Statistics for Maritime Disasters Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 94 times
The average score is 8 of 20

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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%
1588	This fleet of 130 ships is defeated while trying to attack England	c. 20,000	Spanish {Armada}	67%
1915	This British ocean liner sinks in only 18 minutes off the Southern Irish coast	1,198	RMS Lusitania	64%
2012	A reckless captain strikes an underwater rock off the Tuscan island of Giglio	32	Costa Concordia	59%
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	56%
1941	Almost half of all the casualties of the Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in the sinking of this battleship	1,177	USS Arizona	52%
1898	The sinking of this U.S. battleship precipitates the Spanish-American War	261	USS Maine	48%
1917	This largest man-made explosion happens in a Nova Scotia city	1,950	{Halifax} Explosion	47%
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	44%
2000	This Russian submarine sinks in the Barents Sea. The Government of Russia was criticized a lot for its hesitant involvement.	118	Kursk	41%
2006	This ocean liner capsizes after being hit by a monster wave on New Year's Eve	n/a	Poseidon	32%
1994	A leaky bow let this ferry sink on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm	852	Estonia	30%
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%
2010	This drilling rig explodes and spills oil into the Gulf of Mexico	31	Deepwater Horizon	29%
1865	This Mississippi side-wheel steamboat, carrying freed soldiers of the Union, catches fire	c. 1,500	Sultana	19%
1945	The sinking of this German ship marks the largest loss of life in a single ship	9,343	Wilhelm Gustloff	19%
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	16%
1987	The sinking of this Philippine ferry marks the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history	4,386	Doña Paz	15%
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	14%
2014	This Korean ferry, carrying 325 high school students, sinks	306	Sewol	11%