Answers to the cave-fiction quiz posted Sunday night.
1. a. Victor Appleton (pseudonym for Howard Garis) in "Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice." Tom Swift moored his airship in a natural ice bubble in the arctic.
2. g. H. P. Lovecraft, in "At the Mountains of Madness." Blind albino penguins inhabit ancient underground ruins.
3. f. The ballhog is the analog of the balrog in the Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkien's ring trilogy.
4. h. In Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," the balrog was a nasty monster inhabiting the caverns of Morea.
5. d. In Dante's "Inferno," the Giants and Titans surround the lowest circle of hell, in which Satan is frozen in ice (canto 31).
6. c. Von Daniken doesn't admit his "The Gold of the Gods" is fiction, and you can believe he really found an imperishable library written on metal sheets in Cueva de Los Tayos, Ecuador, if you want to.
7. i. In H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine," the Morlocks are the working class of the future, evolved to labor underground.
8. b. Tatou (French for armadillo) is the name of the atomic-powered mechanical mole in Casteret's novel "Mission Underground" ("Mission Centre Terre").
9. e. This is the White Rabbit in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," of course. C. L. Dodgson is better known as Lewis Carroll.
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