Tossup
Description acceptable. Guests in this place are disturbed to learn their dinner is not really veal and pudding with cream. A studio’s Stage 3 was built to shoot the exteriors of this place, which is first found empty as its occupants march outside in a funeral procession. Forth Bridge inspired Harper Goff’s rivet- heavy design for this place, which became a template for the steampunk aesthetic despite using (*) nuclear energy. This place includes a golden organ on which its owner plays Bach’s Toccata and Fugue. A prisoner in this place befriends the seal Esmeralda and crafts a guitar to play “Whale of a Tale.” James Mason commands this place in an adventure film in which it is attacked by an animatronic giant squid. For 10 points, name or describe this central vehicle of a Disney adaptation of a novel by Jules Verne. ■END■
ANSWER: the Nautilus [or the submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; prompt on the submarine with “from what film?”]
= Average correct buzz position
Back to tossups