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Maritime Disasters Quiz - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 180 times
- The average score is 8 of 20
Answer Stats
| Year | What happened? | Casualties | Naval Construction | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | This ship collides with an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks. | 1,514 | RMS Titanic | 92%
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| 1588 | This fleet of 130 ships is defeated while trying to attack England | c. 20,000 | Spanish {Armada} | 64%
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| 1915 | This British ocean liner sinks in only 18 minutes off the Southern Irish coast | 1,198 | RMS Lusitania | 59%
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| 2012 | A reckless captain strikes an underwater rock off the Tuscan island of Giglio | 32 | Costa Concordia | 54%
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| 1989 | This notorious oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Its oil spill kills at least 250,000 animals | n/a | Exxon Valdez | 50%
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| 1941 | Almost half of all the casualties of the Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in the sinking of this battleship | 1,177 | USS Arizona | 49%
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| 1917 | This largest man-made explosion happens in a Nova Scotia city | 1,950 | {Halifax} Explosion | 42%
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| 1984 | A Soviet captain tries to deliver this submarine to the United States, followed by a "hunt" by the Soviet navy | n/a | Red October | 41%
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| 1898 | The sinking of this U.S. battleship precipitates the Spanish-American War | 261 | USS Maine | 41%
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| 2000 | This Russian submarine sinks in the Barents Sea. The Government of Russia was criticized a lot for its hesitant involvement. | 118 | Kursk | 40%
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| 1994 | A leaky bow let this ferry sink on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm | 852 | Estonia | 31%
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| 2010 | This drilling rig explodes and spills oil into the Gulf of Mexico | 31 | Deepwater Horizon | 30%
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| 1916 | This hospital ship, to this day still the largest ocean liner lying on the sea floor, is bombed in the Aegean Sea | 30 | HMHS Britannic | 30%
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| 2006 | This ocean liner capsizes after being hit by a monster wave on New Year's Eve | n/a | Poseidon | 27%
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| 1945 | The sinking of this German ship marks the largest loss of life in a single ship | 9,343 | Wilhelm Gustloff | 24%
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| 1865 | This Mississippi side-wheel steamboat, carrying freed soldiers of the Union, catches fire | c. 1,500 | Sultana | 19%
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| 1914 | This ship sinks following a collision on Saint Lawrence River, making it the deadliest peacetime naval disaster in Canadian history | 1,012 | Empress of Ireland | 18%
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| 1987 | The sinking of this Philippine ferry marks the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history | 4,386 | Doña Paz | 17%
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| 2014 | This Korean ferry, carrying 325 high school students, sinks | 306 | Sewol | 15%
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| 1904 | The city of New York witnesses its worst disaster (until 2001) when this steamboat catches fire in the East River | 1,021 | General Slocum | 13%
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