Opening Lines

Question 1

Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Answer 1

Little Women by Lousia May Alcott

Question 1

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Answer 1

Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 1

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 on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

Answer 1

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Question 2

124 was spiteful.

Answer 2

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Question 3

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Answer 3

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Question 3

You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.

Answer 3

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Question 4

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, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Answer 4

The Catcher I the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Question 5

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

Answer 5

Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Question 6

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.

Answer 6

Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

Question 7

Call me Ishmael.

Answer 7

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Question 8

All Children, except one, grow up.

Answer 8

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

Question 9

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Answer 9

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Question 11

It was a pleasure to burn

Answer 11

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Question 12

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Answer 12

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Question 13

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some adive that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

Answer 13

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 15

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

Answer 15

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Question 16

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

Answer 16

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Question 17

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon whenhis father took him to discover ice.

Answer 17

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 18

It was a bright cold dat in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Answer 18

1984, George Orwell

Question 19

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.

Answer 19

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Question 20

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed.

Answer 20

Ulysses by James Joyce

Question 21

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, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Answer 21

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Question 22

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Answer 22

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Question 23

Mother died today. Or Maybe, yesterday; I cant be sure

Answer 23

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Question 24

He was an old man who fished alon in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eightybyfour days now without taking a fish.

Answer 24

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Question 25

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

Answer 25

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Question 27

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

Answer 27

Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Question 28

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show.

Answer 28

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Question 29

You better not never tell nobody but God.

Answer 29

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Question 30

All this happened, more or les.

Answer 30

Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

Question 31

In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.

Answer 31

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers