Today’s first question draws on a real-life event from November 20th, which was later adapted into a work of fiction. The rest of the questions also blend fact and fiction to varying degrees.
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One
The 20 November 1820 ramming and sinking of the American ship Essex inspired a climatic scene in what 1851 epic maritime novel?
Two
The series of novels first published in 1980, written by Robert, and the subsequent films first released in 2002 starring Matthew, may have taken their title character’s surname from a 19th-century psychology case involving a patient named Ansel who likely suffered from reversible amnesia.
Three
The Terror, a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons is a fictionalised account of what failed 1845 expedition of Arctic exploration?
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Four
James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic depicts the real-life disaster that occurred in what year?
Secondly, Titanic sank approximately 370 miles (600 kilometers) southeast of where?
Five
Every Man for Himself, a 1996 novel which is also set on the Titanic, was a Booker Prize nominee. Who wrote this novel?
Secondly, although not explained in this book or indeed in the film mentioned at question four above, what does the term RMS mean in the ships name, RMS Titanic?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
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