Statistics for Books by First Sentences

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  • This quiz has been taken 108 times
  • The average score is 9 of 17

Answer Stats

Opening LineBook% Correct
"Call me Ishmael."Moby Dick
88%
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene..."Romeo and Juliet
87%
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."A tale of Two Cities
86%
"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
83%
“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”Little Women
71%
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."The Old Man and the Sea
70%
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."1984
68%
“When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”To Kill a Mockingbird
68%
''Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago..."Don Quixote
60%
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
51%
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."The Great Gatsby
46%
"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's secret citadel."The Odyssey
46%
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”Anna Karenina
44%
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."War and Peace
26%
"It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest..."The Jungle Book
12%
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
12%
"They shoot the white girl first."Paradise
3%

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