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Titanic ... or Lusitania?

The Titanic and the Lusitania are nowadays associated with enormous maritime disaster. Can you guess whether the following questions apply to the Titanic or the Lusitania?
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1. Which ship sunk after hitting an iceberg?
Lusitania sank after being torpedoed
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2. Which ship sunk in the 1910s?
Titanic sank on April 15, 1912
Lusitania sank on May 7, 1915
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3. Which ship had the United States as its destination for the final voyage?
Lusitania was heading towards Liverpool, England
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4. Which ship was a four-funnel ocean liner?
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5. Which ship was owned by the Cunard Line?
Titanic was owned by the White Star Line
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6. Which sinking occurred during daylight?
Lusitania: 14.10 - 14.28
Titanic: 23.40 - 02.20
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7. Which ship was built in Scotland?
Titanic was built in Northern Ireland
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8. Which ship did not have enough lifeboats to rescue all passengers?
After the Titanic catastrophe, it became mandatory to have as many lifeboats as needed to rescue all people.
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9. Which ship sailed under British flags?
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10. Which ship was a Royal Mail Ship (RMS)?
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11. Which sinking did cost more than a thousand lives?
Titanic: ca. 1,500 dead, Lusitania: ca. 1,200 dead
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12. The sinking of the Titanic took longer than the sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Lusitania only took 18 minutes
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13. Both captains perished in the respective disaster
Lusitania's captain William Thomas Turner died in 1933, 18 years after the catastrophe
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14. There are still survivors from either catastrophe today
The last Titanic survivor died in 2009; the last Lusitania survivor died in 2011
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15. Despite the Lusitania sinking only 18 miles off the coast, it took several hours for rescue boats to arrive
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