The Element of Traveling - Part 3

As a further spin-off to my last 2 posts - with their travel theme, this post features a quiz about famous journeys, real and literary. The quiz consists of 20 descriptions of journeys. See how many you can recognize from the descriptions.

1.     This journey was made via the yellow brick road.  Who made this journey and what was the destination?

2.     This journey was made from an ashram near Ahmedabad, India to the coastal village of Dandi.  What is this journey popularly known as, who organized it, and what political event did it ultimately lead to?

3.     This journey was made from Manila to Mexico in a small lifeboat, in the company of a tiger.  What is the name of the person who made this journey, why did he change his name, and what was the name of the tiger who accompanied him on this journey?

4.     This journey was made by someone who was cursed to wander the seas for 10 years. He experienced many treacherous challenges, one of which was passing an island which sent seafarers to their doom.  On this island, lived a group of singing women.  The song they sang caused every sailor who heard it, to steer their boats towards the rocks, hit the rocks, and sink.  The hero of our journey, escaped this fate, by having himself tied to the mast of his ship when they passed the island.  What is the name of the book in which you can read about his journey, who wrote this book, and what was the name of the inhabitants of the island who led sailors to a rocky death by their singing?

5.     This journey was made across the Atlantic in 1492, with a fleet of 3 ships, by the “Admiral of the Ocean Sea”. It led to the discovery of a new continent. Who was the “Admiral of the Ocean Sea”, what were the names of his ships, and what continent did he discover?

6.     This journey was undertaken by an English gentleman, who was so fastidious, he dismissed his valet for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F instead of 86 °F. Accompanied by a new valet, he makes this journey, betting 20,000 pounds that he will complete it in a certain number of days.  What was the journey, and how many days did it take? P.S. The author of this story was inspired by the linking of the Indian railways across the Indian sub-continent.

7.     This journey was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson, and was the first journey across the western part of the United States.  It was made by two military men, a Captain and a Lieutenant. The goal of this journey was to explore the vast territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase and to establish trade and U.S. sovereignty over the native peoples along the Missouri River. What were the names of the Captain and the Lieutenant who made this journey, what is the official name for their journey, and how many new plants and animals did they discover?

8.     This journey - both an autobiographical and literary journey - was undertaken by 2 protagonists of the Beat and Counterculture generation. In 2012, Francis Ford Coppola turned the journey into a movie. Other than the 2 main protagonists, several famous people belonging to the Beat generation, are associated with this journey, one of them a famous author, another, a famous poet.  Who are the protagonists, and who are the famous author and poet?

9.     This journey was made by an Indian advertising copywriter, who moved to America, became a Commissions Analyst, and started a blog in December of 2010. This is her 298th post. Can you name the person?

10.  This journey was undertaken by a millionaire, who made his millions by renting exchange memberships to would-be floor traders, starting with the Chicago Board Options Exchange. In 2002, he circumnavigated the world.  What was his name, and how did he circumnavigate the world?  Was it by airplane, by boat, by foot, by bicycle, or by something else?

11.This journey was undertaken by 2 sisters, who set out in their nightdresses, to rescue their brother.  Hint:  The journey is told in a post on this blog.  What was the name of the post, and who were the two sisters who made the journey?

12.This Antarctic journey was made by a doctor and two men, under conditions of complete darkness, and temperatures of −40 °C and below, with a goal of procuring the eggs of a specific bird for scientific study.  Only one of them lived to be able to tell the tale in a book. Who was he, and what was the the much sought-after bird, whose eggs they wanted to procure?

13.This journey was undertaken by an Austrian, who on a climbing expedition in India in 1939, was caught by British officials, and sent to a detention camp in Dehradun in North India.  He and his fellow-climbers escaped from the detention camp, and made it across the border to Tibet.  He lived in Tibet for the next 7 years, becoming the tutor to an important Tibetan figure, whom he taught English, geography and science.  He even built a cinema for this figure - with a film projector run off a Jeep engine. What was the name of this Austrian climber, and who was the Tibetan figure he became a close friend of, and tutor to? Can you also name the memoir he wrote about the years he spent in Tibet?

14.This journey took a woman, who was in search of herself after a divorce, to India, Italy and Bali, Indonesia. The journey became a New York Times Best-seller list memoir, and the memoir became a hit film. What was the name of the author who wrote the memoir, and what is the memoir called?

15.This journey took its protagonist from Andalucia in Spain, to the sands of the Sahara in Egypt, in search of treasure. What was the occupation of the person who made this journey? Also what prompted him to make this journey? Was it someone he met, wanderlust, a book he read, or something else?
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Do you have a literary or historical journey to add to the list? I'm sure you do.  Take a moment to think of one and to reflect on how it might be special in some way.

As always, thanks for reading, and have a great day and week….M….a Pearl Seeker like you.  Thanks to Aarathi for suggesting Freedom Come, Freedom Go as an addition to the list of songs with lyrics about countries, cities, states or towns (see my last post). Thanks, Aarathi.  Your suggestion was a trip down memory lane for me, resulting in me listening, to not just, Freedom Come, Freedom Go on You Tube, but other hits of The Fortunes, such as “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again.” I really did enjoy that. Thanks also, to the rest of you, for your likes, pins and votes.  Much Appreciated!

P.S.  Answers to the questions in this post will be in my next post.