Moby Dick was wrote in the mid 19th century by Herman Melville. During those times the word "dick" was not seen as vulgar or a word used to describe the male genitalia. Thus the name for the Whale...
This may be a trick question. The very famous first line of Chapter 1 is "Call me Ishmael." But Melville wrote two chapters that come before that--the first is called "Etymology" and the second is...