Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1869) - Quiz
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • 1. Who is the main character in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
A) Captain Hook
B) Captain Nemo
C) Ned Land
D) Professor Aronnax
  • 2. What is the name of the submarine in the novel?
A) Scorpion
B) Nautilus
C) Seahawk
D) Thunderbird
  • 3. In which ocean does most of the story take place?
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Arctic Ocean
C) Pacific Ocean
D) Indian Ocean
  • 4. What is Captain Nemo's real name?
A) King Solomon
B) Lord Nelson
C) Prince Dakkar
D) Captain Smith
  • 5. What is the nationality of Professor Aronnax, one of the main characters?
A) Spanish
B) Russian
C) French
D) English
  • 6. What did Captain Nemo use to create electricity for the Nautilus?
A) Wind
B) Oil
C) Sodium
D) Coal
  • 7. Who is the harpooner that is part of the Nautilus crew?
A) Ishmael
B) Ahab
C) Ned Land
D) Queequeg
  • 8. Who is the author of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
A) Jules Verne
B) H.G. Wells
C) Mark Twain
D) Charles Dickens
  • 9. In which periodical was 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' originally serialized?
A) Le Figaro
B) Magasin d'éducation et de récréation
C) Le Monde Illustré
D) La Revue des Deux Mondes
  • 10. Who illustrated the deluxe octavo edition of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' published in November 1871?
A) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin
B) Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
C) Gustave Doré and Jules Cheret
D) Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet
  • 11. What is the full name of the French marine biologist who serves as the narrator in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Professor Jean Verne
B) Professor Louis Pasteur
C) Professor Jacques Cousteau
D) Professor Pierre Aronnax
  • 12. What year did ships of various nationalities first sight the mysterious sea monster in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) 1866
B) 1880
C) 1850
D) 1875
  • 13. Which U.S. Navy frigate do Aronnax, Land, and Conseil board to hunt the sea monster?
A) USS Monitor
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) USS Enterprise
D) USS Constitution
  • 14. What happens to the frigate Abraham Lincoln after attacking the sea monster in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) It returns safely
B) It captures the monster
C) Its rudder is damaged
D) It sinks immediately
  • 15. Which translation used the 1871 Christian Chelebourg edition as its basis?
A) The 2000 Project Gutenberg translation
B) The 2017 Penguin Classics edition translated by David Coward
C) The 1966 Washington Square Press edition
D) The 1993 Naval Institute Press edition
  • 16. What type of vessel is speculated to be the mysterious sea monster in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) A massive whale
B) A colossal squid
C) A giant octopus
D) A gigantic narwhal
  • 17. What is the name of the dangerous whirlpool that Aronnax and his companions encounter during their escape in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Moskstraumen (Maelstrom)
B) Scylla
C) Aegean whirlpool
D) Charybdis
  • 18. What is the nationality of Ned Land, the harpooner in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) American
B) Canadian
C) British
D) French
  • 19. What is the name of the French submarine that inspired Verne's depiction of Nautilus?
A) Plongeur
B) Nautilus
C) Leviathan
D) Poseidon
  • 20. What does Captain Nemo do to the warship from his homeland in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Captures it
B) Negotiates with it
C) Escapes from it
D) Rams it below its waterline and sinks it
  • 21. How many illustrations did David Coward's 2017 translation include?
A) No illustrations
B) 100 illustrations
C) 42 illustrations
D) 20 illustrations
  • 22. What term did Malaurie Guillaume use to describe Nemo in 2023?
A) Technological pioneer
B) First figure of ecological radicalism
C) Visionary scientist
D) Underwater explorer
  • 23. Who was responsible for the first English translation of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) David Coward
B) Reverend Lewis Page Mercier
C) Anthony Bonner
D) Walter James Miller
  • 24. What motivates Captain Nemo's self-imposed exile in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) To become the ruler of the seas
B) A quest for scientific knowledge and a desire to escape terrestrial civilization
C) To conquer new lands
D) To find treasure and riches
  • 25. Who is the captain of the frigate Abraham Lincoln in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Captain Hook
B) Admiral Farragut
C) Captain Ahab
D) Captain Nemo
  • 26. Which French oceanographer is repeatedly mentioned in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Jean-Baptiste Charcot
B) Jacques Cousteau
C) Matthew Fontaine Maury
D) Louis Antoine de Bougainville
  • 27. Which legendary underwater realm do the characters visit in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) El Dorado
B) Atlantis
C) Camelot
D) Shangri-La
  • 28. Who criticized 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' in 1961?
A) Mercier
B) Jules Verne
C) Malaurie Guillaume
D) Theodore L. Thomas
  • 29. According to the 1993 translation notes, whose responsibility were the errors noted by Thomas?
A) Malaurie Guillaume
B) Mercier's translation
C) Theodore L. Thomas
D) Jules Verne's original text
  • 30. Who collaborated with Frederick Paul Walter to produce 'The Completely Restored and Annotated Edition'?
A) William Butcher
B) Walter James Miller
C) David Coward
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 31. What does Captain Nemo use to power his submarine, Nautilus, in 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'?
A) Steam
B) Solar energy
C) Wind
D) Electricity
  • 32. In 2023, who presented Nemo as the first eco-terrorist?
A) Jules Verne
B) Malaurie Guillaume
C) Theodore L. Thomas
D) Mercier
  • 33. Which translation of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' included an introduction by Ray Bradbury?
A) The 1976 Thomas Y. Crowel Company edition
B) The 1962 Bantam Classics edition translated by Anthony Bonner
C) The 1966 Washington Square Press edition
D) The 1998 Oxford University Press edition
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