How many of these famous first lines do you know?

This is a pop quiz. Sure, you can copy and paste these lines into a Google search or look at the answers at the bottom of the page. But you won’t will you?

1. In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
2. A screaming comes across the sky.
3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
4. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.
5. Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.
6. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
7. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
8. Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
9. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
10. We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
11. The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation.
12. Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
13. I was born in the city of Bombay…once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. The time matters, too.
14. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there’s a peephole in the door, and my keeper’s eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

–Malcolm