Can You Identify These Memorable Opening Lines?

Question

Below are the first lines of some fairly famous novels; extremely long first lines include only the very beginnings. Can you identify the novels and the authors? First one to get the most correct wins the 10 points! Good luck!

1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
2. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
3. "Call me Ishmael."
4. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."
5. "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..."
6. "3 May--Bistritz Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May..."
7. "One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman..."
8. "Howard Roark laughed."
9. "You like to have some cup of tea?"
10. "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

Answer 1

1: A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.
2: Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen.
3: Moby Dick - Herman Melville.
4: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
5: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce.
6: Dracula - Bram Stoker.
7: The Mayor Of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy.
8: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand.
9: July's People - Nadine Gordimer.
10: The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck.

Answer 2

1. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. Pride and Pejudice by Jane Austen
3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker
7. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
8. Anthem by Ayn Rand
9. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback

Answer 3

1. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. Pride and Pejudice by Jane Austen
3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker
7. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
8. Anthem by Ayn Rand
9. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback

Answer 4

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Moby Dick-Hermen Melville
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Mayor of CasterBridge - Thomas Hardy
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
July's People - Nadine Gordimer
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Answer 5

I might be totally wrong on some of these, so feel free to laugh, but I'll give it a go:
1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Moby Dick
...okay, you got me on the rest of them, so I'm gonna cheat from now on...
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6. Dracula
7. The Mayor of Casterbridge
8. The Fountainhead
9. July's People
10. The Grapes of Wrath

Answer 6

1) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2)Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3)Moby Dick by Herman Mellville
4)The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
6)Dracula by Bram Stoker
7)The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
8)The Fountainhead by Ann Rynd
9)Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
10)The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Answer 7

1. Tale of Two Cities-dickens
2. Pride and Prejudice-austin
3. moby dick--melville
4.Sun also Rises-Hemingway
5.Portrait of the Artist as a Young man-Joyce
6.dracula-stoker
7. the life and death of the mayor of casterbridge--hardy
8.the fountainhead-rand
9.July's People-gordimer
10 the grapes of wrath-steinbeck

Answer 8

1. A Tale of Two Cities
3. Moby Dick
5. Into the Woods?

Answer 9

#3 is from Moby Dick, I've heard of #1 but can't think of where it's from, #2 never heard of, #4 might have been Howard Cosell or Don King. #5 was from a Dr. Suess book, #6 - have no idea, #7 - no idea, #8 - no clue, #9 - from a James Bond Movie, #10 - no idea

Answer 10

2 is pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

3 is Moby Dick

no clue on the others.