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100
12:00 a.m. in 24-hour time.
What is 0000 (zero zero zero zero)?
100
These are the lines that run north and south on a globe.
What are lines of longitude?
100
The names of two types of anchors.
What are Danforth, plow, fisherman, spade, mushroom, and Bruce?
100
This is the very front part of the boat.
What is the bow?
100
This knot has been called the king of the knots and was first described by Thomas Bowling.
What is the bowline knot?
200
Zero-one-hundred (0100) in 12-hour time
What is 1 a.m.?
200
These are the lines that run east to west on a globe.
What are lines of latitude?
200
The names of two types of visual distress signals.
What is a red flare, a parachute flare, an orange smoke flare, a floating orange smoke signal, a red meteor flare, an orange flag, or electric distress signal (SOS strobe light)?
200
This is the name for the rear of the boat.
What is the stern?
200

This is another name for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

What is Zulu Time?

OR

What us UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)

300
5:38 p.m. in 24-hour time
What is 1738 (seventeen-thirty-eight)?
300
This is the difference between true and magnetic north.
What is variation?
300
This buoy stays on your right when returning from the sea.
What is the red buoy?
300
This is the name for the right side of the boat.
What is starboard?
300
The names of 3 of the 6 points of sail.
What are in irons (into the wind), close-hauled, close reach, beam reach, broad reach, and running?
400
12:00 p.m. in 24-hour time
What is 1200 (twelve hundred)?
400
This is the protected, shallow, inland water route along the Atlantic seaboard from New Jersey to the waterways of south Texas.
What is the Intracoastal Waterway?
400
This type of PFD will turn an unconscious person face-up.
What is a Type II PFD?
400
This distress call on a radio is repeated three times to indicate that a boat is threatened by grave danger and needs immediate assistance.
What is Mayday?
400
This is the process of moving toward an upwind destination in a zigzag manner.
What is tacking?
500

The day and time in Texas when it is Thursday at 0130 GMT during daylight savings time.

What is Wednesday at 2030 (twenty-thirty)?

500
A nautical mile is this many feet.
What is 6,076 feet?
500
This alphabet flag is blue and white checkered and means "no" when raised.
What is November?
500
This unit of measurement is equal to one nautical mile per hour.
What is a knot?
500
This is the direction away from the wind.
What is leeward?