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Question 1: What is the full date of Jules Verne’s birth, celebrated each year as a nod to his pioneering imagination?

Question 2: In Verne’s 1865 novel 'From the Earth to the Moon,' the Baltimore Gun Club builds the colossal Columbiad to launch a projectile toward the Moon—which U.S. state does Verne choose as the launch site?

Question 3: Sharing a name with Captain Nemo’s craft from 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas,' which U.S. Navy vessel became the first nuclear-powered submarine and made the historic under-ice transit to the North Pole in 1958?

Question 4: In 'Journey to the Center of the Earth,' Professor Lidenbrock and Axel descend through a real volcanic crater in Iceland—what is the name of this glacier-capped stratovolcano?

Question 5: Echoing 'Around the World in Eighty Days,' which British traveler and TV presenter completed an 80-day circumnavigation for a BBC series in the late 1980s, using only ground and sea transport?


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