Answer the following about authors who depicted journeys to the moon, for 10 points each.
[10e] This French author included From the Earth to the Moon in his series of “Extraordinary Voyages,” which also included his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.
ANSWER: Jules Verne [or Jules Gabriel Verne]
[10m] The title shoes cause a watchman to accidentally be transported to the Moon in this author’s story “The Galoshes of Fortune.” His other stories about footwear include “The Red Shoes.”
ANSWER: Hans Christian Andersen
[10h] This Greek-language author of the second century CE depicted several travelers being taken to the Moon, and thereafter being swallowed by a massive whale, in his satire A True Story.
ANSWER: Lucian (“LOO-see-uhn”) of Samosata
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