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[madbaker]

BBC Quiz: How well read are you?

Thursday is World Book Day - so how well do you know famous opening lines?
Accountants spend an average of five hours a week reading - more than anybody else.

Secretaries came second, followed by MPs, journalists and taxi drivers. Members of the clergy were least likely to be found with a book

Test yourself with our quiz on the first lines of well-known books - and send us your suggestions for first lines of your own.

0-4: Like the clergy....... 5-7: Take a letter, Moneypenny....... 8-10: Number-crunching bookworm

I got 8 right. Guilty as charged.

Comments

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I got nine right. I guessed on two, so it's more like 'seven.'

Six for me

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

But most of them were guesses. I'm amused by them calling one American novel "a great American novel" but there were none listed as "a great British novel."

[seamoose.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm pitiful... I had only read 5 of the books, but I was able to guess correctly on 4 more. But I am NOT a number cruncher!

So much for quizes...

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I got 9 right. I'd only read The Great Gatspy (whose opening line was the one I got wrong), the FOTR, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I just was able to take intelligent guesses at the rest of them.

Reminds me of my High School Achievement tests. We had a crummy history department, and we never got past WWI. The Achievement test I took (do they still have these? --they were like the SAT) had a whole lot of bunch of questions--seemed like most of them--on post-WWII and Korean War American history, of which I knew *nothing*. So I was literaly picking answers based on "I haven't picked a C for a while" logic. I wound up getting incredibly high scores on this test! Too Funny! I hate standardized testing...

[farmount.livejournal.com]

I scored a 6. Not bad, considering I did not read many of the books listed. And yes, I did work as a secretary for a while... :)