Titanic! Trivia Quiz

Answer: 2,200

There are several "complete" passenger lists, but none of them match up to each other.

Answer: 882 feet 9 inches

She was longer than four city blocks.

Answer: Harland and Wolff

Harland and Wolff was founded in 1861, and (unlike many other UK shipbuilders) was still in business in the second decade of the 21st century.

Answer: True

The captain of the Titanic could not be faulted for negligence, as many respected captains of his time followed the same procedure.

Answer: Edward J. Smith

Rostron was captain of the Carpathia, Lord was captain of the Californian, and Murdoch was first officer on the Titanic.

Answer: No

Actually, the Republic, an earlier wreck, had used the SOS signal, with great success.

Answer: White Star Line, under IMM

The White Star Line, a British company, owned the Titanic, but that company was owned by International Mercantile Marine, an American company. Cunard was its rival, because it was a separate and independent line, while the American was under IMM. The Hamburg Line was a separate German company.

Answer: J. Bruce Ismay

Thomas Andrews was a designer for Harland and Wolff. Lord Pirrie was a board member of both White Star Line and IMM. (He also thought of the idea for the Titanic.) J.P. Morgan owned IMM, therefore he also owned the White Star Line.

Answer: Liverpool

Liverpool was the port of registry for all White Star Line ships, but most made their main port-of-call Southampton.

Answer: three, plus a fourth which was a dummy

Three of Titanic's funnels actually worked, while the fourth was used to let off galley smoke and as extra storage space for deck chairs.

Answer: None of them

Perhaps not surprisingly, all three take liberties with the facts for dramatic effect.

While in some ways the James Cameron version is most accurate in its depiction of the actual sinking, it has to be said that his representation of the ship's officers is insulting to the point of being almost libellous. While he presents many of them as inept, incompetent and cowardly, the recollections of the survivors is very different, and all recollect their heroic efforts to save as many passengers as possible. Indeed, Cameron's characterisation of First Officer William Murdoch was so inaccurate and insulting that the movie makers were forced to issue a public apology.

Answer: starboard

In Cameron's movie, we hear "hard-a-starboard." Nowadays, that would make the ship hit the iceberg on the port side, but back then, they still steered a ship according to sailing ship rules, meaning the rudder moved the opposite way as the wheel.

Answer: 14, with 4 collapsibles, and 2 cutters

The Titanic had two emergency cutters for man-overboard situations, fourteen regular lifeboats, and four collapsibles to make her seem extra-safe because she carried more boats than the law required.

Answer: About 52

Sadly, more first class men were saved than the amount of third class children who died. Many of them never even had a chance at the boats.

Answer: True

Her baby brother was saved when his nurse took him and ran, but her parents never knew and stayed on the ship, frantically looking for him and the nurse, never knowing that he was safe.

Answer: Second Officer Lightoller

Wilde went down with the ship, supposedly freezing to death, while legend has Murdoch shooting himself, and Moody also died.

Answer: Theoretically, yes

The ship was designed to handle both head-on collisions and collisions that filled its first four compartments.

Answer: 6

The iceberg gently burst open seams in the first six compartments.

Answer: Gently bumped open a few seams

Contrary to popular belief, all the iceberg did to the ship was cause a few ice-to-metal bumps that popped rivets and made pinky-finger-sized slits between plates.

Answer: False

The only real treasures the Titanic carried to the deep were the lives of over 1500 people, some of their jewels, and one jewel-encrusted copy of the "Rubaiyat".