USS Arizona is still carried as an active vessel, ie passing ships render honors. She is not a museum. A memorial has been erected over her, but the museum is on the shore.
Since 1941, Arizona has been leaking oil into the harbor. Old sailor's lore is she will continue to weep until the last Pearl Harbor survivor shifts colors.
OldSailor and burntfrost are both correct. The Arizona Memorial to the beginning and the Missouri to the end of the war and I dare any American with the smallest bit of national pride to go on the Arizona Memorial and not get emotional. To me, it has the feel of a very holy place.To Jerry 928 later in the discussion, the Arizona is still an active vessel because she has never been decommissioned and I pray that she never is.
the USS Pueblo is still an actively commissioned US Navy vessel despite being held by North Korea since 1968. We in the Navy have a long memory when it comes to ships.
I was drawing a blank on the name of his ship. First I thought I remembered it was something black, but typing that got me nothing. Then I remembered, "No, it was the Pearl!" But typing that got me nothing. Once again, so close yet so far away.
why am I surprised that 70% of people didn't know the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? I have seen her sister ship I forget the dang name of it on Lake Erie in the 1990s. Last I heard it was still on the lakes.
Good quiz, even though there are lots of famous ships left off including a couple mentioned above. So many you or someone could probably squeeze out a sequel.
The Queen Anne's Revenge, the Dawn Treader, the Yamato, the Dreadnought, the Mimi, Voyager, the Phoenix, Excelsior, Dauntless, Slave 1, Red 5, Maersk Alabama, Lusitania, Challenger, Apollo 13... like I said, plenty of material for a sequel.
A few of those answers are all but unknown to most outside of North America. Who the heck is Gordon Lightfoot? The rest of the world tends not to study the Spanish-American war in great detail and a question on a US sitcom that stopped recording over 50 years ago? It may have been popular in the States but surprisingly the rest of the world don't show repeats of it any more. Indeed, I don't think it's been shown over here for 30/40 years.
Great idea for a quiz, I don't mean to be totally negative. I just think some more famous potential answers were missed in favour of some obscure answers that those of us not from North America have virtually no chance of knowing.
Gordon Lightfoot is a Canadian folk-rock singer-songwriter who achieved international fame in the 1960s and '70s. Some of my favorites from him are Early Morning Rain and If You Could Read My Mind. His lyrics from the heart and haunting voice are just beautiful. At 80+ years, he's still touring.
Algernon, if QM only includes questions about America that are well known across the pond, most would be too easy for Americans. If QM includes questions well known only in one other country, they would likely be too obscure for many Americans and others. (I had no idea about Nelson's ship, for example.) The best quizzes will have some of both, as I believe this one did. Regarding the Gilligan's Island question, I haven't seen the show in decades either, but I can still sing every word of the theme song. It will be stuck in my mind forever, "If not for the courage of the fearless crew the Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost."
Judging from his many complainy comments around the site, Algernon is under the impression that there is a mysterious far away place called America from whence no knowledge or information ever escapes, and the block around his house constitutes the entire rest of the world and it's only possible to know about things you might see there.
Indeed in French Jacques-Yves is one name, not first name + optional/rarely used middle name like in US names. But since he became internationally famous, the second part of his first name has been usually dropped.
Pedant that I am, I feel the need to point out that the Niña and Pinta were owned (and captained) by the Pinzón brothers, and not by Columbus. They were already prominent Spanish sailors, whom he was fortunate to recruit. (I would happily accept a hint that read "Three ships that sailed in Columbus's first voyage".)
Thank you, John Denver, for giving me Calypso. He wrote the chorus while on board the ship, and later sang it to Cousteau for his birthday. "To live on the land we must learn from the sea."
Another suggestion for the future: HMS Belfast, now moored in London west of Tower Bridge - it has an interesting history. What Wikipedia doesn't say is that in 1962 an attempt was made to smuggle drugs on it (c. 50 lbs opium/heroin) from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
just in reply to some earlier comments . I'm from Europe and found this quiz OK. I missed only 5 one was the Jack Sparrow one , never seen these movies never want to.
Since 1941, Arizona has been leaking oil into the harbor. Old sailor's lore is she will continue to weep until the last Pearl Harbor survivor shifts colors.
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A few of those answers are all but unknown to most outside of North America. Who the heck is Gordon Lightfoot? The rest of the world tends not to study the Spanish-American war in great detail and a question on a US sitcom that stopped recording over 50 years ago? It may have been popular in the States but surprisingly the rest of the world don't show repeats of it any more. Indeed, I don't think it's been shown over here for 30/40 years.
Great idea for a quiz, I don't mean to be totally negative. I just think some more famous potential answers were missed in favour of some obscure answers that those of us not from North America have virtually no chance of knowing.