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One Sentence Only - Novels by Jonathan

Description

This quiz is comprised of the opening sentence from Novels or Series of Novels that I Particularly Enjoy. Each Answer must contain the Title of the book or Series, and the Author. None of these are obscure - like some of the 1DSs that are being served up on Learned League - but include some classics and some 20th and 21st century work.

Instructions

Answer the questions below to the best of your ability without using outside resources. Outside references include (but certainly are not limited to) searching for an answer on the internet, looking at maps, using a calculator, or asking a friend (or foe) if they know the answer. Basically, you are relying on your brain (and maybe a pencil and paper).

For each correct answer, you will receive 15 points. You must also mark 6 questions as "money" questions. For each money question that you answer correctly, you will receive bonus points equal to the percent of players who answered incorrectly. (That is, if 25% of players got a question right, its money bonus would be worth 75 points.) You still don't get any points for a wrong answer, though, so try to select the hardest questions you think you have answered correctly. (Note: You can't use outside resources to help pick your money questions either.)

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Questions

Question 1

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.


Question 2

The music room in the Governor’s House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli’s C major quartet.


Question 3

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.


Question 4

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.


Question 5

Blandings Castle slept in the sunshine.


Question 6

Mma. Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill.


Question 7

The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.


Question 8

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.


Question 9

THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.


Question 10

The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp.


Question 11

14. It was a vast, shining globe and it cast a light of lambent topaz into space-but it was not a sun.


Question 12

“Christmas won’t be Christmas without Presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.


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