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Which country is Lemuel Gulliver from?
Answer: England
Why: Holland is only a cover story: on his third voyage the Englishman poses as a Dutchman to get into Japan.
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What moves the island of Laputa?
Answer: A giant magnet
Why: The magnet is six yards long, and turning one end to attract or repel the ground below makes the island sink or rise.
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Whose name did the 1726 edition give as its author?
Answer: Lemuel Gulliver
Why: Its publisher, Benjamin Motte, feared prosecution and cut or softened the most offensive passages before printing.
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Which disaster does Lilliput's court fear Gulliver will cause?
Answer: A famine
Why: Every morning the villages around the capital must deliver six cattle and forty sheep, plus other food, to feed him.
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What does a Lagado scientist try to get out of cucumbers?
Answer: Sunbeams
Why: He plans to seal the sunbeams in glass phials and release them to warm the air in cold, wet summers.
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How old is a struldbrug when declared legally dead?
Answer: 80
Why: At eighty their heirs take over their estates at once, leaving them only a small allowance to live on.
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