The majority of this novel consists of the recollections of the narrator while waiting inside a periscope in the Musée des Arts et Métiers (“moo-ZAY day ZAR ay mate-YAY”), which also contains this novel’s title object. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel in which three men use the computer Abulafia to invent an intricate conspiracy theory called The Plan.
ANSWER: Foucault’s Pendulum [or Il pendolo di Foucault]
[10e] The protagonists of Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum discover a plot for world domination by this medieval order of Catholic knights, who are the guardians of the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code.
ANSWER: Knights Templar [or the Templars]
[10h] The Templar plot revolves around controlling these currents of energy, which flow to an “Omphalos” at the center of the earth. Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon describes these forces as a secret communication system through a Hollow Earth.
ANSWER: telluric currents [prompt on Earth currents or currents]
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