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Name the Ship (or Year)

Created by Pappy84

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Name the Ship or Year game quiz
"This quiz is about ships which took part in battles in the 20th century."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. I was the Flagship of Admiral Togo and took part in a famous battle in the Tsushima Srait.
    IJN Shikishima
    IJN Mikasa
    IJN Chikuma
    IJN Fuji


2. I was the first light German cruiser to use turbines. My sister ship was a very succsesful and famous raider in the Indian Ocean. I was in action in the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands. I was the only ship which escaped the Falklands battle in December 1914. I returned to the west coast of South America and was finally found and sunk by British cruisers when I was completely out of fuel.
    SMS Emden
    SMS Breslau
    SMS Nuernberg
    SMS Dresden


3. I was the first battlecruiser ever built. I was in action at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914 and destroyed the German armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst. I became flagship of the 3rd battlecruiser squadron and was sunk in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 when SMS Luetzow and SMS Derfflinger hit me several times.
    HMS Inflexible
    HMS Queen Mary
    HMS Indefatigable
    HMS Invincible


4. I was one of the most famous battleships in the Royal Navy. I was commissioned in 1915 and took part in the battle of Jutland where I was badly damaged because my rudder jammed and I started to run in circles very close to the German battle line. A mayor reconstruction was made in the 1920s and in the late 1930s. I was in action in the Mediterranean in WW2 and was badly damaged by a German guided bomb in 1943. I took part in the D-Day landings and was sold for scrap in the late 1940s.
    HMS Queen Elisabeth
    HMS Warspite
    HMS Royal Oak
    HMS Valiant


5. I was together with my sister, the biggest heavy (Washington) cruiser ever built. But I was too late to fight in the Second World War. Later I became a filmstar when I played the role of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in a movie.
    USS Des Moines
    USS Salem
    USS Alaska
    USS Helena II


6. I was a ship of the 3rd British battlecruiser class. I was in action at Heligoland Bight, at the Battle of the Dogger Bank and at the battle of Jutland. I was the flagship of the British battlecruiser force.
    HMS Lion
    HMS Queen Mary
    HMS Princess Royal
    HMS Tiger


7. I was the only Italian battleship sunk during the attack on Taranto in 1940 and was never repaired.
    Conte di Cavour
    Gulio Cesare
    Andrea Doria
    Vittorio Veneto


8. I am the first of the class of the modern German frigates commissioned in the 2000s.
    Luetjens
    Brandenburg
    Sachsen
    Bremen


9. I was originally designed as a light cruiser but shortly before my country attacked the US at Pearl Harbour I was refitted as a heavy cruiser with 10x8in guns. I was first of class and saw service in many battles during the war. I was in action at the Battle of Midway and I had a collision with my sister ship Mikuma which was later sunk by US bombers. I was finally sunk in the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944.
    Mikuma
    Chokai
    Takao
    Mogami


10. The Battle of Dogger Bank took place in 1940.
    True
    False


11. When did the Battle of Cape Matapan take place?
    28 August 1914
    9 July 1940
    24-27 May 1941
    27-29 March 1941


12. I was a British St. Vincent class battleship comissionend in 1909. My name is a very traditional one in the RN and I was the eighth ship to have this name. I was in the first battle squadron in Grand Fleet and was in action at Jutland. In 1917 I suffered an magazine explosion and sank in harbour.
    HMS Neptune
    HMS St. Vincent
    HMS Vanguard
    HMS Collingwood


13. Name the four ships of the German Koenig Class.
    SMS Koenig & SMS Markgraf & SMS Grosser Kurfuerst & SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm
    SMS Koenig & SMS Markgraf & SMS Posen & SMS Grosser Kurfuerst
    SMS Koenig & SMS Prinzregent Luitpold & SMS Friedrich der Grosse & SMS Markgraf
    SMS Westfalen & SMS Nassau & SMS Posen & SMS Rheinland


14. I was the last German armoured cruiser ever built. I was in action at Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915 and was sunk by British battlecruisers.
    SMS Bluecher
    SMS Yorck
    SMS Scharnhorst
    SMS Prinz Adalbert


15. USS Saratoga was severely damaged by a deck fire in 1967 which was started by a Zuni rocket that was accidently fired from a F4 Phantom. 132 crewman died.
    True
    False


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