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 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[1])the protagonist attempts (10[1])to travel to this place in a novel titled for this place’s “Comical History” by Cyrano de Bergerac. In another (10[1])novel, a direct cannon route to this place that takes 97 hours and 20 minutes is planned by the Baltimore Gun Club. For 10 points, Jules Verne wrote a novel titled “From the Earth (10[1])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
Tris ColeWorld's Fair Wiggle WalkThe Present King of James is Bald8210
Tracy MirkinRiley et al.Houston Junior College8510
Jason ChengFree-ish AgentsWilliams et al.10510
Nicholas TunksTunks et al.Cleo: 5/7 movie13910

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