LITERATURE QUIZ NO. 24 FIRST LINES FROM BOOKS

[magpie in the 80's]

1 Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.
THE MIRROR CRACK'D
2 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again.
REBECCA
3 I was leaning against a bar in a speak-easy 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.
THE THIN MAN
4 It was not surprising that Sylvia Raffray, on that Saturday in September, had occasion for discourse with various men, none of them utterly ordinary, and with one remarkable young woman; it was not surprising that all this happened without any special effort on Sylvia's part, for she was rich, personable to an extreme, an orphan, and six months short of twenty-one years.
THE HAND IN THE GLOVE
5 It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
THE BIG SLEEP
6 Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
THE HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES
7 Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.
THE MALTESE FALCON
8 "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
CHARLOTTES WEB
9 When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
THE SECRET GARDEN
10 "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
LITTLE WOMEN
11 Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
12 For many days we had been tempest-tossed.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
13 The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
BLACK BEAUTY
14 There was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself - not just sometimes, but always.
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
15 I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.
KIDNAPPED
16 Mathias cut a comical figure as he hobbled his way along the cloisters, with his large sandals flip-flopping and his tail peeping from beneath the baggy folds of an oversized novice's habit.
RED WALL
17 "Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.
LITTLE MEN
18 Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity --- Good.
BRIDGE TO TERABITHA
19 These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
20 It was not that Omri didn't appreciate Patrick's birthday present to him.
THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD

[JAS]

Q2 Rebbeca...Daphne Du Maurier
Q10 Little Women...Louisa May Alcott
Q19 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...Roald Dahl

Regards
JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

Q2 Rebbeca...Daphne Du Maurier
Q10 Little Women...Louisa May Alcott
Q19 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...Roald Dahl

Regards
JAS

CORRECT JAS

[Ingall]

11 - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

[panthergurl]

1. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
6. The Hound of Baskervilles

[magpie in the 80's]

11 - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

CORRECT INGALL

[magpie in the 80's]

1. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
6. The Hound of Baskervilles

CORRECT PG

[Turkeywizz]

8 is Charlotte's Web
9 is The Secret Garden

[magpie in the 80's]

8 is Charlotte's Web
9 is The Secret Garden

correct TW

[magpie in the 80's]

where are all the readers. still 12 Q's to go here

[magpie in the 80's]

LAST DAYS FOR THIS QUIZ

[magpie in the 80's]

1 Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.
THE MIRROR CRACK'D
2 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again.
REBECCA
3 I was leaning against a bar in a speak-easy 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.
THE THIN MAN
4 It was not surprising that Sylvia Raffray, on that Saturday in September, had occasion for discourse with various men, none of them utterly ordinary, and with one remarkable young woman; it was not surprising that all this happened without any special effort on Sylvia's part, for she was rich, personable to an extreme, an orphan, and six months short of twenty-one years.
THE HAND IN THE GLOVE
5 It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
THE BIG SLEEP
6 Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
THE HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES
7 Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.
THE MALTESE FALCON
8 "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
CHARLOTTES WEB
9 When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
THE SECRET GARDEN
10 "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
LITTLE WOMEN
11 Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
12 For many days we had been tempest-tossed.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
13 The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
BLACK BEAUTY
14 There was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself - not just sometimes, but always.
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
15 I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.
KIDNAPPED
16 Mathias cut a comical figure as he hobbled his way along the cloisters, with his large sandals flip-flopping and his tail peeping from beneath the baggy folds of an oversized novice's habit.
RED WALL
17 "Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.
LITTLE MEN
18 Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity --- Good.
BRIDGE TO TERABITHA
19 These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
20 It was not that Omri didn't appreciate Patrick's birthday present to him.
THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED.
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE.

END OF QUIZ