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Heinlein First Lines

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Heinlein First Lines game quiz
"Can you say which of Heinlein's books they are, given the first line? (Where the book was retitled for the UK market, both titles are given)"

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1. Which Heinlein novel opens with this line? - "I know a place where there is no smog and no parking problem and no population explosion... no Cold War and no H-bombs and no television commercials... no Summit Conferences, no Foreign Aid, no hidden taxes - no income tax."?
    Time Enough for Love
    Glory Road
    For Us, The Living
    To Sail Beyond the Sunset


2. "If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owned the place, he's a spaceman."
Which Heinlein novel is this the opening line to?
    Double Star
    Between Planets
    Starman Jones
    Podkayne of Mars


3. Which of Robert Heinlein's novels opens with the line "The fire pit was about twenty five feet long by ten feet wide, and perhaps two feet deep."?
    The Menace From Earth
    Job: A Comedy of Justice
    Red Planet
    Orphans of the Sky


4. "The two brothers stood looking the old wreck over. 'Junk', decided Castor." This is the first line of which Heinlein novel?
    Rocket Ship Galileo
    Space Family Stone/The Rolling Stones
    Have Spacesuit Will Travel
    Podkayne of Mars


5. Which Heinlein novel begins with the line "According to their biographies, Destiny's favoured children usually had their lives planned out from scratch."?
    Time for the Stars
    Podkayne of Mars
    Between Planets
    Citizen of the Galaxy


6. "'Look Out!' The cry broke involuntarily from Perry Nelson's lips as he twisted the steering wheel."
Which of Heinlein's novels is this the first line to?
    Rocket Ship Galileo
    The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
    Space Cadet
    For Us, the Living


7. "'Lot ninety-seven,' the auctioneer announced. 'A boy.'"
This line begins which novel by Robert Heinlein?
    The Puppet Masters
    Podkayne of Mars
    Citizen of the Galaxy
    I Will Fear no Evil


8. Which of Heinlein's novels begins "'Everybody all set?' Young Ross Jenkins glanced nervously at his two chums."?
    Star Beast
    Time for the Stars
    Rocket Ship Galileo
    Have Space Suit Will Travel


9. "The bulletin board outside lecture hall 1712-A of Patrick Henry High School showed a flashing red light." Which novel by Robert Heinlein begins thus?
    Tunnel in the Sky
    Space Cadet
    Starship Troopers
    Podkayne of Mars


10. Which novel by Heinlein begins with the following line? - "One winter shortly before the Six Weeks War, my tomcat, Petronius the Arbiter and I lived in an old farmhouse in Connecticut."
    Farnham's Freehold
    The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
    The Door Into Summer
    Starman Jones

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