* The "Jules Verne" clue is suppose to reaffirm to contestants that they were on the right track:
The competition between the Paris and Greenwich meridians is a plot element in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", published just before the international decision in favor of the British one.
* The "Jules Verne" clue is suppose to reaffirm to contestants that they were on the right track:
The competition between the Paris and Greenwich meridians is a plot element in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", published just before the international decision in favor of the British one.