Statistics for Literature by Opening Lines

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times	A Tale of Two Cities	100%
Call me Ishmael	Moby Dick	80%
Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal	Harry Potter	60%
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary	The Raven	50%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	1984	40%
It was a pleasure to burn.	Fahrenheit 451	40%
Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.	Lolita	40%
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.	One Hundred Years of Solitude	40%
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York	The Bell Jar	40%
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe	The Jabberwocky	40%
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.	The Metamorphosis	40%
Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.	The Trial	40%
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way	Anna Karenina	30%
Now is the winter of our discontent	Richard III	30%
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.	Slaughterhouse Five	30%
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood	The Road Not Taken	30%
Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.	The Stranger	30%
Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote	Canterbury Tales	20%
Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.	Finnegan's Wake	20%
I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased.	Notes from Underground	10%