Statistics for RMS Titanic Disaster: 20 Questions

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Number of victims of the disaster (to the nearest hundred)	1500	96%
How many people were on board (to the nearest hundred)?	2200	94%
Number of survivors of the disaster (to the nearest hundred)	700	94%
Who was the Titanic's captain?	Edward J Smith	90%
What day did the ship strike the iceberg, or what day did it finish sinking?	April 14 or April 15	88%
How many of the above three survived?	1 (Ismay)	87%
Who was the Titanic's owner?	J Bruce Ismay	86%
What ship picked up the survivors?	RMS Carpathia	81%
Who was the richest man aboard?	John Jacob Astor	76%
Who directed the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, and dove to the wreck site later on?	James Cameron	75%
Lastly, what year did the ship sink?	1912	74%
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	72%
Who was the Titanic's first officer, overseeing the starboard boats' launching? (He died)	William Murdoch	68%
Who was the Titanic's second officer, overseeing the port boats' launching? (He survived)	Charles Lightoller	59%
What was that book, and the 1958 movie of the same name that followed, called?	A Night to Remember	57%
Who was the oceanographer that found the Titanic's wreck in 1985?	Robert Ballard	48%
Who was the last (and longest lived) survivor of the Titanic, who died in 2009?	Millivina Dean	16%
Who wrote a book in the 1950s which sparked renewed public interest in the disaster?	Walter Lord	16%
Who led the U.S. inquiry into the disaster?	Senator William Alden Smith	15%
Who led the British inquiry?	Lord Mersey	14%