Q 01/05

Which headdress do Royal Marines recruits earn by passing the Commando course at Lympstone?

A) Maroon beret

B) Green beret

C) Sand beret

D) Sky-blue beret

Answer · why

B) Green beret

The green beret has marked a commando since October 1942, when the first were issued to the Royal Marines. Before then, a single commando unit could p...

Q 02/05

Which Royal Marines slang for a long march in full kit became famous in the 1982 Falklands War?

A) Yomp

B) Tab

C) Hump

D) Ruck

Answer · why

A) Yomp

Yomp entered everyday English after Royal Marines carried 80 lb loads 56 miles across East Falkland in three days. The Army's word for the same slog i...

Q 03/05

Which novelist, then in naval intelligence, proposed 30 Commando, whose title a Royal Marines unit revived in 2010?

A) Graham Greene

B) Evelyn Waugh

C) Ian Fleming

D) John le Carré

Answer · why

C) Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming wanted a unit to go in with the leading troops and seize codes and documents. He later drew on its commandos when he created James Bond.

Q 04/05

Which fictional hero names the aerial assault course Royal Marines recruits must pass in 13 minutes?

A) Rambo

B) Robin Hood

C) Zorro

D) Tarzan

Answer · why

D) Tarzan

Tarzan lends his name to a ropes-and-ladders course that opens with a zip-line slide and ends with a rope climb up a 30-foot wall. Officers are allowe...

Q 05/05

Which fortress, captured in 1704, is the only battle honour named on the Royal Marines badge?

A) Gibraltar

B) Barcelona

C) Minorca

D) Cartagena

Answer · why

A) Gibraltar

Gibraltar fell after some 1,800 English and allied marines landed on its isthmus, and they then held the Rock through a nine-month siege against a far...