SUMMER 2006 • PAGE 11
Here’s your chance to test your nautical trivia knowledge with some
questions from the fun new game available at ASA.com!
answers are listed below
1. “It’s more like a war with everything but the bullets”
was a phrase used by which winning skipper to describe
9. Name the Portuguese navigator who explored the Long
the America’s Cup race?
Island Sound while sailing from the Hudson River
a) Dennis Connor
eastward to Block Island in 1524.
b) Ted Turner
10. For the first time in 132 years the
c) Bill Koch
US lost the America’s cup to which
2. Who was the highest ranking officer of
Australian boat?
the Titanic to survive?
a) Gretel
a) 1
st
Officer Murdock
b) Australia II
c) Kookaburra II
b) 2
nd
Officer Lightoller
11. Name the captain of the U.S.
c) 4
th
Officer Boxhall
Navy frigate Chesapeake who
3. In World War II, German submarines pleaded as he was dying, “Don’t
attacked convoys in groups called: give up the ship!”
a) wolfpacks a) John Paul Jones
b) panzergrups b) Stephen Decatur
c) blitz teams c) James Lawrence
4. To win the right to defend the America’s 12. A tidal atlas has how many
Cup, a boat must first win what trophy? charts?
5. Name the first European to view the
a) 6
Pacific from its American shore.
b) 9
a) Vasco Nunez de Balboa
c) 12
b) Francis Drake 13. In 1720, the first yacht club
c) Ferdinand Magellan was established in which town?
6. Name the founding member of the New
a) Cork, Ireland
York Yacht Club who owned the boat that won
b) Edinburgh, Scotland
the first America’s Cup.
c) Whitehaven, England
a) John Cox Stevens 14. Name the only American super
b) George Schuyler liner that won the Blue Riband with an Atlantic
c) Levi Strauss crossing time of 3 days, 10 hours, and 40 minutes.
7. Name the Portuguese explorer who discovered and
named the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.
tates nited S eland 14. SS U r k, I or 13. a) C
a) Bartolomeu Dias
ence 12. c) 12 ames Lawr aptain J ustralia II 11. c) C A
b) Giovani Caboto
errazano 10. V anni v io y 9. G aur atthew M 8. b) Lt. M
c) Vasco Nunez de Balboa
tolomeu Dias ar ens 7. a) B tev x S o ohn C alboa 6. a) J B
unez de asco N V up 5. a) en C itiz The C olfpacks 4. W
8. Who produced the first Winds and Currents Charts in
ightoller 3. a) och 2. b) 2nd Officer L ill K 1. c) B
the year 1847?
a) Admiral Fancis Baufort
ers … nsw A
b) Lt. Matthew Maury
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