Question

In a novel, an emperor of this place named Irdonozur possesses stones that can supposedly generate heat or render a man weightless. In a different novel, this place is home to the demon of Socrates and a race of four-legged beings with guns that simultaneously kill, pluck, roast, and season the birds they shoot. With the aid (15[1])of birds called gansas, Domingo Gonsales travels to this place from Tenerife in a novel by Francis Godwin. By strapping bottles of (*) dew to his body, (10[2])the protagonist attempts to travel to this place in a novel titled for this place’s “Comical History” by Cyrano de Bergerac. (10[1])In another novel, a direct cannon route to (10[1])this place (10[1])that takes 97 hours and 20 minutes is planned by the Baltimore (10[1])Gun Club. For 10 points, Jules Verne wrote a novel titled “From the Earth to” what celestial body? ■END■

ANSWER: the Moon [accept The Man in the Moone; accept Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon; accept From the Earth to the Moon]
<Hong, Long Fiction>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jordan BrownsteinJinAh and Jordan from Wikiquizbruh5615
Arya KarthikSandmännchen im HelikopterNaocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse8210
Eshan PantLet's Fighting LoveThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola8210
Kai Smith1.g4 Test Mixturemnemonists10310
Caleb KendrickJJarylandprotobowling for soup11110
DMAboy's jitches (ft. DMA)NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)11310
Jacky XuchamPAIN and cornHELL in ColumbiaParden the Interruption12510

Summary

2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024Y5100%20%0%97.40
2024 ESPN @ Columbia03/23/2024Y7100%14%0%96.00
2024 ESPN @ Duke03/23/2024Y2100%50%0%91.00
2024 ESPN @ Brown04/06/2024Y3100%0%0%113.33
2024 ESPN @ Cambridge04/06/2024Y2100%0%0%103.00
2024 ESPN @ Online06/01/2024Y4100%0%0%102.75