First Lines of Literature
"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?
Geraldine Connolly recalls swimming pools & dancing in "The Summer I Was" this age at which you can get your driver's license
What is 16?
In this play this character has the first line: "When shall we three meet again?"
What is the first witch?
This is the number of tales the book has.
What is 11?
Giving up your seat to the lady proves that this medieval system is not dead.
What is chivalry?
"Samuel Spade's jaw was long & bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth"
What is The Maltese Falcon?
Capulet, her father, says this Shakespeare heroine "hath not seen the change of fourteen years"
Who is Juliet?
The signs are all there; it means to submit, but Macbeth says, "I will not" do this "to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet"
What is yield?
This four letter fruit is used in Old Mrs J and Fruit Juice which is a bird species in New Zealand.
What is kiwi?
Part of a house that has its own professional sweep.
What is chimney?
From the 19th century: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
What is Anna Karenina?
In John Dryden's "Sylvia the Fair (In the Bloom of Fifteen)", Sylvia meets this mythological love god
Who is Cupid?
When we first meet this character, she reads a letter from her husband about his supernatural experience with 3 weirdos
Who is Lady Macbeth?
In “The Man Who Sold Braces”, the narrator’s this, the caretaker of The Museum of Torture has died.
What is uncle? / Who is his uncle?
In the Army today no one outranks General George W. Casey Jr., because he's this
What is Chief of Staff?
Walter Mosley's first novel: "I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy's bar"
What is Devil in the Blue Dress?
Lisel Mueller's "For a Thirteenth Birthday" begins, "You have read" this Tolstoy epic.
What is War and Peace?
This Scottish king was a rival of the real-life Macbeth & did have a son named Malcolm.
Who is Duncan?
In “The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger”, this accident happened when the wife of the doctor having an affair in “Lab Coats” is on her way to confront the secretary.
What is a tomato truck accident?
You can "pet" this Southwestern plant, Salvia columbariae.
What is chia?
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in... for others they sail forever"
What is Their Eyes that Were Watching God?
Don Juan, the teenage hero of a poem by this British lord, is "tall, handsome, slender, but well knit"
Who is Lord Byron?
Act IV of "Macbeth" has all 3 witches say these 5 words that precede "fire burn, & cauldron bubble"
What is double, double toil, and trouble.
Yoko Ogawa was born on this year which the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.
What is 1962?
Deception or trickery
What is chicanery?