Name the battleship that sailed from Bremerton, Washington to
Florida around South America to engage the Spanish Fleet in Cuba in 1898. (1 point)
What battleship was not a "battleship" when it was sunk at
Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? (2 points)
Only one pre-Dreadnought battleship exists today. Name it. (1 point)
Bonus: What is its role in history? (1 points)
What battleship bears the nickname "The Big Jay"? (1
point)
Name the two largest battleships ever built. (1 point each)
What is the only US Battleship not named for a State? (1 point)
What states have never had commissioned battleships/battlecruisers
named for them? (2 points each)
What battleship was known as the "Lone Queen of the
North"? (1 point)
The US entered the "battlecruiser" race late, after
"fast battleships" forced them to be reclassified as "large cruisers."
Name the six ships of this class, and the name of the two completed. (total of 8 points)
Name the only United States World War I battleship still afloat. (1
point)
Name the two Dreadnoughts sunk at sea by Japanese aircraft in early
December, 1941. (1 point each)
True or False: The "old battleships" (pre-Washington
treaty) never had a successful surface engagement with enemy battleships in World War II.
(1 point)
True or False: The "new battleships" (post-Washington
treaty) never had a surface engagement with enemy battleships in World War II. (1 point)
The USS Arizona was not deployed in England with the Grand Fleet in
World War I, unlike other US battleships. Why? (2 points)
On September 9th, 1943, a battleship was sunk by a guided missile.
Name the ship. (1 point) Bonus: Name the nation that launched the attack to sink her. (1
point)
Which nation completed the most battleships between 1-Sep-1939 and
2-Sep-1945? (1 point) Bonus question: Name them. (1 point each)
What battleship was nicknamed "McKinley's Bulldog"? (1
point) Bonus question: Why was she called a "bulldog"? (2 points)
What was the former battleship designation of Gunnery Training Ship
AG17? (2 points)
What was the former battleship designation of Gunnery Training Ship
EAG 128? (2 points)
What battleship was rushed into battle with the Bismarck when barely
complete? (1 point)
What battleship sank the Scharnhorst? (1 point)
What was the only battleship to get underway during the Pearl Harbor
attack? (1 point)
Name the battleships known as the "big five." (1 point
each)
True or false: It was not until the "second generation"
battleships of the North Carolina class that the US Navy had 16 inch guns in service. (1
point)
Name the three cruisers that engaged the Graf Spee, and damaged her
enough to result in her scuttling. (1 point each) Bonus: What was the main armament of
each? (1 point each correct answer)
Why were American battleships limited to a beam of 108 feet? (1
point)
The original USS Idaho (BB24) and USS Mississippi (BB23) were sold
to what country? (1 point) Bonus question: What happened to them? (1 point)
True or false: No American battleship has ever been lost at sea -
they were all sunk in port. (1 point)
Six weeks into the Second World War Britain lost one of her
battleships. Which one? (1 point) Bonus: How was she lost? (1 point)
How many battleships are on active duty with any navy anywhere in
the world today? (1 point)
Of all battleships built in the last hundred years, how many are
preserved as floating museums? (2 points) Bonus: Name them. (1 point each)
Where was the USS Missouri (BB63) anchored on September 2nd, 1945?
(1 point)
The Germans call the ships Deutschland, Admiral Scheer and Admiral
Graf Spee "Panzerschiff." What does this mean? (1 point) Bonus: And by what
diminutive nickname were they known to the allies? (1 point)
Six Panzerschiff were planned to mount two turrets with three eleven
inch guns each. Although all twelve turrets were completed, only three Panzerschiff were
completed. Where did the other six turrets end up? (1 point)
Four first world war Japanese battlecruisers were re-engineered
between the wars to emerge as fast battleships. Name them. (1 point each)
True or False: When the British battleship Hood blew up, broke in
half, and sank during the engagement with the Bismarck, this was the first time that a
British battlecruiser was lost so suddenly. (1 point)
What happened to the bulk of the German Navy's battleships after the
First World War? (1 point)
Name the French battleship sunk by allied gunfire after the fall of
France. (2 points)
Name the battleships engaged in Operation Desert Storm. (1 point
each)
Britain built three "oddball" battlecruisers with large
guns but very little armor. Named the Courageous, Furious, and Glorious, they were known
by what derisive nickname? (1 point) Bonus: How did they serve in the Second World War? (1
point) Additional Bonus: What became of the guns from the Courageous and Glorious? (1
point)
Name the two German pre-Dreadnoughts to see service in the Second
World War. (1 point each)
Two United States "Dreadnoughts" were designed before the
HMS Dreadnought, and construction began before the HMS Dreadnought, but were completed at
a leisurely pace. Therefore the HMS Dreadnought lent her name to the all big gun
battleship. What were the names of these two American pioneers? (1 point each)
What Spanish-American war veteran battleship was preserved as a
floating museum for a time, then reclaimed as "scrap metal" during World War II,
used as a dynamite barge to tow munitions to Guam, broke away for several weeks and
several hundred miles during a storm before being found, and was eventually scrapped in
Japan? (1 point)
