1. What was the title of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's 1922 book about an expedition he made with Captain Scott?

   1. The Heart of Whiteness

   2. The Worst Journey in the World

   3. Blizzard Be Damned

   4. Towards Terra Nova

2. Which character begins Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with an account of a voyage to the Arctic?

   1. Victor Frankenstein

   2. Captain Walton

   3. Henry Clerval

   4. Chay Blyth

3. In his poem Antarctica, the Northern-Irish poet Derek Mahon details the last moments of Captain Oates. How many times is the quotation, "just going outside and may be some time" repeated?

   1. Twice

   2. Four times

   3. Five times

   4. Seven times

4. Edgar Allan Poe's only completed novel tells the story of a doomed voyage to the south pole. What is its title?

   1. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

   2. The City in the Sea

   3. A Descent into the Maelström

   4. Southward Ho!

5. What throws the hero of Ian McEwan's novel Solar into a panic in the Arctic?

   1. A polar bear attack on his bivouac

   2. A chapstick down his trousers

   3. A frostbitten nose

   4. Getting caught in a blizzard

6. How do the creatures known as the Elder Things survive in the Antarctic in HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness?

   1. On six-foot penguins

   2. On polar bears

   3. Stealing from explorers

   4. By eating the beings they created, the Shoggoths

7. Beryl Bainbridge's 1995 novel The Birthday Boys is about Scott's expedition to the Antarctic. From whose point of view is the story told?

   1. Robert Scott and Edward Wilson's

   2. Taff Evans's

   3. Lawrence Oates and Henry Bowers'

   4. All five

8. Which polar explorer's daughter, known as the snow baby, has written a book about the women behind the polar heroes?

   1. Sarah Shackleton

   2. Kari Herbert

   3. Selina Scott

   4. IC White

9. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how is the ice described as the mariner reaches the Arctic?

   1. "Tracks of shining white"

   2. "White as leprosy"

   3. "Green, and blue and white"

   4. "Green as emerald"

10. In Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866), what is discovered in the Arctic and named after Hatteras?

    1. A mountain range

    2. An active volcano

    3. A Fjord

    4. A cavern

Solutions

1:B, 2:B, 3:B, 4:A, 5:B, 6:A, 7:D, 8:B, 9:D, 10:B

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   You've frozen. We're sending a team of emergency librarians to rescue you from dangerous ignorance

2. 6 and above.

   Not bad, and it's hard going. But you weren't quite ready for the expedition. Regroup, and set out again.

3. 10 and above.

   You're practically Robert Falcon Scott! Without the dying.