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Can You Guess The Classic Novel From Its First Sentence? (Buzzfeed Quiz)
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Yea..Thanks for the quiz MK..it was fun..
Yes, it helps to be a good test taker!
I got 11 out of 17 - not bad but not great.
10/17, mostly by process of elimination and by guessing. I need to read more of these!
13 out of 17, and I think I learned a handful of them in the last few years. Thank you Catching up on Classics group!
10 out of 17. I'm happy because I still have so much more reading to do.
10 out of 17Lots of books from the quiz are on my tbr shelf...
8 out of 17 Even got some of the ones I had read one. I don't tend to remember the first line of a book unless it is famous like Pride and Prejudice. I also got the Virginia Woolf one right as I read that very recently. The rest were guesses!
14/17. For most of these, I either haven't read the books, or it was so long ago I'd have no recollection of their first sentences, or the first sentences are so famous they're hard to not know ((view spoiler)) so all this really shows is that my guessing skills from standardized test days are still working!
13/17 -- was doing all right until I missed the last four. But as others have said, the "Multiple guess" format helped a little.
I'm wondering if Buzzfeed deigned to tell us what a median score is, and what an above-average score would be?
12/17. Not bad, considering I haven't read even a dozen of the titles to choose from!
12 out of 17; but I only remembered the one about the summer the Rosenbergs were electrocuted😀
15/17 :D . Of the ones i got right i'd read 6 and i think i heard a couple more on quizs . Some good guesswork for the rest :) .
Edit: Only guessed wrong on the Rosenbergs and Happy Families. The Happy Families one's annoying as i'm sure i heard that before but still got it wrong.
10 out of 17. I got out of my depth towards the end, lol.
10 out of 17 for me too. I actually missed The Great Gatsby which I read just a few years ago. Arrgh.
Process of elimination ,in many case. :)
.from what you have read about the books..