Question
In his first fictional appearance, Baron Munchausen accomplishes this feat twice: once to retrieve his silver hatchet, and again when his ship is caught in a forceful hurricane. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this accomplishment which, in a satirical novel, Cyrano de Bergerac attempts by strapping himself with bottles of dew.
ANSWER: traveling to the moon [accept any answer indicating reaching the moon; prompt on space travel or equivalents]
[10e] In a novel by this author, the Baltimore Gun Club builds a giant rifle to shoot themselves to the moon. This French science fiction author wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
ANSWER: Jules Verne [or Jules Cornelius Verne]
[10m] Though there was no knowledge of their existence at the time, Gulliver observes that astronomers from this kingdom have discovered two moons of Mars. This floating kingdom terrorizes Balnibarbi by dropping rocks.
ANSWER: Laputa
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