Adventure Fiction
Haggard lived here and based the book on it.
What is Africa.
The name of the two mountains that guide the adventurers.
What are Sheba's breasts?
The name for the race to colonize Africa.
What is The Scramble for Africa (sometimes referred to as The Rape of Africa)?
Has a viking-like stature.
Who is Sir Henry Curtis?
Khiva, Captain Good's Zulu servant, was killed in this way.
What is being torn in two by an elephant?
Sir Henry's quest.
What is finding his brother?
The nickname given to Sir Henry Curtis' by the Kukuana people (in English).
What is Elephant (Incubu)?
Name three countries that raced to colonize Africa.
What are Belgium, France, Germany, England, Portugal, Spain, and Italy?
Has a son named Harry.
Who is Allan Quatermain?
The map resembles this.
What is the female body?
This movement in Britain contributed to the popularity of Adventure Fiction.
What is imperialism?
The dedication at the beginning of the novel.
What is "To all the big and little boys who read it"?
These were discovered in Africa causing people to race to make their fortune.
What are diamonds? (in the Kimberley mines, also known as "Big Hole")
The rightful king of Kukuanaland.
Who is Ignosi (formerly known as Umbopa)?
Allan Quatermain's nickname and what it translates to in English.
What is Macumazahn which means Watcher by Night?
Sylvester, the Portugese adventurer, used this to draw the map.
What is his blood?
A gentleman is not supposed to worry about this.
What is money?
The ancient ruins discovered in the late 19th century that Haggard based his Phoenician ancient structures on.
What is Greater Zimbabwe?
Has beautiful white legs.
Who is Captain John Good?
Suspected witches are killed using these two objects.
What is a spear and a club?
The adventurers slaughter these on their way to Kukuanaland.
What are the elephants?
The law which determined that Twala received trial by combat when he is deposed.
What is the boon of the Kukuana royal house?
The race of people that Haggard admires.
What are the Zulus?
Smells out the witches.
Who is Gagool?
The Phoenician rock figures outside King Solomon's Mines.
What are the Silent Ones?