What is the name of the captain of the English whaler Samuel Enderby?
Answer
Captain Boomer
77 Moby Dick Trivia Questions with Answers
77 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the chapter containing Father Mapple's sermon?
Answer
The Sermon
What is the name of the French whaling ship encountered by the Pequod?
Answer
The Bouton de Rose
What is the name of the whaleship that tells a story of mutiny?
Answer
The Town-Ho
What dollar value is the gold doubloon nailed to the Pequod's mast?
Answer
16 dollars
What is the name of the captain of the ship Rachel?
Answer
Captain Gardiner
What was the British title of Herman Melville's novel?
Answer
The Whale
What is the name of the inn where Ishmael and Queequeg first share a room?
Answer
The Spouter-Inn
In which ocean does the Pequod hunt Moby Dick?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
What was Ishmael's profession before joining the Pequod?
Answer
Schoolmaster
What is the name of the real albino sperm whale that inspired Moby Dick?
Answer
Mocha Dick
Who is the second mate of the Pequod?
Answer
Stubb
What is the name of the blacksmith on the Pequod?
Answer
Perth
How many chapters does "Moby-Dick" contain?
Answer
135
What real-life shipwreck inspired "Moby-Dick"?
Answer
Essex
What is the name of the first mate on the Pequod?
Answer
Starbuck
In what year was "Moby-Dick" published?
Answer
1851
What type of whale is Moby Dick?
Answer
Sperm whale
Who narrates "Moby-Dick"?
Answer
Ishmael
What is the first line of "Moby-Dick"?
Answer
"Call me Ishmael."
What is the name of the ship in "Moby-Dick"?
Answer
Pequod
What is the name of the captain obsessed with the white whale?
Answer
Captain Ahab