The "iron curtain" was created at the beginning of what war?
What is the Cold War?
100
This particular aircraft's mission is to gather information.
What is the reconnaissance-attack aircraft?
100
These tides are created when the forces of the moon and the sun are working together.
What are spring tides?
100
He was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was President John F. Kennedy?
100
This is the deepest spot in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Marianas Trench?
200
Blitzkrieg, or lightning war, a tactic in which troops used motor vehicles and tanks to advance deep into enemy territory before the defenses could react, was introduced in what war?
What is World War II?
200
This is the meaning of the acronym "VTOL".
What is vertical take-off and landing?
200
This type of buoy can be made to free-float while remaining at any chosen depth and was used to investigate countercurrents underneath the Gulf Stream.
What is the Swallow buoy?
200
He led the raiding party into the Tripolitan harbor to burn the Philadelphia on 16 February 1804.
Who is Stephen Decatur?
200
This is the uppermost complete deck on an aircraft carrier.
What is the flight deck?
300
Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled in Holland on 9 November 1918, two days before the end of what war?
What is World War I?
300
These weapons, designed by the British in early World War I, were canisters of TNT fitted with a device that would detonate at a preset depth. They were used in antisubmarine warfare.
What are depth charges?
300
This sea's stagnant water allows organic decay at the bottom, creating hydrogen sulfide, which, mixed with water, is corrosive on metals and would ruin a submarine's hull, endangering the crew.
What is the Black Sea?
300
The greatest American naval war hero
Who is John Paul Jones?
300
These high-value organisms are caught along the New England, Caribbean, and South African coasts.
What are lobsters?
400
This war, fought between England and France from 1756-1763, was a world war with land and sea battles occuring in almost every part of the globe.
What is the Seven Years' War (the French and Indian War)?
400
This U.S. Navy aircraft is used to jam enemy radar, electronic data links, and communications.
What is the EA-6B?
400
These are the two major divisions of marine animals.
What are those that have jaws and those that do not.
400
He wrote the Influence of Sea Power Upon History.
Who was Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan?
400
Panama revolted against this country in the early 1900's for its independence.
What is Columbia?
500
This war, between Great Britain and the United States, began in 1812 and ended with the arrival of a peace treaty in the United States on 11 February 1815. This war proved that the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. as a whole, were equal with the other powers of the world and deserved respect.
What is the War of 1812?
500
SSBN is the designation for this type of ship.
What is the nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine?
500
The Portuguese man-of-war is this type of poisonous marine invertebrate.
What is a hydroid?
500
The most notorious American pirate
Who was Jean LaFitte?
500
These are followers who always complain and criticize every idea or policy of the unit and take no action except to disagree and complain.