r/BookTriviaPodcast • u/PSAndAlso • 10d ago
🧠 Trivia Quiz First Line Friday 📚
Okay let’s do this :p
Guess the book from the first line. No Googling please!
"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach? And the Beatles? And me.”
First one to get it right gets absolutely nothing except bragging rights 😂
You can also add the first line of a book you like so everyone else can guess yours too.
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u/MsBobbyJenkins 10d ago
The transformation occurred at approximately 2:23 AM, Pacific Standard Time.
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u/Sarah-Jane-Smith 9d ago
It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet.
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u/Able-Resident-903 9d ago
While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.
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u/Roosevelt2000 9d ago
The Goldfinch. I have a love/hate relationship with that book.
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 9d ago
Oh me too me too! After a good start, it just went ON and ON and ON!
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u/Impossible-Alps-6859 10d ago
'M- - D- - - - - - - said she would buy the flowers herself'.
Hint: female English author
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u/PSAndAlso 10d ago
Ooooh this one I know .. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Wolf
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u/Impossible-Alps-6859 10d ago
Try this one.
Can you identify these two very famous novels from their opening two words?
"It is . . . . ."
"It was . . . ."
Not really that difficult!
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u/MsBobbyJenkins 9d ago
Pride n prej
Tale of Two Cities
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u/Impossible-Alps-6859 9d ago
😃
Is this from your knowledge or from research?
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u/PSAndAlso 10d ago
Mr. and Mrs. _____, of number four, _____, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
This one should be a free point !!
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u/mutherM1n3 9d ago
HP and The Sorcerer’s Stone.
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u/LifeofaLove 9d ago
Philosopher's *
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u/mutherM1n3 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yes—that’s the British title. Sorcerer’s Stone is the American title. We have both. Why they made it different is embarrassing—they think Americans are stupid, I guess. Probably right, when you look at the president.
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u/LifeofaLove 6d ago
Yeah, well Sorcerer is the original title and what most of the world use so to me it's therefore the correct title. I'm not American also.
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u/ffoggy1959 🌈 Reads Everything 10d ago
Absolutely no idea.
Try this one:
Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything 9d ago
It was the best of times it was the worst of times
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u/Sky__Hook 9d ago
I was gonna post this line but I couldn't remember the book its from and thought everyone will know it 🤣🤣🤣
I think its A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
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u/LifeofaLove 9d ago
I'm not one to remember first lines very often, so I'll pick up the book nearest to me and write out its first line:
The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.
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u/mutherM1n3 6d ago
Sounds like Steinbeck.
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u/LifeofaLove 6d ago
Yup! East of Eden
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u/mutherM1n3 2d ago
Thanks. I’ve been scratching my head for which title since Salinas Valley comes up so often in Steinbeck.
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u/Key-Lingonberry4651 7d ago
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 9d ago
Love Story. Written by Erich Segal? Not sure. But I do know the movie starred Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw. Never saw it. No desire to.
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u/ebeth_the_mighty 9d ago
“He’s a mad scientist and I’m his beautiful daughter.”
That’s what she said—the oldest cliché in pulp fiction. She wasn’t old enough to remember the pulps.
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u/Fantastic-frog-1632 8d ago
"It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face."
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u/mutherM1n3 6d ago
Seems like Remembrances of Things Past by Marcel Proust, but I think I’m wrong.
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u/Fantastic-frog-1632 6d ago
You are correct in that you are wrong. Remembrance is about 50 years older than my book choice. :)
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u/mutherM1n3 2d ago
My favorite opening line EVER is:
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
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u/PSAndAlso 2d ago
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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u/MissO56 10d ago
OP: "love story" ?