Well I really have nothing but "blog block" going on with me ~ I have tried finding something of interst to post about and have come up completely blank. So I decided ivillage.com provided me with some good "sex quizzes / letters" in previous post, that I'd go see if they had anything of interest to blog.
I found some really interesting quizzes on there and figured I'd test everyone's brain. This is "First Line" quizzes. See how you do ~
1. “All children, except one, grow up.”
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
3. “’Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
4. “The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.”
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Jaws by Peter Benchley
5. “It was a pleasure to burn.”
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
6. “When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. “Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
8. “A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed 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 wi
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. “Not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine.”
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Cujo by Stephen King
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
10. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but..."
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
I'll be looking for your answers and I'll post the answers in a day or so giving everyone a chance that is interested in testing their brain!!!
Have a great weekend!!!
MY HUSBAND'S SAYS I NEVER LISTEN TO HIM ~ AT LEAST I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE SAID
1. Peter Pan
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Little Women
4. Jaws
5. Farenheit 451
6. Secret Garden
7. Christmas Carol
8. Scarlet Letter (I'd guess)
9. Cujo (Does ANYONE else write about Maine??)
10. Catcher in the Rye (I hope. Does Tim Robbins HAVE an autobiography??)
This was kewl! Do it again! lol
1.Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
2.no idea
3.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4.Jaws by Peter Benchley ?
5.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6.The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
7.A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
8.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
9.Cujo by Stephen King ?
10. not a clue
and yes, I was trying to do them without looking above...some I knew right off the top of my head, most I guessed at, and some, well, no idea at all! *s*
Dear Jamie, I am too embarressed to try. I believe there are about four that I could have made educated guesses at, but I will refrain.
I suppose it will come as no surprise to you that English Literature was the popular fail in my last year at high school. And without shame, let's say in that respect I graduated amongst the 'populars'!
I'll leave you with one....quite easy actually.
"Yon Cassius has a mean and hungry look."
...that *was* fun...got the same as buffy and redeagle except for number 8 [although I could have worked it out by a process of elimination - honest :^)]...it was interesting to see how many 'first lines' I recognised...thank you :^)..
You and your stinkin' quizzes!
1. Peter Pan
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Little Women
4. Moby Dick
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. The Secret Garden
7. A Christmas Carol
8. The Scarlet Letter
9. Cujo (same reasoning as Buffy)
10. Tim Robbins
Dr. D......Julius Caesar by the Bard of Avon...
Act 1, scene 2.
Correct Buffy!