Compléter Around the World in 80 Days - Fill in the BlanksVersion en ligne Test your knowledge of the classic adventure novel by filling in the missing words from Around the World in 80 Days. par natasja bax 1 Phileas circumnavigate Verne set wager valet employed published Jules Fogg Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer , first in French in 1872 . In the story , of London and his newly French Passepartout attempt to the world in 80 days on a of £20 , 000 by his friends at the Reform Club . 2 upscale strict reticence upstanding surrounds Phileas Fogg is an English gentleman who spends his days playing whist , a card game , with his friends at the Reform Club , and spends his nights alone in his large townhome on Saville Row in London . Fogg has no wife and no children and mostly keeps to himself . An air of mystery Fogg wherever he goes because of his extreme . Fogg follows a routine every day . 3 employment scolding shortly synchronized fired Every clock and watch he owns is down to the second . Fogg fires his servant and Jean Passepartout , a Frenchman , arrives after , looking for and Fogg hires him on the spot . Passepartout had been looking for a quieter life after being by his former employer for him for being drunk . 4 advances piques disguised probably remarks plenty overhear That morning Fogg and his friends news that a robber as a gentleman has stolen 55 , 000 pounds from the Bank of England . One of the members that the robber is long gone , since the world is so large and there are of places to hide . This comment Fogg ? s interest . Fogg says the world is no longer so big . He says that it is now possible to travel across the world in eighty days due to modern in transportation . 5 emboldens collect wager scoff daring Fogg ? s friends at him , which him to make a : He bets 20 , 000 pounds , all the money he has in the bank , that he can travel around the world in eighty days . The men accept his wager and agree to find him at the Reform Club , in the same room , at the same time , eighty days later , on December 21 at 8 : 45 p . m . or they will the bet .