Background
First Day
Second Day
Third Day
Fourth/Fifth Day
100
The author of the novel?
What is Ernest Hemmingway
100
The amount of days the Old Man goes without catching fish?
What is 87 days
100

Where does the story take place?

What is Cuba

100

What does the old man eat while at sea?

What is tuna

100
The first kind of shark that arrives to the side of the boat?
What is Mako
200
The name of the old man?
What is Santiago
200
The name of the little boy who used to work for the Old Man?
What is Manolin
200

What animal does the old man keep referring to as "friends"?

What are dolphins.

200

The old man is described as “gaunt”.  What does this mean?

What is lean and haggard?

200

What is the major conflict in the story?

What is man vs. self

300
The Old Man's profession
What is a fisherman
300
The only part of the Old Man that has not aged?
What is his eyes
300

What does the old man use to fish?

What is a fishing line and his hands.

300

Which hand does the Old Man injure in the beginning?

What is the right hand

300
The name of the athlete the Old Man admires?
What is DiMaggio
400
Type of work The Old Man and the Sea is?
What is a novella
400
The sport the Old Man and the boy discuss at the shack?
What is baseball
400
The type of fish that pulls the Old Man out to sea?
What is the Marlin
400
What does the Old Man find in the dolphin's stomach?
What is two flying fish
400
On the side of the boat when the Old Man returns back to land?
What is the skeleton of the fish
500

How does the boy view the old man?

What is as a father figure.

500
The meaning of the word "salao"?
What is "the worst form of lucky"
500

What is the important weapon the old man has for when the fish finally surfaces?

What is a harpoon

500
The dream that the Old Man has every night?
What is lions on the beach in Africa
500
The length of the fish?
What is 18 feet