Q 01/05

Which film director piloted the submersible Deepsea Challenger alone to the bottom of Challenger Deep in 2012?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) James Cameron

C) Ridley Scott

D) Peter Jackson

Answer · why

B) James Cameron

James Cameron made the first solo dive to the ocean's deepest point and spent about three hours exploring the bottom. The descent alone took two hours...

Q 02/05

Which ocean liner's wreck did a French-American team with Robert Ballard find in 1985, about 12,500 feet down?

A) Lusitania

B) Britannic

C) Titanic

D) Andrea Doria

Answer · why

C) Titanic

Titanic lay undiscovered for 73 years, and the search was made possible partly by first surveying the wrecks of two lost Cold War nuclear submarines f...

Q 03/05

HMS Challenger, whose 1870s voyage laid the foundations of oceanography, later gave its name to which NASA craft?

A) A space shuttle

B) A Mars rover

C) A space telescope

D) A space station

Answer · why

A) A space shuttle

A space shuttle orbiter, Challenger, was named after the ship, which spent 1872 to 1876 sounding the oceans and turned up about 4,700 new species.

Q 04/05

Jacques Cousteau and engineer Émile Gagnan invented which piece of diving gear in wartime France?

A) The diving helmet

B) The snorkel

C) The dive computer

D) The Aqua-Lung

Answer · why

D) The Aqua-Lung

The Aqua-Lung fed a diver air from a tank only on each breath, thanks to a demand regulator. It became the first scuba set to win worldwide popularity...

Q 05/05

Kathy Sullivan, who in 2020 became the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, was already famous in which profession?

A) Mountaineer

B) Astronaut

C) Olympic swimmer

D) Polar explorer

Answer · why

B) Astronaut

Astronaut Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space, in 1984. Her dive made her the first person to visit both space and the deepes...