Dear friends,
Here are the results of the third Jules Verne Rare Entries Contest. You can also see the results at http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/rare/
I will not start a new contest during summer, as many people may be on
holidays; I'll also have to come up with good new questions. The rare
entries contest may be back in September.
RANK SCORE ENTRANT Q0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9
1. 288 Ariel Perez 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 4
2. 360 David Vasek 1 1 4 2 3 1 3 1 1 5
3. 480 Christophe Caron 3 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 2 5
4. 864 Alain Braut 3 1 1 2 1 3 3 2 2 4
5. 1296 Bernhard Krauth 3 1 2 2 3 1 3 3 1 4
6. 2304 Stefan Marniok 3 1 1 4 3 4 2 1 2 4
7. 3840 David McCallister 1 1 4 4 4 4 1 3 1 5
8. 8640 Art Evans 3 1 1 WR 1 1 3 3 WR WR
9. 15360 Marko Obradovic 1 2 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 5
10. 46080 Marc Reymann 3 2 4 4 4 4 3 1 2 5
These are the answers given by the top 3 entrants:
Ariel Perez David Vasek Christophe Caron
0 Harry William John
1 Beaurépaire Schuler Roux
2 Palle Huld Nellie Bly Bertrand Piccard
3 Sword Electric 2 L'Epouvante
4 Saint-Michel I Saint-Michel III Great Eastern
5 Ostrich Orang-outang Dog
6 Le chemin de France Le Chancellor Une ville flottante
7 Krzysztof Czubaszek Egon Cierny Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
8 Gil Braltar César Cascabel Gil Braltar
9 Léon Delmas Eugène Turpin Eugène Turpin
Answers given
Here are the answers given to each question, ranked from most to least
popular, i.e. worst to best, for each question:
| 0. Give a first name shared by at least five characters from five different
| Voyages Extraordinaires.
3 John (Bunsby, Mangles, Hatteras, Branican, Murray, Cort, Proth,
Davis)
3 Nicolas (Palander, "le Pesce", Pigassof, Starkos, Sagamore,
Deck)
1 Harry (Grant, Drake, Blount, Ford, Markel, Gibson, Rhodes,
Killer)
1 James (Weldon, Starr, Hilton, Wall, Burbank)
1 Jean (Cornbutte, Passepartout, Keller, Morgaz, Cascabel,
Morénas)
1 William (Batulcar, Emery, Falsten, Bidulph, Kolderup, Guy)
Nicolas is also the pseudonym used by Michel Strogoff: Nicolas Korpanoff.
It is debatable if fake names would count, but since there is already a
real Nicolas in this novel (Pigassof), it doesn't matter.
There are more Harry's, Johns and Jeans to be found in the Voyages
Extraordinaires; the names above are just a random selection.
| 1. Name an artist who provided at least one illustration that was included in
| an illustrated Hetzel edition of a Voyage Extraordinaire.
2 Jules Férat (e.g. Michel Strogoff)
1 Alfred Quesnay de Beaurépaire (Le pays des fourrures)
1 Edouard Riou (e.g. Cinq semaines en ballon)
1 Emile Bayard (Autour de la Lune, Un drame dans les airs)
1 F. de Myrbach (Hier et demain)
1 George Roux (e.g. Sans dessus dessous)
1 Lorenz Frölich (Une fantaisie du docteur Ox)
1 Léon Benett (e.g. Le tour du monde en 80 jours)
1 Théophile Schuler (Maître Zacharius)
Plenty of choice for this question; two unlucky entrants both picked
Férat. All the other illustrators, including the most famous ones (Riou,
Roux en Benett) were picked only once.
An interesting article on the illustrators of the Voyages Extraordinaires
(by Art Evans, one of this contest's entrants) can be found at:
http://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/illustr/
| 2. Name a person who, inspired by Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours,
| made a trip around the world in 80 days or less, and published an account
| of the journey, saying that Jules Verne's novel was the inspiration for it.
4 Nellie Bly (1890)
2 Palle Huld (1928)
1 Bertrand Piccard (1999)
1 Claude Mossé (1977?)
1 Jean Cocteau (1936)
1 Michael Palin (1988)
Nellie Bly and Palle Huld made the trip around the world with the purpose
of beating Fogg's record. Bly needed 72 days, Palle only 44. Cocteau,
Mossé and Palin took their time: they used the full 80 days.
Piccard's journey was a bit different: he circumnavigated the globe in a
balloon. He did say that this trip was inspired by Jules Verne, and he
published a book called "Le Tour du Monde en 20 Jours", so I accept this
answer.
| 3. Give the name of a submarine that is mentioned in a work by Jules Verne.
4 Nautilus (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers)
2 Electric (Mathias Sandorf) [= Electric 2]
2 Sword (Face au drapeau)
1 L'Epouvante (Maître du Monde)
WRONG:
1 Tug (not the name of the submarine)
The tug used by Ker Karraje in "Face au drapeau" is unnamed, it is just
referred to as "the tug". Since the question asks for "the name of a
submarine", I can't accept "Tug" as an answer.
In the novel "Mathias Sandorf", Verne says that all of Antékirtt's
submarines have the same name, Electric, and that they also have a number.
Since the question asked for a name, I treat "Electric" and "Electric 2"
as equivalent answers.
| 4. Give the name of a ship that Jules Verne travelled on.
4 Great Eastern (From Liverpool to New York, 1867)
3 Saint-Michel III (Verne's last and largest ship)
1 Hamburg (From Bordeaux to Liverpool, 1859)
1 Saint-John (From New York to Albany, 1867)
1 Saint-Michel I (Verne's first ship)
The Saint-Michel was Verne's first ship, on which he made frequent trips
along the coast. It was succeeded by the Saint-Michel II and finally the
Saint-Michel III. On this last yacht, he made several long cruises, to the
Mediterranean, the North Sea and the British Isles.
In 1867, Jules Verne and his brother Paul travelled to the United States
on board of the Great Eastern. They took the steamer Saint-John to reach
Albany, from where they visited the Niagara Falls. Verne wrote about this
trip in his novel "Une ville flottante" (with an added fictional plot).
The Hamburg is the ship that took Jacques and Jonathan from Bordeaux to
Liverpool in "Voyage à reculons". We know that this story is an accurate
description of the trip that Verne made with his friend Aristide Hignard
in 1859. While this is not an irrefutable proof that Hamburg was the
ship's real name, I give the entrant the benefit of doubt. Interestingly,
the ship's captain in "Voyage à Reculons" was called Speedy. Verne used
this name in "Le tour du monde en 80 jours" for the captain of a ship with
destination Bordeaux, that is taken to Liverpool instead.
| 5. Name an animal species of which at least one individual
representative, in
| a Voyage Extraordinaire, has a proper name. That is, if a duck called
| Donald would appear in a Voyage Extraordinaire, than "duck" would be a
| correct answer.
4 Dog (e.g. Top, L'Ile mystérieuse)
3 Ostrich (Dada, L'Etoile du Sud)
1 Elephant (Kiouni, Le tour du monde en 80 jours)
1 Horse (e.g. Thaouka, Les enfants du capitaine Grant)
1 Orang-outang (Jup in "L'Ile mystérieuse")
Other animals with proper names are goats, parrots and monkeys. And of
course, there are all the different incarnation of the rat family in "La
Famille Raton".
| 6. Name a Voyage Extraordinaire that is *completely* written from a
| first-person perspective, i.e. the narrator is one of the characters in the
| story.
3 Le Chancellor (J.-R. Kazallon)
3 Le chemin de France (Natalis Delpierre)
2 Voyage au centre de la Terre (Axel)
1 Le sphinx des glaces [= An Antarctic Mystery]
1 Une ville flottante (?)
The name of the narrator in Une Ville flottante is not known. This gives
the novel an especially autobiographical feeling.
| 7. Name someone who is currently the president of a Jules Verne Society, Jules
| Verne Club, or similar association.
3 Jean-Michel Margot (North American Jules Verne Society)
2 Gerard Voogt (Dutch Jules Verne Society)
1 Dieter Michaelis (Jules Verne Club Berlin)
1 Egon Cierny (Klub Julese Vernea, Prague)
1 Jean-Christophe Jeauffre (Jules Verne Aventures)
1 Krzysztof Czubaszek (Polish Jules Verne Society)
1 Mme Pia Daix (Centre International Jules Verne, Amiens)
| 8. Name a character from a work by Jules Verne whose full name is also the
| full title of the work he/she appears in (subtitles may be ignored for this
| question).
2 Gil Braltar
2 Hector Servadac
2 Martin Paz
1 César Cascabel
1 Don Galaor
1 Mathias Sandorf
WRONG:
1 Jean-Marie Cabidoulin (Not the full title)
The full title of the story that Cabidoulin appears in, is Les Histoires
de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin.
| 9. Name someone who was Jules Verne's opponent in a court of law.
5 Eugène Turpin (felt insulted by the character Thomas Roch)
4 Léon Delmas (accused Verne of plagiarism) [= René de Pont-Jest]
WRONG:
1 Edouard Cadol (there was no court of law)
Léon Delmas, who used the pseudonym René de Pont-Jest, accused Verne of
plagiarising his short story "La tête de Mimer". The accusation, based on
the use of the Sun's shadow in "Voyage au centre de la Terre" (Delmas had
used the Moon's shadow in his short story) was really far-fetched, and
Verne was
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