Common Core 101: Naval History

Question 1

September 11, 2001

Answer 1

4 planes/2 WTC, 1 Pentagon, 1 Shanksville
19 hijackers
3000 victims

Question 2

USS Forrestal

Answer 2

July 29, 1967
134 killed
$72 million in damage
electronic anomaly caused Zuni rocket to explode

Question 3

USS Stark

Answer 3

May 17, 1987
First and only successful anti-ship missile attack
37 Sailors were killed; 21 were injured

Question 4

USS Cole

Answer 4

October 12, 2000
Al-Qaeda terrorist suicide attack
Yemeni port of Aden

Question 5

Battle of Midway

Answer 5

June 3-5, 1942
160 Japanese ships
3 US Carriers
turning point in WW2

Question 6

Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 6

May 7-8, 1942
USA able to break Japanese Code
May 7, Japanese sank 2 minor ships

Question 7

Pearl Harbor

Answer 7

December 7, 1941
2402 sailors killed
1282 wounded
188 aircraft destroyed
65 Japanese killed
1 captured
29 Japanese aircraft destroyed

Question 8

Great White Fleet

Answer 8

December 16, 1907

Presence of Power

Question 9

Battle of Normandy

Answer 9

June 6, 1944
Operation Overlord
D-Day

Question 10

Guadalcanal

Answer 10

November 13-15, 1942
5 Sullivan brothers killed on USS Juneau along with 700 others.
Family member separation

Question 11

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer 11

October 23, 1944

Final blow to Japanese Navy

Question 12

USS Independence

Answer 12

LCS-2
Mission Modules
40 knots

Question 13

3 ships at the inception of Navy

Answer 13

Ships-of-the-Line 64-100 Guns
Frigates 28-44 Guns
Sloops-of-War 10-20 Guns

Question 14

Oldest Ship?

Answer 14

USS Constitution
1797
Naval Act of 1794

Question 15

Navy’s Birthday

Answer 15

October 13, 1775

Question 16

first ships named after Enlisted man?

Answer 16

USS Osmund Ingram
First enlisted sailor killed in WW1
DD255 launched February 28 1919

Question 17

Gun Salutes

Answer 17

always in odd numbers and separated by 5 seconds
21 Guns
President or heads of state, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day
17 
Admiral
15
Vice Admiral
13
RADM
11
Commodore