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February Quiz

The February Quiz prize of £14.00 was won by Bella Peacock, whose entry was picked from the correct entries received.

Here are the answers to the book’s starting lines quiz; the matching book titles are in Bold. Note: The Catcher in the Rye was a ‘Red Herring’.

1. Call me Ishmail. = Moby Dick

2. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. = The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

3. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. = Nineteen Eighty-Four

4. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. = Pride and Prejudice

5. Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where we lay our scene). = Romeo and Juliet

6. It was a pleasure to burn. = Fahrenheit 451

7. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentlemen lived not long ago… = Don Quixote

8. Marley was dead: to begin with. = A Christmas Carol

9. You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. = The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. = The Old Man and the Sea.

11. Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realised it when caught by her charm. = Gone with the Wind

12. You better not never tell nobody but God. = The Color Purple

13. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again. = Rebecca

14. All children, except one, grow up. = Peter Pan

15. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times = A Tale of Two Cities

16. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much = Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

17. The great fish moved silently through the water, propelled by short sweeps of it’s crescent tail = Jaws

18. Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her = The Godfather

19. Far out in the unchartered backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun = The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

20. Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean =  Fantastic Mr Fox”

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