Statistics for First lines of famous novels

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  • The average score is 16 of 38

Answer Stats

HintAnswer% Correct
Moby Dick
90%
1984
77%
Pride and Prejudice
76%
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
73%
Old man and the sea
72%
Peter Pan
67%
To Kill a Mockingbird
66%
The Catcher in the Rye
64%
Don Quixote
59%
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.J.K. Rowling
56%
Fahrenheit 451
53%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.George Orwell
53%
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen
52%
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.Ernest Hemingway
49%
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
49%
Call me Ishmael.Herman Melville,
48%
Anna Karenina
46%
David Copperfield
46%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.Harper Lee
45%
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 Copperfiel kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.J.D. Salinger
42%
The Great Gatsby
40%
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.Miguel de Cervantes
36%
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.Charles Dickens
35%
It was a pleasure to burn.Ray Bradbury
35%
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
32%
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.Douglas Adams
30%
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.F.Scott Fitzgerald
30%
The Stranger
28%
Catch 22
26%
Ulysses
24%
All children, except one, grow up.J.M. Barrie
23%
Mother died today.Albert Camus
21%
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.James Joyce
20%
It was love at first sight.Heller
16%
The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.The Dark Tower
15%
Stephen King
13%
They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
11%
Ken Kesey
7%

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