:29:04 PM
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- 11/01/2011 05:29:04 PM
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This lacks "Call Me Ishmael."
- 12/01/2011 06:12:56 AM
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That one is just too easy. *NM*
- 12/01/2011 07:12:17 PM
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2/10. I rarely read poetry. To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie.
- 12/01/2011 04:51:57 PM
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Re: To be honest, I only knew the Jane Austen line from the movie.
- 12/01/2011 08:03:57 PM
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5, the easiest five I think (questions 1, 3, 4 by default, 7 by default and 9).
- 13/01/2011 10:01:02 PM
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