FIRST LINES QUIZ!

As you'd expect, from such an erudite and educated person of taste and breeding as myself, I have bookcases (with books) and some of them are fairly well known. So here's a quiz, of first lines of books culled from my bookshelves...

See how you get on without Googling.

1. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
1984, George Orwell, Jim Bliss
2. What's it going to be then, eh?
A clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Jim Bliss
3. Sophie Amundsen was on her way home from school. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder, Larry T
   
4. When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien, Jim Bliss
5. .Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it's outer walls. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake, Larry T.
   
6. We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
7. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson, Jim Bliss
8. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Jane Ayre, Charlotte Bronte, Larry T.
   
9. All this happened, more or less. Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt vonnegut, Jim Bliss
10. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Jim Bliss
11. Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
12. It was a pleasure to burn.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, Jim Bliss
13. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Jim Bliss
14. My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
15. It was 7 minutes after midnight.
16. The house was named "The Cave"
17. I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. Cider With Rosia, Laurie Lee, Brenda
18. The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham, Jim Bliss
19. "They made a silly mistake, though" the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.
20. The Primroses were over.
21. It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, Jim Bliss
22. I am a large man, with big butcher's hands, great oak thighs, rock-jawed head, and massive, thick-lens glasses. The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart, Jim Bliss
23. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Lord of the Flies, William Golding, Jim BLiss
24. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down the road and this moocow that was coming down the road met a nicens little boy called baby tuckoo
25. For a week Mr R Childan had been anxiously watching the mail. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick, Jim Bliss