Clive Cussler Trivia

1. Who did Prevlov suspect was behind the plot to trap him?

From Quiz Raise the Titanic- Southby; Pt. 1

Answer: Margonian

After the shootout with Fergus's men, Prevlov had some time to reflect on where he was at. He then suspected Margonian was slowly trying to draw him into a trap. He would later learn that Margonian was actually a double for the real one, and that this one was working for the United States CIA.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase" Pt. 5

Answer: chinook

As Cromwell's train was being pursued by Bell, Carr, who was a hostage on Cromwell's train, explained to Abner Weed that it looked like a chinook was forming. When Abner inquired about what a chinook was, Carr explained that it was a major storm usually of winds strong enough to blow locomotives off the tracks. He also warned that the ferry at Wood's Bay would not be likely to go across the lake with the seas being rough. Abner, undeterred, said they were going across the lake one way or the other.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase" Pt. 4

Answer: take Cromwell's sister into custody

When Cromwell's private Pullman pulled into San Jose for water and coal, Bell went into the dispatcher's office and sent a wire to take Margaret Cromwell into custody as an accomplice. Cromwell was not too pleased and exploded at Bell for doing this. In his rant, he nearly incriminated himself.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase" Pt. 3

Answer: Rolls Royce

The car that Cromwell and his sister rode in to the Barbary Coast was a Rolls Royce Brougham. The Rolls was made in London by a coach company by the name of Barker. It had a 6-cylinder 30 horsepower engine in it. It had an open compartment in the front for the driver and an enclosed compartment in the back for the passengers, divided in between by a window to provide privacy for the rear compartment. Cromwell could communicate with his driver by a "speaking tube" which, in 1906, was the forerunner of the intercom system we know today.

From Quiz Valhalla Rising

Answer: Dirk Pitt

Dirk Pitt is the main character of this and many of Cussler's popular novels, including "Atlantis Found" (1999) and "Flood Tide" (1997). Kurt Austin is another Clive Cussler character, who can be seen in the "NUMA Files" series, which Cussler co-writes with Paul Kemprecos. Juan Cabrillo is the main character for the "Oregon Files" series by Cussler, and Jack Ryan is a main character in several of Tom Clancy's novels.

From Quiz Night Probe

Answer: Charles Sarveux

'Sarveux looked upon himself as another Lincoln, fighting to preserve unity and keep his house from dividing'. As this quote suggests, Canada is a nation in turmoil at the beginning of the novel, with Quebec on the verge of a split from the rest of the country. Charles Sarveux tries to prevent this. He is described as having sharp cut facial features and blue eyes in the novel.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase" part II

Answer: 5

In Salt Lake City, Ruskin killed five people in the bank. That number consisted of a teller, a woman depositing money, the manager, the manager's secretary and a security guard. Ruskin told the manager, at first, that he was a well-respected manager of the Hudson River Bank and that he was opening up some new banks in Phoenix and Reno. However, this would've been the robbery that Ruskin goofed up on.

From Quiz "Raise the Titanic!" - Book or Movie

Answer: book

In the movie, Dana was a reporter for the Washington Star. This role was played by actress Ann Archer. Dana was accused of leaking the Cecilian Project to the Russians by letting it out in the newspapers and on the television. She didn't know what her husband was up to until this time and Gene assumed that Dirk Pitt told her through an alleged affair.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic-The Titanic-part 3

Answer: Amanda

The hurricane was called Amanda and it had curved northward and was going to endanger the salvage crews any day now. She was packing winds of 180+ mph and was moving at 40 mph to the North.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic--The Titanic--part 2

Answer: Rudy Gunn

When Pitt's helicopter landed on the Capricorn, he noticed that Gunn had a solemn expression on his face. When asked, Gunn said that one of the submersibles was trapped on the wreck below with the men inside. It didn't look good.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic--The Titanic--Part 1

Answer: Jorgey Antonov

Admiral Sloyuk called this emergency conference to discuss the U.S. wanting to bring up the Titanic. With the leaks that are coming into their government, they have quite a bit of information to go on.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic--The Black Abyss--part 1

Answer: Sappho I

As this section starts off, the Sappho I is cruising under the sea and just above the sea floor. There are six men inside this submersible, which is known as the largest one in the world.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic-The Coloradans (part 2)

Answer: Austin

When Seagram arrived at the widow's home in Leisure World, he was surprised to find that Mrs. Hobart was now Mrs. Austin. In fact, she had been married to a Bertrum Austin for 62 years. Seagram asked her whether or not she had contacted the war department and she said she had written them several times. But, the government kept insisting on send her her widow's pension. Who was she to argue?

From Quiz The Oregon Files

Answer: Oregon

The series is named after this ship.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic (The Book)--Cecilian Project

Answer: 5'2"

In the epilogue, it does not yet mention the man's name or even what ship he is on. It does, though, mention that the man lying in the stateroom is 5'2" and is a few days shy of his birthday. The epilogue sets up the book for the rest of the adventure.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's Fictional Works

Answer: The Mediterranean Caper

Also known as "Mayday!", this book was published in 1973. Though it was published first, it is actually the second book in the Dirk Pitt adventure series.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "Sahara"

Answer: Benin

In the book, Benin's navy consist of only two gunboats and a helicopter.

From Quiz "Trojan Odyssey" by Clive Cussler, Part 2

Answer: Loren Smith, a Congresswoman

Loren Smith met the group at the airport. She was driving Dirk's car, a 1921 Marmon town car. The car was dusty rose in color, had a V-16 engine, and was one of only 390 ever built.

From Quiz "Trojan Odyssey" by Clive Cussler, Prologue/Part 1

Answer: Both "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"

Although Cussler often uses a tale of a long-ago shipwreck as the basis for his prologues, in "Trojan Odyssey" he chose to recount events from both Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey".

From Quiz Raise the Titanic- Southby; Pt. 1

Answer: she was alive and well

As Kemper and the President were awaiting word from the Titanic, Kemper received some good news that Dana was alive and well and that she was onboard the Titanic.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase" Pt. 5

Answer: hay wagon

As Cromwell's train was in sight, Bell's train unfortunately met up with a hay wagon crossing the tracks. The driver of the wagon possibly misjudged how fast Bell's train was moving and slowly plodded across the road. The train tried to stop, but it was too late. The wagon was destroyed in a thousand pieces, but the driver and his horses survived.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase" Pt. 3

Answer: Faro

After Cromwell danced with Marian Morgan for a time, she sat down to rest. Cromwell politely asked if it would be okay for him to go and play a few hands of Faro. In truth, he was needing to talk with Red Kelly, owner of Spider Kelly's saloon where the Cromwells had gone for the evening.

From Quiz Valhalla Rising

Answer: Vikings

As many of Clive Cussler's novels do, this novel includes something from history - in particular for this story, the Norsemen of Norway. There is some evidence that there has been Viking contact in North America during the early part of the last millennium, but L'Anse Aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland, Canada is the only confirmed settlement. Even this the Norsemen quit after a few years, and no permanent settlements were founded. Other temporary settlements may have existed, as told in Norse Sagas, but Newfoundland appears to have been the main area.

From Quiz Night Probe

Answer: Navy Lieutenant Commander

'The neatly tailored uniform of a navy lieutenant commander adorned a svelte body measuring six feet from manicured toenails to the roots of her naturally ash-blonde hair'. Heidi is central to the early plot taking shape in the novel. She happens upon mention of the North American Treaty through her own study and this introduces Dirk Pitt, the main protagonist, to the plot. Heidi finds herself intimate with both Pitt and a man known now as Brian Shaw in the novel.

From Quiz Clive Cussler's "The Chase"

Answer: 1906

The story actually starts in June of 1905, but the bulk of the book takes place in 1906. The book starts off in Bisbee Arizona with a man disguised as a drunk robbing and killing three people in its bank. The robber is known as the Butcher Bandit and he kills everyone inside so as to not be discovered.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic!- The Titanic; pt. 4

Answer: Ben Drummer

When Dana came to, she realized she was on board the Titanic and was amazed. Pitt and Sandecker decided she was well enough to interrogate and they proceeded to ask her how she became to be on the helicopter. After some questions, Pitt asked her what she remembered before she blacked out. She stated she remembered seeing a set of sharp-toed cowboy boots. Pitt told Sandecker later that they belonged to Ben Drummer. Pitt knew this when he and Giordino searched every cabin aboard the Sappho I in an attempt to find Henry Monk's killer.

From Quiz "Raise the Titanic!" - Book or Movie

Answer: movie

In the book, the miner's name was Joshua Hayes Brewster. Both Brewsters went down with the ship inside a vault, all for nothing. Both book and movie had Brewster saying, "Thank God for Southby" when he locked himself in the vault. This was a minor change in the names of the miners.

From Quiz Clive Cussler Mix

Answer: "Polar Shift"

In the novel, "Polar Shift", a state of the art cargo ship called the Southern Bell was sunk by a rogue wave which was thought to be over 110 ft. tall. Kurt Austin was the head of the Special Projects team of NUMA and set out to find out the cause of these rogue waves and monstrous, ship-eating whirlpools. He found that a group of anarchists were trying to prove some point by using equations by German scientist Laslo Kovach to cause a polar shift. Austin managed to stop the polar shift and destroyed the anarchists leaders, Tristan Margraves and Jordon Gant for good.

From Quiz The Characters of Cussler's Works

Answer: Admiral James Sandecker

He is the founder and leader uptil the time he leaves NUMA to run for Vice President of the United States at the end of the novel 'Trojan Odyssey'.

From Quiz Raise the Titanic-The Titanic-part 3

Answer: Thomas J Morse and Samuel R Wallace

The two tugs arrived to take the Titanic in tow. Sandecker tried to plead with their captains to head for safety after telling them of Hurricane Amanda's progress. The tug captains agreed to stay put and do the best they can.

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