Mark Twain trivia question?

Question

I am doing jeopardy with my class and we are learning about Mark Twain and I need a good final jeopardy question about him. Thanks!

Please don't put" put his real name Samuel Clemens" beacause I already have it in the jeopardy game. Thanks again!

Answer 1

A: Twain's first national hit story.
Q: What is "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (or "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" or "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County")?

A: The city of Twain's grave.
Q: What is Elmira, NY?

A: Twain's birthplace.
Q: What is Florida, Missourri?

Answer 2

Mark Twain Trivia

Answer 3

His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and the pen name Mark Twain is a reference to steam boat piloting.

Answer 4

Either one of two things come to mind.

Easy question:
What was his real name?

Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Hard question:
Where did the name Mark Twain come from.

Answer: "Mark Twain", came from his years working on Mississippi riverboats, where two fathoms (12 ft, approximately 3.7 m) or "safe water" was measured on the sounding line. The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain" ("twain" is an archaic term for two). "By the mark twain" meant "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two fathoms"

Answer 5

i'm sorry to declare this, yet why on earth are you writing approximately an author none of whose works you have examine? And whilst is that this paper due? If the respond is "sometime next semester," i might advise you to get immersed staggering away in the works of the guy who could be u.s.'s excellent author. listed right here are those i might advise first: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson (If Twain hadn't written Huckleberry Finn, this e book could be seen his masterpiece), and the fast thoughts "the distinguished leaping Frog of Calaveras County" and "the guy Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," it would additionally help to examine a recognized biography of Twain. Justin Caplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain is a very stable one, yet some time constraints might make it had to examine a shorter, extra straightforward one despite in case you examine the novels and thoughts first or the biography,. you will possibly spot info in one that reflect the different. base line: Twain replaced right into a real cynic. maximum of his writing reflects the perception that folk are basically no stable, yet one won't be in a position to help feeling for them and getting in contact with their issues besides. basically look ahead to that approach in each and every artwork of his which you examine. Now if that paper is due next week, ought to you set up to seize mono between now and then?

Answer 6

Mark Twains birth name was Samuel Clements.

Answer 7

Q: Mark Twain said "One of the most striking differences between a cat and this is that a cat has only nine lives."
A: What is a lie?

Answer 8

Q) There are two other ''Pen Names'' that Samuel Clemens used before Mark Twain, name one.

A) "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass" or "Josh".

Answer 9

Where did Mark Twain get his psuedonym? (He worked on a barge on the Mississipi 'marking twain,' which meant he let a weight down into the water, marked the twine at water level when the weight rested on the riverbed, and this told him how much clearance the bottom of the barge had). Good luck!

Answer 10

Ask about his lifelong dream.

"Throughout his life Clemens occasionally had recurring, emotional and profoundly touching dreams which he wrote were real. He recounted these dreams in the short story My Platonic Sweetheart. The dreams were about a young woman in the dream plane of existence, whom he loved, and who loved him in return. In all the dreams, regardless of Clemens' waking age, they both appeared to be about 15 years old. The dreams appeared to have a timeless continuity, that is, even though several waking years might have passed between meetings, in the dream world there seemed to have passed little time. Their physical appearance was different each time, the names they called each other were different, and in a couple of the dreams she died, but none of this seemed to be the slightest impediment to their continuing loving relationship each time they met."