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From: dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Douglas Boom)
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Subject: Quiz answers
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From: dougb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Douglas Boom)


Here is the answers to the last quiz.  The amount of replies was low compared
to the first and several people scored near perfect.  As every one suggested
I have put the questions first then the answers.

1.  Name the only Battleship ever to torpedo another battleship.
	
	HMS Rodney torpedoed the Bismarck during there battle.
	The Torpedoes had little results (the Britsh said they hit, but
	the Germans said it was the scuttling charges going off)

2.  What was the propulsion system for the submarine CSS Hunley?

	Eight very brave (or stupid) men.

3.  What happened to the German High fleet after the end of World War One?
	(A majority, not the couple that survived until WW2)

	Scuttled at Scapa flow.  The British placed the ships in strategic
	(ie, anti-sub) positions then scuttled them.

4.  Name the German ships involved in the Battle of Coronel.(in WW1)

	Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Lepzig, Numberg, Dresden 

5.  Every knows about the four Iowas that are around today but what
	where the names of the other two that did not get spared?
	(Hint: the four still around are the Wisconsin, New Jersey, Missouri,
	and Iowa)

	Illinois, Kentucky

6.  Name any of the proposed Montana class battleship (besides the Montana!)

	New Hampshire, Ohio, Maine, Louisiana (not in any order)

7.  Name the largest plane to land on an aircraft carrier without using
	a arresting hook? (It took off with out using the catapult either!)

	C-130 Hercules (saw the footage on WINGS!.  very impressive)

8.  The General Belgrano was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7,1941,
	what was its name then?

	USS Phoenix

9.  After its duel with the Bismarck, the crew onboard the King George V 
	found what unusual item on board?

	An unexploded 15inch shell. (They found it the center of the boat by
	a bulkhead) 

10. What happened to the HMS Courageous class battleships?

	Converted to Aircraft carriers.

11. Name another ship in the HMS Hood class.

	HMS Anson, HMS Howe, and HMS Rodney.  All three were cancelled.

12. What was the code name for the "channel dash" by the Scharnhorst,
	Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen?

	Operation Cerberus (the three headed dog that guards hell)

13. What was the original name of the CV-16 USS Lexington?
 
	USS Cabot

14. What country did Argentina get her aircraft carriers from?

	The United Kingdom through other parties but the ships were built by
	the Brits.  (Argentina also received two HMS Sheffield class
	frigates before the war)

15. How many Yamato class battleships were either completed or under
	construction at the beginning of WW2?

	Four, the Yamato, Musashi and Shinano, and a hull (Number 111) which
	was scrapped in 1943 while only 30% complete.

16. Name the Italian Aircraft carrier built from the passenger liner Roma
	during WW2?

	Aquila (it was impounded by the Germans and never completely fitted out)

17. What was the name of BB-1?

	USS Indiana

18. What was the hull designator of the USS Alaska?

	CB-1 (more fire to the Alaska:battlecruiser or large CA?)

19. What was the fate of the USS Saratoga (CV-3)?

	She was sunk during the Bikini Atoll tests.  She was a credit to her
	builders, she took two blasts to sink.

20. Where did the guns from HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous finally end up?

	On board HMS Vanguard.

That's all folks, as usual, please mail all responses to me, not the moderator

Doug
AKA Douglas Boom
dougb@prism.cs.orst.edu

Special thanks to 
Hal Heydt for question 8.