Statistics for Opening Words of Famous Books

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  • This quiz has been taken 87 times
  • The average score is 10 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
87%
"They call me Ishmael"Moby Dick
86%
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.Don Quixote
84%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.To Kill a Mockingbird
84%
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.A Tale of Two Cities
82%
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'1984
77%
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.The Catcher in the Rye
77%
'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
76%
'You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy'The Color Purple
59%
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.David Copperfield
57%
"I'm pretty much f*ckedThe Martian
51%
The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
51%
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.The Trial
43%
The past is a foreign country' they do things differently there.The Go-Between
24%
The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.2001 a Space Odyssey
22%

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