The Opening Lines quiz

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"I am an invisible man."

"124 was spiteful."

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stair head, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay across."

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were percectly normal, thank you very much."

"It was love at first sight."

"On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters Peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl."

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer the electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

"It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that had been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."