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Father of the U.S. Navy

John Paul Jones

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Youngest president ELECTED into office in U.S. History

John F. Kennedy

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This maneuver aids choking

Heimlich maneuver

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How many articles are there to the US Constitution when including the signatures section?

7

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When in street parades, this person issues orders as to how the parade is to be conducted, where the individual units will form, and their positions in the line of march.  

Grand marshal

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Youngest naval captain in U.S. history

Stephen Decatur

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President associated with the Watergate scandal

Richard Nixon

200

dangerous drop in body temperature typically caused by exposure to the cold

hypothermia

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What is the name of the reference plane on longitude that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, numbering its self as 0 degrees

prime meridian

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Before timepieces such as clocks and watches were common, the passage of time was  recorded by the use of what device

Hour glass

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What Naval officer became a national hero when he defeated a British squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812?

Oliver Hazard Perry

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This president did not serve 2 consecutive terms

Grover Cleveland

300

ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid

buoyancy

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What was the largest U.S. military and naval force assembled since the Vietnam War to Saudi Arabia?

Operation Desert Shield

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President of Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

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Who said, “I have not yet begun to fight”?

John Paul Jones

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First president to die in office as well as shortest-serving president

William Henry Harrison

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This tide occurs when waters move away from the shore (high tide to low tide)

ebb current

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What is the time required to complete one cycle of a wave called?

period

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name the 3 largest oceans in the world in order

Pacific (1), Atlantic (2), Indian(3)

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Who said, “We have met the enemy and they are ours”?

Oliver Hazard Perry

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President who served over 2 terms

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Opposite of ebb current (low tide to high tide)

flood current

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what is the term that represents a liquid that is heated and condensed to purify it into a new substance or concentrate, such as fermented alcohols or a type of water used in lab experiments?

distilled

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a limited and selective form of naval blockade that is directed against specific prohibited cargo called contraband is called what?

quarantine