Famous First Lines Quiz Question Title * 1. "Just three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago today Parisians woke to the sound of all the bells pealing out within the triple precinct of City, University, and Town." Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris (A.K.A The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin OK Question Title * 2. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World George Orwell, 1984 T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Jack London, The Iron Heel OK Question Title * 3. "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man Ben Jonson, Volpone, or the Fox William Shakespeare, Macbeth OK Question Title * 4. "The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten." Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov George McDonald, At the Back of the North Wind OK Question Title * 5. "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre OK Question Title * 6. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' " Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men OK Question Title * 7. "The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up." C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill J.R.R. Tolkien, Mr. Bliss Charles Williams, The Greater Trumps OK Question Title * 8. "A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes." Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: A Romance Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe OK DONE