1. What is 'Moby Dick''s opening sentence, perhaps the most famous of all? Answer: (Three Words)

2. Three on Ishmael's harpooneer friend Queequeg: first, where does he come from? Marquesas Islands Tahiti Kokovoko Hawaii

3. What is the little wooden idol he worships? Srendi Vashtar Loki Yojo Omoo

4. Finally, what American president does Ishmael compare Queequeg to? Jefferson Jackson Lincoln Washington

5. What is the pulpit of the Seaman's Bethel shaped like in the book? a ship's prow a whaleboat a ship's stern a figurehead

6. Who are the owners of the 'Pequod'? Powell and Pressburger Mack and Meyer Bildad and Peleg Cooper and Schoedsack

7. Where does the 'Pequod' sail from? Fairhaven Martha's Vineyard Nantucket New Bedford

8. Besides Starbuck, who are the other two mates? Hecht and MacArthur Stubb and Flask Maryk and Keefer Fine and Howard

9. And the two other harpooners? Dagoo and Tashtego Stan and Ollie Tom and Jerry Bud and Lou

10. What other characters are black besides Dagoo? Uncle Tom and Eliza Bill and Russell Amos and Andy Pip and the cook

11. What is the first ship the 'Pequod' meets? Wanderer Albatross Charles W. Morgan Lagoda

12. Which leg of Ahab's was lost to Moby? never specified right left both

13. What reward does Ahab offer for he who first sights the White Whale? a bar of gold a gold doubloon a million dollars the hand of his daughter

14. Who does Queequeg rescue from the head of a sperm whale? Tashtego Ishmael Starbuck Ahab

15. What does Stubb discover in the bowels of a killed whale? a piece of scrimshaw a jack-knife ambergris a harpoon

16. And what ship was the 'Pequod' visiting when this happened? Answer: (think Orson Welles)

17. What unusual part of a whale's anatomy is hauled up on the 'Pequod'? its prostate gland its pancreas its penis its kidneys

18. Where does the 'Samuel Enderby' come from? England Scotland Ireland Australia

19. What does Queequeg have the ship's carpenter make for him? a wooden idol a handle for his harpoon his coffin a new sea chest

20. What does Ahab temper his new harpoon with? wine ambergris whale oil blood

21. Which whaleship is looking for its captain's lost son? the Fidele the Bachelor the Rachel the Delight

22. What do Ahab and the crew see during a storm? Sheet lightning a tidal wave Heat lightning St. Elmo's Fire

23. Who first sees Moby Dick? Pip Starbuck Ahab Queequeg

24. After Moby Dick destroys the 'Pequod' and kills Ahab and the rest of the crew, what saves Ishmael? a fiendly dolphin a spar Queequeg's coffin a whaleboat

25. And what ship picks him up? Rosebud Samuel Enderby Albatross Rachel