What is "gargantua"

Gargantua is a solitaire card game that is basically a version of Klondike using two decks. It is also known as Jumbo in AisleRiot Solitaire (which is part of the GNOME Desktop).

Gargantua (1929 - November 1949) was a captive lowland gorilla who was famous in his lifetime and has been credited with saving the Ringling Brothers circus from bankruptcy. An acid scar on his face gave Gargantua a snarling, menacing expression, and the circus management attracted attention to him by emphasizing, in their publicity, his alleged hatred of humans. He was also claimed to be the largest gorilla in captivity.

Gargantua was captured as a baby in Africa, and was known as "Buddy" for years. After he was sold to Ringling Brothers by his previous owner, Gertrude Lintz, he was renamed, after François Rabelais's the giant character, to sound more frightening.

He had a "mate" named Toto, but apparently never showed any interest in her. She was nevertheless advertised by the circus as "Mrs Gargantua".

The film Buddy, starring Rene Russo, is very loosely based on the early life of Gargantua/Buddy and another of Mrs Lintz's gorillas, Massa.

Gargantua is a book by the French author François Rabelais.

Gargantua can also refer to:

• Gargantua (cave), a cave in Western Canada
• Gargantua (Half-Life), a creature from the computer game Half-Life
• Gargantua (gorilla) (1929 – 1949), gorilla in the Ringling Brothers Circus
• Gargantua (comics), a size-changing supervillain from Marvel Comics
• Gargantua River, a river in Ontario, Canada
• Gargantua (solitaire), a solitaire card game
• Gargantuas, a giant monster from the 1966 Japanese film War of the Gargantuas
• Gargantua, a 1998 television film
• Gargantua (bryozoan), an extinct genus of cheilostome bryozoan
• Gargantua, a fictional black hole in the 2014 science fiction film Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan

Gargantua (Edward Cobert) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Gargantua is a limestone cave located on the Andy Good Plateau in British Columbia, Canada. it has 6001 m of passages with a depth of 286 m. It contains the largest natural cavern in Canada at 290m long, 30m wide and 25m high.

In October 2002, a group of caving club students from W. R. Myers High School were trapped in the cave overnight, after failing to break through the waterfall exit.

Image:"Big Dipper" series of phreatic tubes,Gargantua cave, British Columbia.jpg|The Big Dipper Image:Waterfall_exit.JPG|The waterfall exit after breaking through the ice to exit in the fall