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Famous Ships - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 438 times
- The average score is 7 of 24
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Fluyt, carried pilgrims to Massachusetts in 1620 | Mayflower | 94%
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| Carried naturalist Charles Darwin on a voyage of scientific discovery in 1831 | HMS Beagle | 69%
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| Large passenger liner sunk in the North Atlantic by U-Boat in 1915 | RMS Lusitania | 69%
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| The crew of this ship mutinied in 1789 before sailing to Pitcairn Island | HMS Bounty | 66%
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| Galleon of Sir Francis Drake, completed a circumnavigation in 1580 | Golden Hind | 54%
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| Balsa wood raft, sailed across the Pacific in 1947 by Thor Heyerdahl | Kon Tiki | 48%
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| Flagship of Admiral Nelson, launched in 1765, oldest still-commissioned warship in the world | HMS Victory | 43%
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| Speedy tea clipper built in 1869, now a museum in Greenwich, London | Cutty Sark | 42%
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| Barque used on the first of Captain Cook's voyages of discovery, 1768-1771 | HMS Endeavour | 40%
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| US Battleship, sank in Havana harbour in 1898, precipitating the Spanish-American War | USS Maine | 38%
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| US brigantine, mysteriously found floating abandoned off the Azores in 1872 | Mary Celeste | 33%
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| War carrack of King Henry VIII, sank during the Battle of the Solent, 1545 | Mary Rose | 27%
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| First Union ironclad warship, nicknamed the "Yankee Cheesebox," delivered in 1862 | USS Monitor | 25%
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| First iron steamer to cross the Atlantic in 1845. Designed by Brunel, now a museum in Bristol (UK) | SS Great Britain | 15%
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| Carried Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton on a mission to the Antarctic 1901-1904 | RRS Discovery | 14%
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| Sailed with Franklin (above.) Both ships lost - found in 2016 near King William Island, Nunavut | HMS Terror | 13%
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| French frigate, wrecked off Africa in 1816, survivors cast adrift on a raft, painted by Gericault | Meduse | 13%
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| Shackleton's ship for his 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition | Endurance | 12%
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| Departed England in 1845 under Sir John Franklin in search of the North West Passage | HMS Erebus | 10%
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| Original name of Drake's ship (above) until re-named mid-voyage in 1578 | Pelican | 7%
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| Bronze-Age craft, constructed circa 1550 BC, named for place found in the English Channel | Dover Boat | 5%
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| Name of the state barge of the Doges of Venice from 1311-1798 | Bucentaur | 2%
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| Solar barge, built around 2500 BC for the funeral of an Egyptian Pharaoh | Khufu Ship | 2%
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| Viking Longship, built circa 320 AD, found in a Danish bog | Nydam Ship | 1%
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