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Circulated at my sister's work-place, something to do with museum curation...
I think I got 2 (#37 and #39.) Shameful, I know.
The Museum Studies 2005 First Lines Quiz
(Search Engines are off limits)
1. If he had his way, Peter Mc Dermott thought, he would have fired the
chief house detective long ago
2. Like most people I lived a long time with my mother and father.
3. Turning over in bed, she was aware of a summons: Rouse yourself.
4. In Poland's deepest Autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat,
double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner
jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel swastika, emerged from a
fashionable apartment block in Straszewskiego Street on the edge of the
ancient centre of Cracow and saw his chauffeur waiting with fuming breath by
the open door of an enormous and, even in this blackened world, lustrous
Adler limousine.
5. 'If you want my opinion,' said Gwen Cellan-Davies, 'the old boy's a
terrifically distinguished citizen of Wales'.
6. The year began with lunch.
7. The book was thick and black and covered with dust.
8. I am, I discover, a very untidy man.
9. He left the carriage, ascended the short flight of steps and walked
briskly past the dozing porter sitting in the deep shade of the portico; a
small neat man, in dark, well cut city clothes and a glossy topper.
10. We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with
his stick.
11. If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea.
12. I awoke with foreboding. My hand closed in a reflex on the Luger under
the pillow.
13. "I don't like marriage, Mama."
14. In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked
ravishing.
15. Gillon lay in bed with her eyes closed.
16. From the window all that could be seen was a receding area of grey.
17. There, far below, is the knobbly backbone of England, the Pennine Range.
18. The kitchen was full of the smell of baking.
19. It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition
that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.
20. She came gliding along London's broadest street, and then halted,
swaying gently.
21. This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a
Man's resolution can achieve.
22. When the East wind blows up Helford River the shining waters become
troubled and disturbed, and the little waves beat angrily upon the sandy
shores.
23. The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzche has often
perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we
once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!
24. Somewhere near Venice, Guy began talking with a heavy, elderly man, a
refugee from Germany on his way to Trieste.
25. The storm, which for days had spun in great, looping gusts from the
Hatteras Cape, had worn itself out in the Carolina Low Country.
26. Nanda was on her way to the Convent of the Five Wounds.
27. When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go
on the coffin; so, as the hearse stood there in the narrow street, with the
two black horses drooping their heads under the leaden winter weather,
someone ran back into the house and brought out the cavalry sabre that hung
over the mantelpiece.
28. If you require a sententious opening, here it is.
29 The guard at Exeter warned him he would have to change at Dulverton to
pick up the westbound train to Bamfylde Bridge Halt, the nearest railhead to
the school, but did not add that the wait between trains was an hour.
30. As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the
blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of
astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr Cavor
was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident.
31. 'Yes,' said Tom bluntly, on opening the front door.
32. I was born in the City of Bombay... once upon a time.
33. What was he frightened of, she wondered, as he burrowed his knees into
her thighs and clutched at her through the cotton nightgown.
34. Hermione Staunton was nine when she realised she was in love with Sandy
Gordon-Lockhart, who was eleven, and though she wouldn't have used those
exact words to describe the feeling, she never forgot the moment.
35. The painting I stole for Imogen Linny, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam,
arrive to the Glace Museum, here in Halifax, on September 5, 1938
36. Wilson sat up very straight. This was he first letter she had ever
written in her life and she wished it to be correct in every particular.
37. On August 16, 1968, I was handed a book written by a certain Abbé
Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en français d'apres
l'édition de Dom J. Mabillon (Aux Presses de l'Abbaye de la Source, Paris,
1842).
38. The first time you see human blood in any quantity, it leaves an
impression on you.
39. Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients
had died or got any worse.
40. 2:17 Don't have to get up until, latest half twelve.
--
Gareth Owen
101-ism
: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects
of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
Circulated at my sister's work-place, something to do with museum curation...
I think I got 2 (#37 and #39.) Shameful, I know.
The Museum Studies 2005 First Lines Quiz
(Search Engines are off limits)
1. If he had his way, Peter Mc Dermott thought, he would have fired the
chief house detective long ago
2. Like most people I lived a long time with my mother and father.
3. Turning over in bed, she was aware of a summons: Rouse yourself.
4. In Poland's deepest Autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat,
double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner
jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel swastika, emerged from a
fashionable apartment block in Straszewskiego Street on the edge of the
ancient centre of Cracow and saw his chauffeur waiting with fuming breath by
the open door of an enormous and, even in this blackened world, lustrous
Adler limousine.
5. 'If you want my opinion,' said Gwen Cellan-Davies, 'the old boy's a
terrifically distinguished citizen of Wales'.
6. The year began with lunch.
7. The book was thick and black and covered with dust.
8. I am, I discover, a very untidy man.
9. He left the carriage, ascended the short flight of steps and walked
briskly past the dozing porter sitting in the deep shade of the portico; a
small neat man, in dark, well cut city clothes and a glossy topper.
10. We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with
his stick.
11. If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea.
12. I awoke with foreboding. My hand closed in a reflex on the Luger under
the pillow.
13. "I don't like marriage, Mama."
14. In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked
ravishing.
15. Gillon lay in bed with her eyes closed.
16. From the window all that could be seen was a receding area of grey.
17. There, far below, is the knobbly backbone of England, the Pennine Range.
18. The kitchen was full of the smell of baking.
19. It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition
that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.
20. She came gliding along London's broadest street, and then halted,
swaying gently.
21. This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a
Man's resolution can achieve.
22. When the East wind blows up Helford River the shining waters become
troubled and disturbed, and the little waves beat angrily upon the sandy
shores.
23. The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzche has often
perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we
once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!
24. Somewhere near Venice, Guy began talking with a heavy, elderly man, a
refugee from Germany on his way to Trieste.
25. The storm, which for days had spun in great, looping gusts from the
Hatteras Cape, had worn itself out in the Carolina Low Country.
26. Nanda was on her way to the Convent of the Five Wounds.
27. When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go
on the coffin; so, as the hearse stood there in the narrow street, with the
two black horses drooping their heads under the leaden winter weather,
someone ran back into the house and brought out the cavalry sabre that hung
over the mantelpiece.
28. If you require a sententious opening, here it is.
29 The guard at Exeter warned him he would have to change at Dulverton to
pick up the westbound train to Bamfylde Bridge Halt, the nearest railhead to
the school, but did not add that the wait between trains was an hour.
30. As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the
blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of
astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr Cavor
was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident.
31. 'Yes,' said Tom bluntly, on opening the front door.
32. I was born in the City of Bombay... once upon a time.
33. What was he frightened of, she wondered, as he burrowed his knees into
her thighs and clutched at her through the cotton nightgown.
34. Hermione Staunton was nine when she realised she was in love with Sandy
Gordon-Lockhart, who was eleven, and though she wouldn't have used those
exact words to describe the feeling, she never forgot the moment.
35. The painting I stole for Imogen Linny, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam,
arrive to the Glace Museum, here in Halifax, on September 5, 1938
36. Wilson sat up very straight. This was he first letter she had ever
written in her life and she wished it to be correct in every particular.
37. On August 16, 1968, I was handed a book written by a certain Abbé
Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en français d'apres
l'édition de Dom J. Mabillon (Aux Presses de l'Abbaye de la Source, Paris,
1842).
38. The first time you see human blood in any quantity, it leaves an
impression on you.
39. Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients
had died or got any worse.
40. 2:17 Don't have to get up until, latest half twelve.
--
Gareth Owen
101-ism
: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspectsof life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
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