A great novel often grabs the reader's attention from the moment the reader turns to the first page. This trivia game features twenty memorable first lines of famous novels. How many do you know?
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Famous First Lines of Novels Trivia Game |
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. |
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1984 |
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You better not never tell nobody by God. |
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The Color Purple |
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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. |
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The Red Badge of Courage |
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Call me Ishmael. |
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Moby-Dick |
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... |
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A Tale of Two Cities |
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born... |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
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This is the saddest story I have ever heard. |
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The Good Soldier |
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. |
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Pride and Prejudice |
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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. |
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The Trial |
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Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. |
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The Sound and the Fury |
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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Golf Stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish. |
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The Old Man and the Sea |
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He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built...which made you think of a charging bull. |
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Lord Jim |
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There was a boy called Eustace Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. |
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
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They shoot the white girl first. |
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Paradise |
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It was a pleasure to burn. |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
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We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. |
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Tracks |
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It was the day my grandmother exploded. |
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The Crow Road |
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A screaming comes across the sky. |
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Gravity's Rainbow |
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. |
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Murphy |
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When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
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