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Quiz about Opening Lines of SciFi Classics
Quiz about Opening Lines of SciFi Classics

Opening Lines of Sci-Fi Classics Quiz


How quickly can you recognize a classic? You are given the opening line of a famous work of science fiction, and then are required to answer which book it is from.

A multiple-choice quiz by foulweather. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
foulweather
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
225,226
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
655
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which sci-fi novel begins: "'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets." Which novel is this from? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "'I always get the shakes before a drop.'" This is the opening line from which classic? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination." Which award-winning novel is this from? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which dystopian classic begins with: "A squat, grey building of only thirty-four stories."? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before." This line introduces which sci-fi classic? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended." This is the opening line from what novel? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What classic novel begins with: "Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that novice's Lenten fast in the desert."? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." This is the first line of what award-winning sci-fi novel? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "Sooner or later, it was bound to happen." Which sci-fi classic begins with this ominous line? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which sci-fi novel begins: "'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'"?

Answer: "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card

Card won the 1986 Hugo Award for "Ender's Game," and also won it the next year for its sequel, "Speaker for the Dead."
2. "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets." Which novel is this from?

Answer: "The Martian Chronicles," by Ray Bradbury

This opening line from the first vignette "Rocket Summer" describes an American landscape before the intrusion by the light and heat from a rocket launch to Mars.
3. "'I always get the shakes before a drop.'" This is the opening line from which classic?

Answer: "Starship Troopers," by Robert A. Heinlein

Heinlein has won four Hugo Awards: "Double Star" (1956), "Starship Troopers" (1960), "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1962), and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (1967).
4. "I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination." Which award-winning novel is this from?

Answer: "The Left Hand of Darkness," by Ursula K. LeGuin

Winner of the 1969 Nebula Award and the 1970 Hugo Award.
5. Which dystopian classic begins with: "A squat, grey building of only thirty-four stories."?

Answer: "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley

The opening sections of the novel describe a student-group tour of this 'squat, grey building,' which happens to be the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. People are hatched here, of course, not fish.
6. "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before." This line introduces which sci-fi classic?

Answer: "Foundation," by Isaac Asimov

Gaal Dornick traveled to the Imperial capital of Trantor for an interview with famous psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the architect of the Foundation.
7. "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended." This is the opening line from what novel?

Answer: "2001," by Arthur C. Clarke

The first part of this classic novel describes the influence of a monolith on Earth's prehistorical ape ancestors.
8. What classic novel begins with: "Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that novice's Lenten fast in the desert."?

Answer: "A Canticle for Leibowitz," by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

This post-apocalyptic classic, which tells the story of civilized humanity's rise and fall after a nuclear holocaust, was the winner of the 1961 Hugo Award.
9. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." This is the first line of what award-winning sci-fi novel?

Answer: "Neuromancer," by William Gibson

This cyberpunk novel won the 1984 Nebula and the 1985 Hugo Award.
10. "Sooner or later, it was bound to happen." Which sci-fi classic begins with this ominous line?

Answer: "Rendezvous with Rama," by Arthur C. Clarke

Winner of the 1973 Nebula and 1974 Hugo Awards, this classic spawned three more sequels: "Rama II," "The Garden of Rama," and "Rama Revealed."
Source: Author foulweather

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