First Lines From Our Bookshelf
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
What aptly named Jamaican sprinter has won 8 olympic gold medals and has held the 100m & 200m world records since 2009?
Usain Bolt
Guitar Hero III started off easy with “Rock and Roll All Nite” by what 1970’s glam rock band, fronted by Chaim Witz (Okay, we all probably know him better as Gene Simmons)?
KISS
Come sail away with ferryman Charon on what river of Greek mythology which forms the boundary of the Underworld?
Styx
The constellation known as the Great Bear and probably the only one you can identify is brought back to life 65 million years after extinction because life, uh, finds a way
Ursa Majurassic Park
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents!” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Little Women
Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were stripped of their olympic medals for performing the black power salute in 1968 in what world capital?
Mexico City
Guitar Hero loved comedy metal songs, featuring tracks by Tenacious D, Homestar Runner’s Strong Bad, and what mockumentary metal band that cranked it up to 11?
Spinal Tap
What jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead would weigh the hearts of the deceased against a feather to determine if they should enter the afterlife?
Anubis
The man in a 1986 Paul Simon hit is experiencing a midlife crisis after being referred to as “Curiously Strong Mints”, AKA Laurel’s achilles heel
You Can Call Me Altoids
It was a pleasure to burn.
Fahrenheit 451
Who was Blue Ribbon Sports first sponsored runner, “pre” the company rebranding to Nike, Inc.?
Steve Prefontaine
“La Grange” and “Sharp Dressed Man” were contributions from what rock band famous for their epic beards and almost certainly appearing last in your music library?
ZZ Top
Yggdrasil, the ash tree which connects the nine worlds is central to what family of mythology that's given Chris Hemsworth 10 jobs and counting?
Norse
The iconic number from the musical Chicago, or other such fragrant flowers that might bloom at night
All That Jasmine
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies ... an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What feat did Roger Bannister accomplish on May 6, 1954 that led him to be knighted and even recognized on the 50p coin?
The Four Minute Mile
What LA rock band, famous for protesting against capitalism and the Iraq war, oddly had no problem contributing songs like “Bulls on Parade” and “Killing in the Name” to Guitar Hero, even featuring their guitarist Tom Morello as an in-game boss?
Rage Against the Machine
The god Huitzilopochtli supposedly told the Mexica to build a city where they saw an eagle eating a snake. When they saw this site on Lake Texcoco, they built what Aztec capital city on the site of modern day Mexico City?
Tenochtitlan
The author known for vampire fiction spent lots of time in San Francisco, so we can only assume she consumed a lot of “The San Francisco Treat”
Anne Rice A Roni
Marley was dead: to begin with.
A Christmas Carol
What Kenyan marathoner won his first international gold medal at 18 and became the first man under two hours in the marathon at 34?
Eliud Kipchoge
Guitar Hero featured foundational punk music, such as “Holiday in Cambodia” by what band who’s name was a reference to brothers John Fitzgerald and Robert Francis?
Dead Kennedys
Stories from Akan folklore (modern day Ghana) feature what trickster with human and spider parts triumphing over rivals through cunning and wit?
Anansi
Four pizza loving renaissance painters trained in ninjutsu struggle with OCD in a John Green novel whose title alludes to an infinite number of supportive terrapins?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles All the Way Down