First Lines
"Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood."
Percy Jackson
Author of "The Little Mermaid"
Who is Hans Christian Andersen?
The reason Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games ends up as tribute of District 12
What is Young Adult?
"Marley was dead, to begin with."
A Christmas Carol
Author of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, published in 1960
Who is Harper Lee?
The color of Dorothy's slippers in The Wizard of Oz
(hint- this is the BOOK not the movie)
What is silver?
George Orwell's Animal Farm is an allegory for...
What is corruption, Russian Revolution, totalitarianism?
(Any of these will work)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
What is Pride and Prejudice?
The author of the character of Quasimodo
Who is Victor Hugo?
The original title of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly
What is The Modern Prometheus?
The last play Oscar Wilde (Victorian playwright) wrote
What is The Importance of Being Earnest? (not-so-fun fact: the reason for this is because, after this, he was sent to jail for being gay)
"It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful."
Matilda
Victorian writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne were sisters sharing this last name
What is Brontë?
The name of the militia officer who elopes with Lydia Bennet from Pride and Prejudice
Who is Mr. Wickham?
What is Guinness Book of World Records?
"In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound."
"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor."
What is Don Quixote?
William Golding's inspiration for Lord of the Flies (1954)
What is working with unruly schoolboys and his time in the Royal Navy during WWII?
The translation for the Hogwarts school motto in the book Harry Potter (Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus)
What is Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon?
The meaning of the term "DNF" in the book community? (ex: I'm DNFing this book because...)
What is Did Not Finish?