Q 01/05

Frankie Goldsmith, nine when the Titanic sank, never took his children to which sport because of the cheering?

A) Boxing

B) Football

C) Baseball

D) Horse racing

Answer · why

C) Baseball

Baseball was hard to escape: the family settled in Detroit beside Navin Field, home of the Tigers. Each roar after a home run sounded to Goldsmith lik...

Q 02/05

Stewardess Violet Jessop escaped the Titanic and also survived which hospital ship, sunk by a mine in 1916?

A) Britannic

B) Lusitania

C) Mauretania

D) Aquitania

Answer · why

A) Britannic

Britannic was the Titanic's younger sister, and Jessop was serving on it as a nurse when it went down in the Aegean in under an hour. She had also bee...

Q 03/05

Charles Lightoller, the senior surviving Titanic officer, later sailed his own yacht to which wartime evacuation?

A) Crete

B) Gallipoli

C) Singapore

D) Dunkirk

Answer · why

D) Dunkirk

Dunkirk brought Lightoller out of retirement in 1940. Rather than let the Navy requisition his motor yacht Sundowner, he sailed it across the Channel ...

Q 04/05

Lookout Frederick Fleet told both Titanic inquiries he would have seen the iceberg sooner with what equipment?

A) A searchlight

B) Binoculars

C) A telescope

D) Signal flares

Answer · why

B) Binoculars

Binoculars were requested again and again by the lookouts and never supplied. Experts now argue that, in that night's conditions, even a pair would no...

Q 05/05

Ida Straus refused a Titanic lifeboat seat to stay with husband Isidor, co-owner of which New York store?

A) Bloomingdale's

B) Gimbels

C) Macy's

D) Lord & Taylor

Answer · why

C) Macy's

Macy's was run by Isidor Straus and his brother Nathan. As the boats filled, he and Ida were seen on deck arm in arm, and only his body was ever recov...