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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This cruise ship capsized in shallow Italian waters in 2012 in controversial circumstances— 32 died.	Costa Concordia	83%
This ship caught fire and sank off the Philippines in 1987 in the world’s worst peacetime maritime tragedy— over 4,000 died.	Doña Paz	83%
This ferry sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 after the bow visor failed in stormy weather — 852 lives were lost.	Estonia	83%
This German liner full of refugees was sunk by a submarine in the closing days of WWII— over 9,000 died in the world’s worst maritime disaster.	Wilhelm Gustloff	83%
This ship sank in Lake Superior in 1975 with the loss of all 29 hands; the cause is still undetermined.	Edmund Fitzgerald	67%
This ship rolled over while docked in the Chicago River in 1915– over 800 drowned.	Eastland	50%
This ship sank after a collision in the St. Lawrence River in 1914 with over 1,000 lives lost— Canada’s worst in peacetime.	Empress of Ireland	50%
This ship caught fire and burned in New York City’s East River in 1904– over 1,000 were lost.	General Slocum	50%
This munitions ship exploded in Halifax harbor in 1917, killing 1,700 people	Mont Blanc	50%
This ferry sank off South Korea in 2014 in controversial circumstances with the loss of 304 lives, most of them schoolchildren.	Sewol	33%
This ferry capsized and sank while leaving Zeebrugge harbor in 1987– 193 were lost.	Herald of Free Enterprise	17%
This ocean liner caught fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 137 lives	Morro Castle	17%
This ship sank in the Thames River in 1878 after a collision— at least 600 drowned.	Princess Alice	17%
This ship vanished without a trace in 1909 with all 211 souls onboard	Waratah	17%
This ferry sank in a cyclone off New Zealand in 1968– 53 perished.	Wahine	0%

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