Sunday Special - Famous First Lines
Just choose the novel these first lines are from.
1. "Norman Bates heard the
noise and a shock went through him."
(Too Easy - No Multiple Choice....)
2. "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have
supposed her born to be an heroine."
a. - Northanger Abbey
b. - The Mill on the Floss
c. - Little Dorrit
d. - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
3. "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a
rattlesnake - not a very big one."
a. - Of Mice and Men
b. - Lonesome Dove
c. - For Whom the Bell Tolls
d.- Riders of the Purple Sage
4. "If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the
Policeman at the cross-roads."
a. - Bed-knobs and Broomsticks
b. - Peter Pan
c. - Mary Poppins
d. - 101 Dalmations
5. "I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street,
waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from
the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over
to me."
a. - The Great Gatsby
b. - The Thin Man
c. - My Gun is Quick
d. - The Good Earth
6. "My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on
27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old."
a. - Mrs. Dalloway
b. - David Copperfield
c. - Fifth Business
d. - Death on the Nile
7. "By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all
about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953."
a. - The Dead Zone
b. - Christine
c. - The Shining
d. - The Stand
8. "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on
her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the
natives called the Lahore Museum."
a. - King Solomon's Mines
b. - Kim
c. - Lord Jim
d. - The Bush Baby
9. "'They made a silly mistake, though,' the Professor of History said, and
his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his
features at the memory."
a. - The Third Man
b. - A Summer Bird-Cage
c. - Lucky Jim
d. - Rabbit, Run
10. "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with
it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely."
a. - Oliver Twist
b. - The Wouldbegoods
c. - Tom Sawyer
d. - Through the Looking Glass
11. "Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke
soon after dawn."
a. - On the Beach
b. - The Bedford Incident
c. - The Hunt for Red October
d. - The Tanks of Tammuz
12. "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a
private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public
ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."
a. - The Open Boat
b. - The Great Gatsby
c. - Tom Jones
d. - Lolita
13. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night,
but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
(Too Easy ... No Multiple Choice)
14. "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream."
a. - Fatu-Hiva
b. - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
c. - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
d. - The Haunting of Hill House
15. "I first met him in Piraeus."
a. - A Farewell to Arms
b. - Zorba the Greek
c. - Heart of Darkness
d. - A Handful of Dust
16. "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having
one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met
Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather
jacket ripped off."
a. - All the King's Men
b. - Condominium
c. - Get Shorty
d. - Striptease
17. "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at
my mother's funeral."
a. - Brideshead Revisited
b. - The Human Comedy
c. - Travels with my Aunt
d. - Carry on, Jeeves
18. "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final
scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to
visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
(Too Easy ... No Multiple Choice)
19. "For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five
blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence."
a. - The Blackboard Jungle
b. - A Stone for Danny Fisher
c. - The Amboy Dukes
d. - The Chosen
20. "It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I
am going to talk about."
a. - Ivanhoe
b. - Life on the Mississippi
c. - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
d. - Of Mice and Men
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1. Psycho
2. - a
3. - b
4. - c
5. - b
6. - c
7. - a
8. - b
9. - c
10. - d
11. - a
12. - c
13. Animal Farm
14. - d
15. - b
16. - c
17. - c
18. Dune
19. - d
20. - c
Just choose the novel these first lines are from.
1. "Norman Bates heard the
noise and a shock went through him."
(Too Easy - No Multiple Choice....)
2. "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have
supposed her born to be an heroine."
a. - Northanger Abbey
b. - The Mill on the Floss
c. - Little Dorrit
d. - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
3. "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a
rattlesnake - not a very big one."
a. - Of Mice and Men
b. - Lonesome Dove
c. - For Whom the Bell Tolls
d.- Riders of the Purple Sage
4. "If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the
Policeman at the cross-roads."
a. - Bed-knobs and Broomsticks
b. - Peter Pan
c. - Mary Poppins
d. - 101 Dalmations
5. "I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street,
waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from
the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over
to me."
a. - The Great Gatsby
b. - The Thin Man
c. - My Gun is Quick
d. - The Good Earth
6. "My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on
27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old."
a. - Mrs. Dalloway
b. - David Copperfield
c. - Fifth Business
d. - Death on the Nile
7. "By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all
about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953."
a. - The Dead Zone
b. - Christine
c. - The Shining
d. - The Stand
8. "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on
her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the
natives called the Lahore Museum."
a. - King Solomon's Mines
b. - Kim
c. - Lord Jim
d. - The Bush Baby
9. "'They made a silly mistake, though,' the Professor of History said, and
his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his
features at the memory."
a. - The Third Man
b. - A Summer Bird-Cage
c. - Lucky Jim
d. - Rabbit, Run
10. "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with
it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely."
a. - Oliver Twist
b. - The Wouldbegoods
c. - Tom Sawyer
d. - Through the Looking Glass
11. "Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke
soon after dawn."
a. - On the Beach
b. - The Bedford Incident
c. - The Hunt for Red October
d. - The Tanks of Tammuz
12. "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a
private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public
ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."
a. - The Open Boat
b. - The Great Gatsby
c. - Tom Jones
d. - Lolita
13. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night,
but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
(Too Easy ... No Multiple Choice)
14. "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream."
a. - Fatu-Hiva
b. - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
c. - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
d. - The Haunting of Hill House
15. "I first met him in Piraeus."
a. - A Farewell to Arms
b. - Zorba the Greek
c. - Heart of Darkness
d. - A Handful of Dust
16. "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having
one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met
Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather
jacket ripped off."
a. - All the King's Men
b. - Condominium
c. - Get Shorty
d. - Striptease
17. "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at
my mother's funeral."
a. - Brideshead Revisited
b. - The Human Comedy
c. - Travels with my Aunt
d. - Carry on, Jeeves
18. "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final
scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to
visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
(Too Easy ... No Multiple Choice)
19. "For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five
blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence."
a. - The Blackboard Jungle
b. - A Stone for Danny Fisher
c. - The Amboy Dukes
d. - The Chosen
20. "It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I
am going to talk about."
a. - Ivanhoe
b. - Life on the Mississippi
c. - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
d. - Of Mice and Men
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. Psycho
2. - a
3. - b
4. - c
5. - b
6. - c
7. - a
8. - b
9. - c
10. - d
11. - a
12. - c
13. Animal Farm
14. - d
15. - b
16. - c
17. - c
18. Dune
19. - d
20. - c