 | The land of heather, haggis, and Hutton's unconformity. |
SciFi |
Jules Verne |
Not quite 20,000 leagues |
Under the sea |
Around the World |
In '80 |
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The irrascible Boston professor, often said to be the 20th century's most prolific scifi writer, and populariser of the word "Robot".
Who was Isaac Asimov?
The English 19th Century author, often called the Father of Science Fiction, author of The Time Machine.
What was H.G. Wells?
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The year identified by Stanley Kubrick in the film based on Arthur C. Clarke's The Sentinel.
What is 2001 (A Space Odyssey)?
The temperature of spontaneous combustion of paper, according to the title of the novel by Ray Bradbury.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
The story of a desert planet, Arrakis, and the power struggles in the interstellar empire over the source of Melange, the "spice of spices", by Frank Herbert..
What is Dune?
The city of Jules Verne's birth, situated on the Atlantic coast of France, at the mouth of the Loire.
What is Nantes?
The structure in Paris, built for the World Exposition in 1878, with a restaurant named for Jules Verne.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
He was encouraged to write by this man, his friend and mentor, and author of the Three Musketeers.
What was Alexandre Dumas?
Of the many inventions Verne is often supposed to have foreseen, the only one about which he actually wrote: submarine, balloon travel, television, computer, atomic bomb.
What is balloon travel (in Five Weeks in a Balloon)?
The reason why Phileas Fogg, who travelled around the world for 80 days and 5 minutes, in reality circumnavigated in less than 80 days.
What is the International Date Line? (He only took 79 days, 5 minutes, to an observer remaining in London.)
The organization, headquartered in Geneva, that preceded the United Nations Organization.
What was the League of Nations?
This league is filled with panthers, bears, sharks, hawks and coyotes.
What is the National Hockey League?
A name given to 8 prestigious universities in USA.
The international softball league for people under 18.
The deepest point in the oceans.
What is the Challenger Depth (or Mariana Trench)?
This immense west Pacific submarine plateau may well be the largest flood basalt province in the world.
What is the Ontong-Java Plateau?
The only ocean with a single mid-ocean ridge down its middle.
In 1963, this island appeared from beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Iceland.
As Atlantis is known as the lost continent of the Atlantic Ocean, so Limuria is the lost continent of this ocean.
The land of heather, haggis, and Hutton's unconformity.
The land of chocolate, cuckoo clocks, and Alpine chalets.
The land of sandy deserts, sheiks, and home of Islam.
The land of the Octoberfest, the Lorelei, and the Brandenburg Gate.
The land of the Spice Islands, the Komodo dragon, and Krakatoa.
In May 1980, this volcano erupted violently in Washington.
In February, the winter Olympics were held in this town, with the ski-jump built above John Brown's grave.
This newly elected president was declared the Man of the Year by Time Magazine.
This Liverpudlian songster was assassinated in New York by Mark Chapman.
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The music album of the year, by Pink Floyd.