Statistics for 20th Century Battleships and Battlecruisers

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The battleship Bismarck sunk which British ship in May 1941?	Hood	94%
Which US battleship was destroyed in a violent explosion in the attack on Pearl Harbour?	Arizona	83%
What does a battlecruiser sacrifice to increase its speed?	Armor	83%
Which two British capital ships formed Force Z in 1941?	Prince of Wales	73%
What was the only class of British battleship to mount 16 inch guns?	Nelson	68%
While not actually battleships, which class of German ship was referred to as 'pocket battleships' by the British?	Deutschland	63%
	Repulse	62%
Which Japanese battleship survived the war, only to be sunk in a nuclear weapons test?	Nagato	61%
Cruiser HMS Jamaica may have finished off which battleship with torpedoes?	Scharnhorst	61%
Washington was the sister of which US Battleship?	North Carolina	59%
The French Dunkerque class was succeeded by which class of battleship?	Richelieu	59%
Which Italian battleship was sunk by Fritz-X guided bombs in 1943?	Roma	59%
Designer George Thurston helped to design which class of battlecruiser for a foreign power?	Kongo	58%
What was the name of the third planned Yamato-class battleship, converted into an aircraft carrier?	Shinano	52%
HMS Hood was the only ship built of which class of battlecruiser?	Admiral	51%
The battle of Surigao Strait was the second and final battleship vs battleship engagement in the Pacific. Where did the first take place?	Guadalcanal	42%
What is the name of the first battlecruiser ever built?	Invincible	41%
Which Japanese battleship was sunk by gunfire in Surigao Strait on October 25 1944?	Yamashiro	37%
The Bismarck class was to be succeeded by which class?	H-Class	28%
After a refit in 1942, what did the German battleship Tirpitz have added that the Bismarck never did?	Torpedo tubes	24%
What was the name of the Japanese naval program to expand the battleship fleet in the early 20th Century?	eight eight	13%