Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", Part 1 Quiz

Answer: Sabotage by Muslim fanatics at a massive oilfield.

Three employees, after much planning, raid the control center and open and close the correct valves to induce a fire which consumes everything at the production facility. They murder all the technicians and die in a battle with security, taking most of them with them.

Answer: Invading the Middle East

NATO forces would make an invasion of Mid-East oil producing nations costly and endanger the very resource the USSR is after...oil.

Answer: Chicago

Dallas was in "Red October". Boston and Pittsburgh are other boats in this novel, Boston having close encounters with Chicago.

Answer: Stage a bombing of the Kremlin.

Several civilians were killed, some of them children. It was blamed on a West German citizen.

Answer: Red Navy diesel-electric subs upgrading their batteries.

Fresh batteries can dramatically increase a diesel-electric sub's performance.

Answer: Energy

Sergetov had to try to resolve the aforementioned oil shortage.

Answer: USS Pharris

Kidd is a destroyer later seen in dry dock undergoing repair. Stark and Cole were US warships which really were damaged by hostile or accidental action. Stark (Perry class frigate) by the Iraqi military while escorting Kuwaiti tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, May 1987, Cole (Burke class destroyer) by suicide bombers damaging her with a small boat packed with explosives.

This occurred in the Yemeni port of Aden, October 2000.

Answer: Take out Soviet AWACS aircraft.

If successful, Soviet command and control of the air battle will be severely impacted.

Answer: Keflavik, Iceland

With the remainder of the airborne division flown into Iceland, the Soviets have severed the Greenland, Iceland, UK line of defense. Intact, this line would have been able to detect and prosecute Soviet submarines and long range naval aircraft attempting to attack Atlantic convoys, critical to the introduction and resupply of NATO forces in Europe. Now the Soviets can use Iceland as a forward defense base against NATO air attacks.

Answer: Air Force

Edwards avoids capture and has with him a Marine sergeant and two privates. The Marines are not very keen at following the orders of a "wing wiper". He intends to report the collapse of Iceland's defense as soon as he can, via satellite phone.

Answer: Conning the ship

Toland had put a destroyer on a sandbar early in his career, now he is steering a damaged super carrier after a heavy attack.

Answer: A woman was being raped.

A young woman named Vigdis was being raped, and Edwards took action. He was dating a girl in college who was raped and murdered. He felt powerless then, but this time the attackers would pay. He and the marines kill or capture all five Russians involved. Behind enemy lines and with no way to deal with prisoners who were committing crimes, the captured Russians are executed.

Answer: HNoMS Kobben (Norway)

Captain Bjorn Johannsen attacked with his small, coastal sub and put four mark 37 torpedoes into Kirov, sinking her quickly. Under heavy attack by Kirov's escorts, Kobben was damaged and almost out of battery power when Chicago loosed three harpoon missiles before being forced into evasive action.

These missiles scored hits against the escorts hunting Kobben, taking the heat off her. Kobben was able to escape. This event was recounted days later in a bar in Faslane, Scotland. Johannsen, drinking heavily in celebration, tells his story over and over. McCafferty is angry that Johannsen hits "his" target.

When Johannsen figures out who McCafferty is, he hugs McCafferty. "Hero!...You save my men!...You save my ship!"

Answer: Her bow is nearly severed, it folds back upon the hull.

Pharris remains afloat and is towed to harbor aft first by a fleet tug. She is done for the war.

Answer: True

They ran the tapes of satellite footage backward to see where supply trucks were coming FROM. These made important targets for air strikes.

Answer: Recon satelittes

In the '80s, women in combat roles were very restricted. Her first three kills occurred while ferrying an F-15 to Europe. She was detailed for ASAT missions because it was not considered combat.

Answer: Takes personal command of a tank division after its commander dies.

The 20th Guards Tank division's commanding general is KIA. The division's deputy commander is a new colonel. Alekseyev takes command and effectively leads them until a replacement is found.

Answer: Sub launched cruise missiles timed to arrive just after a returning strike lands.

The timing for this is critical. The intention is to catch bombers still in the runway, not in shelters. Cluster munitions would make short work of exposed jets, especially being refueled and/or re-armed.

Answer: USS Reuben James

The Reuben James is a Perry class frigate. She also made an appearance in the movie "The Hunt for Red October". She did not appear in that book.

Answer: SS Andrea Doria

The Andria Doria sank off the northeast coast of America after colliding with the SS Stockholm. The Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. The Titanic and Louise Lykes sank in the Atlantic. Note the Lykes name, which was used by the fictional Julius Fucik MV in the landing on Iceland. She changed her rigging and used the name SS Doctor Lykes.