The First Line Quiz

"The sorcerer Olt was dead."

"Dale's biggest brother Sean is walking along the high escarpment holding an egg carton."

"It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind."

"Sometime during your life - in fact, very soon - you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains."

"The tired old carriage, pulled by two tired old horses, rumbled onto the wharf, its creaky wheels bumbety-bumping on the uneven planks, waking Peter from his restless slumber."

"It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers."

"Something hit Ben Wilson and he opened his eyes."

"One morning the people of Rin woke to find that the stream that flowed down the Mountain and through their village had slowd to a trickle."

"I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air."

"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy."

"Sophie couldn't sleep."

"Was she going insane?"

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."