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"?
Pride and Prejudice.
2. Name the author of the poem "Slough" with its notorious first line: "Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!"
Don't know; I'm going to guess Roger McGough for no good reason.
3. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the first line of a sonnet by which writer?
William Shakespeare, of course.
4. Which novel by Daphne du Maurier begins with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"?
I feel like I should know this, but I don't. Alas.
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. No-eye deer.
6. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" is the first line of part of a poem called "Lucy". Who wrote it?
Still no-eye deer.
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. Although it sounds like it could be the beginning of a spy novel...
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?
Sounds like Mr Edward Estlin Cummings to me.
9. Which novel by Leo Tolstoy begins: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"?
Anna Karenina.
10. Who wrote the 1840 poem "Sordello" which begins: 'Who will, may hear Sordello's story told"?
Still no-eye deer. Going to guess Lord Byron.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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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- 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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My answers (written without looking). 4/10 correct.
- 11/01/2011 07:11:59 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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