Thursday, March 17, 2011

Question 1053

Question from Sukanto:

X is a famous American author of short stories and novels, and the first person to apply a patent for the periscope. He is best known for his short novel Y, whose main plot is said to have striking similarities to a disaster that happened fourteen years after the book was written, thus being the subject of discussion for many supernatural theorists and the like.



Id X and Y, and the disaster.




Answer: X is Morgan Robertson, and the novel is titled "Futility", also known as " The Wreck Of The Titan " it has an uncanny resemblance to the Titanic's sinking.

18 Answers:

wheelsandwings said...

X:Morgan Robertson
Y:Futility
sinking of the Titanic

Archimonde said...

X- Morgan Robertson
Y- Futility
The disaster is the sinking of the Titanic

Aditya said...

X is Moragan Andrew Robertson
Y is "Wreck of the Titan"
Disaster is the "Sinking of the Titanic"

Aditya said...

Correction.
Y is 'Futility'.

Rahul Varma said...

X-Morgan Andrew Robertson
Y-Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan
Disaster of couse it shuld be the Titanic.........

Siddarth Pai said...

morgan roberston wrote futility about how the titan sank
mirrors the sinking of the titanic

$!d said...

x-Morgan andrew robertson
y-futility/the wreck of the titan
z-sinking of the ship RMS titanic

Qqsachin said...

X-Morgan Robertson
Y-Sinking of Titanic..

Saswat said...

Morgan Robertson
The novel is Futility & its the Titanic Disaster

Sarang Ramakrishnan said...

X - Morgan Robertson
Y - Wreck of the Titan

Titanic Disaster

Unknown said...

Morgan Andrew Robertson
the novel is titan
and the incident is sinking o f titanic

Unknown said...

morgan andrew robertson(X)

the book is wrech of the titan(Y)

the incident was the tragedy of the titanic(disaster)

Prashanth Annamreddi said...

Author-Morgan robertson
Book-Titan
Sinking of the Titanic

Matthew(M.A.Thai) said...

Morgan Robertson
Futility

the sinking of titanic

Anonymous said...

X is Morgan Robertson
Y is Futity
The disaster is Titanic ship Incident

Aditya D said...

X is Morgan Robertson
and Y is his
fictional novel The Wreck of the Titan; or, Futility(1898)

Unknown said...

Morgan Robertson

Aviral Shrivastava said...

Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson.

The sinking of Titanic