Statistics for Famous Warships

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Lead ship of the most powerful battleship class in history (Japan, 1941)	IJN Yamato	85%
Hitler's most famous battleship sunk in 1941 (Germany, 1940)	Bismarck	84%
Large battlecruiser sunk by the above (UK, 1920)	HMS Hood	77%
Battleship where Japan surrendered in WWII (USA, 1944)	USS Missouri	73%
Battleship which revolutionised warship design (UK, 1906)	HMS Dreadnought	71%
Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar (Great Britain, 1778)	HMS Victory	58%
Oldest commissioned warship still afloat (USA, 1798)	USS Constitution	58%
WWII cruiser preserved on the Thames in London (UK, 1939)	HMS Belfast	56%
Lead ship of the largest class of warship ever built (USA, 1975)	USS Nimitz	51%
Cruiser controversially torpedoed during the 1982 Falklands War (Argentina, 1938)	ARA General Belgrano	43%
Battleship which mysteriously exploded in Havana in 1898 (USA, 1895)	USS Maine	41%
First ever nuclear-powered submarine (USA, 1954)	USS Nautilus	40%
Preserved flagship of Henry VIII's navy which sank in 1545 (England, 1512)	HMS Mary Rose	31%
Sailors mutinied to overthrow Captain William Bligh in 1789 (Great Britain, 1787)	HMS Bounty	30%
Cruiser whose guns started the October Revolution (Russia, 1897)	Aurora	29%
Destroyer attacked by Al-Qaeda in Yemen in 2000 (USA, 1996)	USS Cole	25%
Raised sunken warship perfectly preserved and on display (Sweden, 1627)	Vasa	25%
First ocean-going ironclad (France, 1860)	Gloire	20%
James Cook's most famous ship (Great Britain, 1764)	HMS Endeavour	20%
Man-powered submarine; first submarine to sink an enemy ship (CSA, 1863)	Hunley	20%
Predreadnought which started WWII in Poland (Germany, 1904)	SMS Schleswig-Holstein	18%
Sloop forced to flee down the River Yangtze in 1949 (UK, 1943)	HMS Amethyst	12%
Most heavily-armed sailing ship in history (Spain, 1769)	Santisima Trinidad	8%
Louis XIV's huge royal flagship (France, 1671)	Soleil Royal	4%