Q 01/05

Which Star Trek villain quotes Ahab's dying curse, 'for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee'?

A) General Chang

B) Khan

C) Shinzon

D) Gul Dukat

Answer · why

B) Khan

Khan speaks Ahab's lines as he sets off the Genesis Device, hoping to take Kirk's Enterprise down with him.

Q 02/05

Which 2015 Ron Howard film dramatizes the real whaleship disaster that inspired Moby-Dick's ending?

A) Master and Commander

B) The Perfect Storm

C) In the Heart of the Sea

D) Captain Phillips

Answer · why

C) In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea follows the crew after a giant whale cripples their ship, leaving the survivors adrift through storms and starvation.

Q 03/05

In Moby-Dick, what is the name of Captain Ahab's whaling ship?

A) Jeroboam

B) Bachelor

C) Pequod

D) Goney

Answer · why

C) Pequod

The Pequod sinks when Moby Dick rams her, becoming the second 'hearse' made of American wood that was prophesied for Ahab.

Q 04/05

In Moby-Dick, what does Ahab use to temper the barbs of the harpoon he forges for the white whale?

A) Holy water

B) Sea water

C) Whale oil

D) Human blood

Answer · why

D) Human blood

Human blood: Ahab refuses water and has the three pagan harpooneers give their own, howling that he baptizes the iron in the devil's name.

Q 05/05

Moby Dick is which species of cetacean?

A) Blue whale

B) Right whale

C) Humpback whale

D) Sperm whale

Answer · why

D) Sperm whale

Sperm whale: whalers hunted it for spermaceti, the waxy substance in its head used for candles and lubricants.