RMS Titanic Disaster: 20 Questions

You may know all about the movie, but how much do you actually know about the infamous maritime disaster?

According to wikipedia, several books

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How many people were on board (to the nearest hundred)?	2200
Number of victims of the disaster (to the nearest hundred)	1500
Number of survivors of the disaster (to the nearest hundred)	700
Who was the Titanic's captain?	Edward J Smith
Who was the richest man aboard?	John Jacob Astor
Who was the Titanic's owner?	J Bruce Ismay
How many of the above three survived?	1 (Ismay)
What day did the ship strike the iceberg, or what day did it finish sinking?	April 14 or April 15
Of the first class travelers, second class travelers, third class travelers, and crew, which demographic had the highest losses? (Both proportionately and in raw numbers)	Crew
Who was the Titanic's first officer, overseeing the starboard boats' launching? (He died)	William Murdoch
Who was the Titanic's second officer, overseeing the port boats' launching? (He survived)	Charles Lightoller
What ship picked up the survivors?	RMS Carpathia
Who led the U.S. inquiry into the disaster?	Senator William Alden Smith
Who led the British inquiry?	Lord Mersey
Who was the oceanographer that found the Titanic's wreck in 1985?	Robert Ballard
Who wrote a book in the 1950s which sparked renewed public interest in the disaster?	Walter Lord
What was that book, and the 1958 movie of the same name that followed, called?	A Night to Remember
Who directed the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, and dove to the wreck site later on?	James Cameron
Who was the last (and longest lived) survivor of the Titanic, who died in 2009?	Millivina Dean
Lastly, what year did the ship sink?	1912