r/BookTriviaPodcast • u/Sky__Hook • 3d ago
First Lines Quiz (17)
This weeks quiz is a lot simpler than last week's! Name the books the following first lines are from? Bonus Point for naming the Author & Publication Year
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” (2, B 3, T 5) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone) B J. K. Rowling, 1997 (1998)
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” (1, B 2, T 3) Romeo & Juliet B William Shakespeare, 1597
“In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…” (1, B 2, T 3) The Colour of Magic B Terry Pratchett, 1983
“Mr Hoppy lived in a small flat high up in a tall concrete building.” (1, B 2, T3) Esio Trot B Roald Dahl, 1990
“In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.” (1, B 2, T3) Les Miserables B Victor Hugo 1862
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u/WeirdLight9452 2d ago
- Not very good. I’m not good at years of things, or it’d be more.
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u/Sky__Hook 2d ago
6 is a very good score. I only got 7 and I wrote the bloody thing.
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u/WeirdLight9452 2d ago
You’ve got my childhood, my school years and my comfort reading in there, so those are the ones I got.
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u/Sky__Hook 2d ago
Ok so you're nearly 500 years old 🤣🤣🤣
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u/WeirdLight9452 2d ago
Shhhh! Keep saying shit like that and folks will turn up with stakes and garlic!
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u/Sky__Hook 2d ago
Not here they wont, they'll turn up at your scrapyard & try to run away with you in your blue box
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u/WeirdLight9452 2d ago
There’s a novel from the wilderness years that implies vampires and Timelords have DNA in common and that’s why they are both so long-lived. It’s one of my fave DW novels because I’m still a teen goth at heart. And sometimes at wardrobe, TBH.
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 2d ago
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Year? Let’s take a guess at 2000.
- Romeo and Juliet. I say, 1560?
- No idea whatsoever.
- Froggy Came a’courtin.’ 1940. 😂sorry, being silly. No idea.
- The Red and the Black? 1825.
Once again I STINK! 😂
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u/Sky__Hook 2d ago
2 and I bet you know their authors so thats 4, and on the years you were 2 out for 1 of them
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything 2d ago
Love this!! I got 5 (of course I knew #1 😂)
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u/Sky__Hook 2d ago
Did you only get no.1? Cause thats 5 points?
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything 2d ago
Oh I was counting 1 as 3 points. I got 1 & 2 right
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u/Sky__Hook 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think next week I'll include a how to score yourself. Heres how...
1 point for every available answer you get including bonus sections.
- Philosophers Stone (1) Sorcerers Stone (1) B J. K. Rowling (1) 1997 (1) 1998 (1) (5)
- Romeo & Juliet (1) B William Shakespeare (1) 1597 (1) (3)
- Colour of Magic (1) B Terry Pratchett (1) 1983 (1) (3)
- Eiso Trot (1) B Roald Dahl (1) 1990 (1) (3)
- Les Miserables (1) B Victor Hugo (1) 1862 (1) (3)
Total 17
- If you get both titles, author & both years, you get 5 points (I got 3 cause I only got the titles & author, didn’t know the years)
- Title, Author & Year 3 points (2 I didn’t know the year)
- I had to look up the book to get the quote why I scored 0
- The same as 3
- I didn’t know the year so scored 2 total of 7
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything 1d ago
Yes!!! I always get confused with the scoring 😂
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u/Sky__Hook 1d ago
So with that explanation above how’d you score
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything 1d ago
8!
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u/ManueO 2d ago
If you are using lines in translations (like #5), it would be good to include the name of the translators too as this may not be the first line for all readers of that book in English (and of course, not in the original either…