NAUTICAL TRIVIA QUIZ

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1 NAUTICAL TRIVIA QUIZ # Word Definition 1 The Sea Hunters This TV series is based on Clive Cussler's best selling non fiction book 2 Green The aid to navigation on your right or starboard side when entering a harbour is this colour 3 Dragonboat racing First produced as a demonstration sport at EXPO,Vancouver World's Fair in Bowline Best knot to use when putting a loop in the end of a line 5 Paul Watson Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society based in Vancouver

2 6 Rainbow Warrior The name of a series of ships operated by Greenpeace 7 Ebb tide The phase of the tide between high water and the succeeding low water 8 Mr. Smee Captain Hook s first mate 9 Compass deviation The angular difference between magnetic north and the reading on your boat's compass 10 St. Roch This RCMP vessel was built in 1928 and spent 20 years as a floating police detachment in Canada s Arctic. It now resides at the Vancouver Maritime Museum 11 Counter clockwise. North of the equator, low pressure system rotates this way 12 Christopher Columbus The Santa Maria was the flagship for this Explorer 13 Relative bearing the angular difference between the bow of your boat and the direction of a Line of Position (bearing). The angle is measured in degrees from the bow of your boat in a clockwise direction through 360º. 14 Sheet bend A knot (or bend) used to tie two differently sized lines together 15 Marlinspike This type of seamanship is the art of tying proper marine knots and making line splices 16 Freeboard the distance from the waterline up to the gunwale (deck edge) of your boat. 17 Ohm A unit of resistance in an electrical circuit. It was named after the German scientist, of the same name, who is credited with recognizing it. 18 Draft The depth at which your boat sits in the water determines how much water your boat "draws". 19 Compass rose A 360 circle, in 1 increments, printed on a chart 20 Taken down a peg An old expression: If a senior officer handed over his command to a junior then the flag would have to be flown in a subordinate position 21 Fly by night A large square sail used downwind or on a reach that could be used easily and quickly

3 22 Scuttlebutt A barrel with a hole in used to hold water that sailors would drink from 23 Blazer A snappy blue garment worn by officers and made famous by a certain ship 24 Brass monkey An expression used to describe very cold weather: Cold enough to freeze the balls off a (fill in the blanks) 25 Hijack The harlot s call to the sailor after the first embrace, then she hit him with a lead filled handbag and he was dragged off to be sold to a ship in need of crew 26 Halyard A rope that is used to hoist a sail 27 Binge A sailor who had cleaned out a cask of rum had this: it also means to rinse or clean out in ancient mariner terms 28 Catamaran A vessel with two hulls 29 Chew the fat In the days when brine was added to barrels of meat, it had a hardening effect on the fat. It was still edible but it took considerable chewing, meaning to talk endlessly 30 Pieces of eight Spanish coins that became the common currency of pirates 31 The Spray Joshua Slocam s vessel that he sailed on to solo circumnavigate the world 32 The Louis Vuitton Cup A boat must first win this race to challenge for the America s Cup 33 Call me Ishmael The opening sentence of Melville s Moby Dick 34 Mate Companion, or person who shared your hammock 35 Cleat A stationary device used to secure a rope aboard a vessel 36 Press gangs A group of sailors who recruited crew members for their ship, usually by violent means 37 Blockade runners Ships that supplied Confederate ports during the American Civil War 38 Jolly Roger The black and white pirate flag with skull and crossbones

4 39 The bends Decompression sickness 40 Citrus fruit Food that was used to prevent scurvy on long sea voyages 41 Gulfstream The warm ocean current that flows northward along the east coast of North America 42 Sixty Amount of minutes in a degree in the latitude/longitude grid system 43 Collier A coal hauling ship 44 Andrea Doria Famous wreck visited by divers off Nantucket 45 Grog Old time sailors got a daily ration of this watered down rum 46 Jack Sparrow Fictional character played by Johnny Depp in the 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean 47 Bay of Fundy Body of water with the world s greatest tide range 48 Electrolysis Chemical process that allows certain metals to deteriorate in the presence of salt water and an electric current 49 Sable Island Island off the coast of Nova Scotia known as the graveyard of ships 50 Loran The navigation system in the US that preceded GPS 51 Bulkheads Transverse walls that divide a ship into compartments and usually water tight to avoid flooding 52 Founder When a vessel fills with water and sinks 53 Red The colour of port lights 54 Hawser Large rope or cable used to tow a ship or secure it to a dock or mooring 55 Lusitania British passenger steamer sunk by a German u boat off the Irish coast in 1915 that lost over 1,200 lives 56 Today s the day Phrase repeated by world famous treasure hunter Mel Fisher to his diving crew every morning

5 57 Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot s famous song about this Lake Superior shipwreck 58 Halifax In 1917, two ships collided in this Canadian port that resulted in more than 2,000 fatalities 59 Pequod The vessel in Herman Melville s Moby Dick 60 Cptn. George Vancouver The first European to explore the inner waters of Burrard Inlet 61 Oilskin Foul weather gear worn by sailors 62 Mississippi The steamer Sultana sunk on this river in 1865, making it the worst shipwreck disaster in US history 63 St. Elmo's Fire The name given to the florid luminescence that sometimes runs up and around a ship's rigging 64 The Hunley The first submarine to ever sink another warship 65 Longitude Author David Sobel s title to his best selling book 66 Carpathia The ship that rescued Titanic s survivors 67 Horse latitudes A region where ships traveling to the New World were often stranded and crew were forced to kill these onboard animals to preserve water supplies. 68 Doldrums An area that is known for its lack of winds, trapping sailing vessels for days or weeks. Hurricanes originate in this region 69 Stan Rogers Canadian Singer songwriter popularized sea shanties 70 Ripple Rock Rock that lurked below the surface at Seymour Narrows just north of Campbell River and destroyed by dynamite