Moby-Dick Marathon Trivia!

Are you a Moby-Dick wiz? Put your knowledge to the test with a trivia game created by Melville Scholars.

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Which of the following ships did not meet the Pequod for a gam?

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The Samuel Enderby

The Julia

The Jungfrau

The Town Ho

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True or False: Queequeg rescues the “bumpkin” (aboard the Moss en route to Nantucket) and Tashtego from death by drowning.

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True

False

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The Pequod engages with gams with ships hailing from all of these nations except

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Germany

France

England

Holland

America

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Which of these actions was not carried out by Queequeg?

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He died and was placed in a coffin after rescuing a man who had fallen overboard

He sat down on top of a sleeping sailor and smoked his tomahawk pipe

He sold shrunken heads on the streets of New Bedford

He fasted squatting down for a full day and night with an idol on his head

He flipped a man who was teasing him up in the air all the way around until he landed on his feet

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True or False: Ahab’s name was “a foolish, ignorant whim” of his widowed mother.

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True

False

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According to Ishmael, a Specksynder:

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“proceeds cylindrically to remove its [the whale's] dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa”

is “a begrimed, blistered old blacksmith . . . . [whose] patient hammer [is] wielded by a patient arm”

is “equivalent to Chief Harpooneer”

knows “how to cook a whale-steak”

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Which of these statements about Ahab is not true?

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He has “been in colleges, as well as 'mong cannibals.”

He “has a wife—not three voyages wedded—a sweet, resigned girl.”

He is “a hot old man!”

His “unconscious fearlessness . . . [has] made him a little waggish in the matter of whales.”

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Mrs. Hussey's stew contains one of these ingredients. Which is it?

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“a great baron of salt-junk”

“salted pork cut up into little flakes”

A “broiled fowl” “judiciously buttered and judgmatically salted and peppered”

A “Himmalehan, salt-sea, Mastodon”

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True or False: Is Moby Dick a sperm whale because of the “junk” in his head.

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True

False

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True or False: Starbuck, Fedallah, and Ahab offer a reading of the Doubloon?

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True

False

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What is Queequeg's religion?

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Yojoist

Zoroastrian

Presbyterian

Muslim

None of the above.

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True or False: The names of the harpooneers on the Pequod are Daggoo, Tashtego, Queequeg, and Fedallah.

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True

False

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In the opening sentence of the book, Ishmael speaks his name for the first time. How does he identify himself by name the second time in Moby-Dick?

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"'I say, Queequeg! why don't you speak? It's I, Ishmael.'"

"Call me Ishmael"

"'I say, Queequeg! why don't you speak? Call me Ishmael'"

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Which of the following articles of clothing is Queequeg known to wear (one or more)?

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A pair of duck trousers

An ordinary round jacket & a new beaver hat

A gold earring & a nightgown

All of the above

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True or False: An ambergris can be found in the stomach of a blue whale.

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True

False

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Which of the following containers are mentioned in Moby-Dick?

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Great Heidelburg Tun & Cistern

Cassock & Decanter

All of the above

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True or False: Ahab and Captain Boomer of the Samuel Enderby are known to wear a prosthetic.

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True

False

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What does Stubb like to eat that other whalemen don’t like to eat?

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Onions

Whalemeat

Cherries

Salt pork

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Who warns Ishmael & Queequeg about going aboard the Pequod?

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Gabriel

Elijah

Lucifer

Michael

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True or False: There are 8 whalemen in each whaleboat.

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True

False

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