dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (03/30/91)
From: dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU
I have made a quick (but hard) twenty question Naval warfare quiz
that may been interesting to post, just to stump our avid readers.
if you are interested, please reply and I will send the answers :)
thanks (i'm a big fan of the group)
dougb
AKA Douglas Boom
dougb@prism.cs.orst.edu
[ Please reply to Mr. Boom, NOT the list! --CDR]
A quiz to test your Naval Warfare Trivia.
Good Luck
1. What in naval history happened only on Feburary 9, 1945 and has never
official happened since then?
2. Name the third ship in the Yamato class.
3. Name any two of the aircraft carriers proposed and/or built by the
Germans before and during World War Two.
4. Name the first Sea Launched Ballistic missle.
5. When the Washington Naval treaty came into effect, two battleships under
construction were scraped and two more were built into carriers. Name
the two carriers.
6. The ship HMS Royal Williams was one of the longest lived ships ever made
in the history of ship building. How many years (+25/-25) did she serve?
7. Name the last British battleship.
8. Name the one of the Soviet Battleships under construction at the end of
World War Two.
9. After sinking the General Belgrano in the Falklands War, HMS Conqueror,
keeping in line with old Royal Navy traditions, flew what from her mast
upon her return to Faslane?
10. What was the U-boat U-234 carrying to Japan before it surrender to US
forces in New Hampshire?
11. His commands included HMS Agamemnon, HMS Captain, HMS Victory and HMS
Vanguard. He also loss his right lower fore arm, and the use of his
right eye. Name him.
12. He commanded the Japanese Grand Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.
13. The Third Reich's last head of state. Other titles included Grand Admiral
and the father of the wolf pack.
14. Name of the first generation of sonar as called by the Royal Navy.
15. Operation Coronet and Operation Olympic were the code names for the
naval invasion of what country?
16. Name any one Britsh ship sunk during the Falkland Islands War.
17. What was the other name of the CSS Virginia?
18. His most famous quote was "Damn the Torpedoes!"
19. A famous Scot naval "Pirate" who uttered the famous phrase "I have not
yet begun to fight!" Died in poverty in France, 1792.
20. Number of nuclear reactors in the USS Enterprise.