Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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The U.S. Navy has 11 of this type of ship, equal to all other countries combined | Aircraft carrier | 93%
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Place in Hawaii where the Pacific Fleet is based | Pearl Harbor | 93%
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Blockbuster 1986 film about a school for Navy aviators | Top Gun | 88%
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Navy unit that killed Osama Bin Laden | SEAL Team Six | 87%
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Famous 1942 victory over the Japanese, called the turning point of the Pacific Theater | Battle of Midway | 81%
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President who served in the Navy, commanding PT-109 | John F. Kennedy | 77%
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What John Paul Jones supposedly said in 1779 when the British asked him to surrender | I have not yet begun to {fight}! | 76%
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Country that was forcibly opened to world trade in 1854 in part because of Commodore Matthew Perry | Japan | 69%
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Virginia-class vessels are this type of ship | Submarine | 63%
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Lowest rank of commissioned officer in the Navy (hint: starts with E) | Ensign | 61%
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City in Maryland home to the U.S. Naval Academy | Annapolis | 60%
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Official fight song of the Naval Academy, composed in 1906 | {Anchors} Aweigh | 56%
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Name one of the two Presidents to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy | Theodore Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 54%
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City in Virginia home to the Atlantic Fleet | Norfolk | 53%
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Nickname of the USS Constitution, the world's oldest ship still afloat | Old {Ironsides} | 51%
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Name one of the five star admirals from WWII | William Leahy | Ernest King | Chester Nimitz | William Halsey Jr. | 46%
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First ironclad ship in the U.S. Navy - it battled the Merrimack during the Civil War | USS {Monitor} | 39%
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Nickname of the U.S. fleet which traveled around the world from 1907–1909 to display American naval power | Great {White} Fleet | 33%
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