A new series of quizzes – simply answer yes or no.
20 famous opening lines, is it linked to the correct famous book?
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Fahrenheit 451: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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A Study in Scarlet: In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London….
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Bleak House: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
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War and Peace: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Crow Road: It was the day my grandmother exploded.
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Slaughterhouse Five: All this happened, more or less.
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Swallows and Amazons: It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.
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The Hunger Games: When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
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Gravity’s Rainbow: A screaming comes across the sky.
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The Roundhouse: We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
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Brideshead Revisited: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
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Tender is the Night: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
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Catcher in the Rye: We slept in what had once been a gymnasium.
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Rebecca: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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The Hobbit: When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence…
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Back When We Were Grown Ups: Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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Jazz: 124 was spiteful.
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Girl at War: The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes.
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Everything I Never Told You: Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
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