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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
“Call me Ishmael” of Moby Dick fame was voted the best first line of a novel by the American Book Review in 2006. It didn’t make this quiz, though. Try to match the first line to the novel it kicked off. Will it be the best of times (100%) or the worst (0%)? Don’t forget to report your score.
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Comments (8)
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In The Magazine
Good one! I got 80%. I didn’t know The Good Soldier, Phantom Tollbooth, or Crow Road.
posted by Trevor on 11-2-2007 at 8:52 am
Sadly, I got 100% on the movie one, and only 40% on this. Must get to the library more!
posted by L on 11-2-2007 at 9:44 am
I agree L….it’s sad that there can be such a disparancy from one medium to another. I got 53%….Some I knew right off the top of my head like The Color Purple, Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice. Some I could logically figure out, but others were just plain total guesses. I really should read more.
posted by Matt on 11-2-2007 at 9:54 am
Well - I got the four I got right, I knew for sure. I got the rest completely wrong, though!
posted by Erin on 11-2-2007 at 11:26 am
3/15
Phantom Tollbooth and Catcher in the Rye I knew; Go Tell It On The Mountain was a lucky guess.
…everything else was an unlucky guess.
posted by sporkk on 11-3-2007 at 11:31 am
13/15 for me… but that’s probably because I’ve actually read the thirteen I got right. I had a 50/50 chance at Middle Passage and The Good Soldier, but I made the wrong guess. Oh, well.
posted by Eva on 11-15-2007 at 9:47 pm
13/15
Same results as Eva.
Same reason.
posted by Dennis M on 11-16-2007 at 6:30 am
6/15. This was hard
posted by harold on 11-16-2007 at 10:59 am