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  In the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, Dr. Maturin complains that sailors invariably do what to the exotic animals he brings aboard? see if you know the answer
Answered: 236 times
Correct: 111 times (25.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 125 times (28.2%)
Skipped: 208 times (46.8%)
  Which one of these, now virtually forgotten but once immensely popular, Victorian novelists wrote what is now known as "sea novels", which were much admired by the likes of Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, and served as models for the work of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester? see if you know the answer
Answered: 59 times
Correct: 35 times (39.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 24 times (27.3%)
Skipped: 29 times (33.0%)
  On August 10, 2009, the Andaman Islands were hit by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurring below the Indian Ocean.

In which novel does this remote group of islands, or rather the penal colony once located there, figure as the backdrop of one or more characters' history? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 83 times
Correct: 23 times (19.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 60 times (51.3%)
Skipped: 34 times (29.1%)
  The Irish physician Stephen Maturin from Patrick O'Brian's seafaring books owns a castle in what country? see if you know the answer
Answered: 37 times
Correct: 21 times (26.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 16 times (20.0%)
Skipped: 43 times (53.8%)
  What kind of animal does Dr. Stephen Maturin name after his friend Captain Jack Aubrey?Patrick O'Brian see if you know the answer
Answered: 42 times
Correct: 30 times (33.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 12 times (13.2%)
Skipped: 49 times (53.8%)
  In Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian Jack Aubrey must escape France dressed as a what? see if you know the answer
Answered: 17 times
Correct: 5 times (11.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 12 times (26.7%)
Skipped: 28 times (62.2%)

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