Braingle: 'Gulliver's Travels: Journey to Laputa Part 1' Trivia Quiz

You've all heard about "Gulliver's Travels" by Johnathan Swift. Gulliver was known for his travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, but what about Laputa? This quiz will test your knowledge of Laputa and Balnibarbi from Gulliver's Third Journey. Every answer to this quiz can be found in Part 3, Chapters One through Six in "Gulliver's Travels".

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#1 Gulliver set off on a journey as a ship surgeon. How did he get to the islands?

He was in the midst of a storm and was thrown ashore.
He was marooned on the island by the crew.
He was captured by pirates and thrown overboard in a small boat.
The box from Brobdingnag floated there with him in it.
He was dragged by a giant bird.

#2 Lilliput was full of small people and Brobdingnag was full of large ones. What was so special about Laputa?

#3 Balnibarbi was a place with many problems. What was the biggest problem in broadest terms?

Everyone was poor because taxes were high.
Everyone was trying to create problem solvers but they were not perfected yet.
Volcanic disasters kept destroying crops and products.
The Island had no resources, no fertile soil, and nothing of any value to back up their currency with.
Enemy countries kept attacking and pillaging.

#4 Laputians tend to lose focus a lot. What are the people who get them back on track called?

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#5 Balnibarbi was full of ideas. Where do these ideas go? The answer is the giant Academy of...

#6 The Laputians don't care much for anything but...

#7 The Academy is full of wacky and crazy ideas. Which of the following is not one of them?

Putting two different brain halves in the same head so a person could have conversations with himself
Creating an international language by having people carry miniature forms of every noun
Making already colored silk by feeding spiders different colored flies
Making food larger to stop hunger
Softening marble so it can be used as pillows and pincushions

#8 Laputa was very scared of the end of the world. Which of these Armageddons was not predicted by Laputions?

A comet's tail shall burn the Earth to a crisp.
The Sun's light will be blocked by effluvia.
The Earth will be absorbed by the Sun.
The Sun will run out of energy and burn out.
The Earth shall be flooded when the ice caps melt.

#9 A few professors in the Academy were working on a way to get rid of language. Which part of speech is the one they considered to be the only important one?

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Gulliver's Travels: Journey to Laputa Part 1

#1 Gulliver set off on a journey as a ship surgeon. How did he get to the islands?

#2 Lilliput was full of small people and Brobdingnag was full of large ones. What was so special about Laputa?

#3 Balnibarbi was a place with many problems. What was the biggest problem in broadest terms?

#4 Laputians tend to lose focus a lot. What are the people who get them back on track called?

#5 Balnibarbi was full of ideas. Where do these ideas go? The answer is the giant Academy of...

#6 The Laputians don't care much for anything but...

#7 The Academy is full of wacky and crazy ideas. Which of the following is not one of them?

#8 Laputa was very scared of the end of the world. Which of these Armageddons was not predicted by Laputions?

#9 A few professors in the Academy were working on a way to get rid of language. Which part of speech is the one they considered to be the only important one?

#10 What is the name of the port city Gulliver goes to when he is leaving Balnibarbi?

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