First Line Quiz--Multiple Choice

On Friday I gave a list of twenty great first lines from several of my favorite novels (and one short story--I cheated). Keep track of your original guesses as more points will be awarded for unassisted correct answers.

Here again are the first lines:

1. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
   
2. Sooner or later, it was bound to happen.
   
3. My wife, Utchka (whose name I some time ago shortened to Utch), could teach patience to a time bomb.
   
4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
   
5. The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.
   
6. What's it going to be then, eh?
   
7. All this happened, more or less.
   
8. Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
   
9. It was love at first sight.
   
10. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
    
11. --Totally naked, for God’s sake?
    
12. They’re out there.
    
13. She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.
    
14. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
    
15. My father lost me to The Beast at cards.
    
16. Call me Ishmael.
    
17. All nights should be so dark, all winter’s so warm, all headlights so dazzling.
    
18. This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
    
19. In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
    
20. Mother died today.

Now, here is a list of book titles to help you out.  (Note that not all titles are used.):

• The 158-Pound Marriage
  
• All the Pretty Horses
  
• The Black Dahlia
  
• Catch 22
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
  
• The End of the Road
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  
• Gerald’s Party
  
• Gorky Park
  
• Grendel
  
  
• The Hobbit
  
• M/F
  
• Moby Dick
  
• Motherless Brooklyn
  
• Neuromancer
  
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
  
• Portnoy's Complaint
  
• The Princess Bride
  
• Rendezvous With Rama
  
  
• A Scanner Darkly
  
• The Shadow of the Torturer
  
• Slaughter-House Five
  
• The Stranger
  
• The Tiger Bride

Next, here is a list of authors:

• Barth, John
  
• Boyle, T. C.
  
• Burgess, Anthony
  
• Camus, Albert
  
• Carter, Angela
  
  
• Clarke, Arthur C.
  
• Coover, Robert
  
• Dick, Philip K.
  
• Ellroy, James
  
• Gardner, John
  
  
• Gibson, William
  
• Goldman, William
  
• Heller, Joseph
  
• Irving, John
  
• Kesey, Ken
  
  
• Letham, Jonathan
  
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
  
• McCarthy, Cormac
  
• Melville, Herman
  
• Roth, Philip
  
  
• Smith, Martin Cruz
  
• Thompson, Hunter S.
  
• Tolkien, J. R. R.
  
• Vonnegut, Kurt
  
• Wolfe, Gene

Now see how well you do matching first lines with the correct titles and authors.  (Remember: not all titles and authors will be needed.)
 
I'll give the solution and scoring system later this week.  Good luck.