Season 29, Day 3 - "Wide World of Trivia"

It's Sea week, and today's quiz is inspired by the Sargasso Sea.

Sargasso Sea

The Sargasso Sea is an oval-shaped region of the Atlantic Ocean. Located east of Florida between the Azores and the West Indies, it is bounded by an ocean gyre (a circular system of currents), making it the world’s only “sea” with no land boundaries. The Sargasso Sea is known for the brown sargassum seaweed floating in it, from which it takes its name. In 1492, Christopher Columbus encountered the Sargasso Sea and wrote about its seaweed and his fears that it may trap his ship. The Sargasso Sea is also described in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. North American and European eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. The British Overseas Territory of Bermuda can be found on the western edge of the Sargasso Sea. The 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, telling the early life story of Mr. Rochester’s first wife Bertha Mason (also known as “the madwoman in the attic”).