Jules Verne

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Jules Verne wrote which adventure about Captain Nemo's submarine?

Answer: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Bonus fact: Captain Nemo commands the Nautilus.

Which Verne novel follows Phileas Fogg on a global wager?

Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days

Bonus fact: Fogg attempts to circle the globe in eighty days.

Jules Verne wrote in which language?

Answer: French

Bonus fact: He became one of the world's most translated authors.

Which group from an earlier Jules Verne novel returns in "The Purchase of the North Pole"?

Answer: The Baltimore Gun Club

Bonus fact: The Baltimore Gun Club first appeared in Verne's lunar novels about launching a projectile toward the Moon.

Who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: 1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne.

Who wrote the novel "Around the Moon"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The book continues the lunar adventure begun in "From the Earth to the Moon."

Who wrote "The Children of Captain Grant"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The novel is also widely known in English as "In Search of the Castaways."

Who wrote "The Purchase of the North Pole"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The novel is also known in English as "Topsy-Turvy."

Who wrote "Robur the Conqueror"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The novel explores the 19th-century debate over lighter-than-air balloons versus powered heavier-than-air flight.

Who wrote "Master of the World"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The novel brings back the inventor Robur from an earlier Verne adventure.

Who wrote the adventure novel "Michael Strogoff"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The novel follows a dangerous journey across the Russian Empire rather than one of Verne's better-known technological adventures.

Who wrote "The Begum's Fortune"?

Answer: Jules Verne

Bonus fact: The novel contrasts two radically different cities built from portions of the same inherited fortune.

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