"WHO SAID IT?"--Famous Quotes from the Titanic Quiz

Answer: 1st Officer Murdoch

After the Titanic hit the iceberg, Captain Smith walked onto the bridge and asked 1st Officer Murdoch what had happened. Murdoch explained that the ship hit the iceberg. "I put a hard-a-starboard. I tried to port round, but she was too close and we hit."

Answer: Mrs. Hart

Mrs. Esther Hart was Eva Hart's mother. Eva recalls how her mother would never sleep during the night while onboard. An officer had told Esther once that the ship was unsinkable, but not convinced, Esther said "To call this ship 'unsinkable' is flying in the face of God."

Answer: Thomas Andrews

While the ship sat motionless, Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews did a fast inspection of the ship and the lower compartments. Andrews explained that the watertight bulkheads were only as high as E Deck and the ship could not float with more than four compartments flooded. Titanic had 5 opened up. Once the water filled the fifth compartment, it would overflow into the sixth and then the seventh and so on. Andrews told the captain, "I give her an hour; maybe an hour and a half at best."

Answer: 3rd Officer Pitman

As the lifeboats were being filled, J. Bruce Ismay was shouting orders to load the boats. When he approached 3rd Officer Pitman to load the boats, Pitman said, "I await the commander's orders." Pitman then realized who this "stranger" may have been and asked the captain if he should do what Ismay says. Captain Smith agreed and said to go ahead.

Answer: Hugh Woolner

Just before departing in Boat D, Hugh Woolner and Beunstrom Stefanson were on A Deck. The lights were now starting to get a reddish glow to them and the ship was starting to sink faster. There was no one on this deck so Woolner said, "This is getting to be rather a tight place. Let's try to exit through the end." As they exited the deck forward, the water came over the gunwale of A Deck. Stefanson and Woolner then jumped into Boat D as it was lowering to the water.

Answer: Colonel Archibald Gracie

After the collision, Gracie and James Clinch Smith went to their cabins to retrieve some things. As Gracie started back up the stairs at C Deck, he ran into Frank Wright, the squash court pro. Gracie always had the squash court reserved in the morning before breakfast. Trying to joke a bit, Gracie asked Wright, "Hadn't we better cancel that appointment?" Wright replied with a flat, "Yes." Gracie never saw him again.

Answer: Second Officer Lightoller

As Boat 6 was starting down, someone cried out that there was only one seaman in the boat. Lightoller asked if there were any seamen around and Major Arthur Peuchen called out that he was a yachtsman. Lightoller told him, "If you're sailor enough to go out on that fall, you can go down." Peuchen did so.

Answer: Captain Smith

After Quartermaster Rowe had reached the bridge with the rockets, the captain told him, "Fire one & fire one every five minutes." This was in attempt to contact the Californian since they were not responding by wireless.

Answer: John Phillips

Before the Titanic hit the iceberg, the Californian had broken into John Phillips radio traffic about icebergs and that they were stopped for the night. As this message was going through, it was so close that it blasted into Phillips' headphones. He morsed back, "Shut up! Shut up! I'm busy! I'm working Cape Race!" Cape Race was a marconi station in Newfoundland where all messages were sent and received from land to ship and back.

Answer: Mrs. Straus

As Boat 8 was being filled, a couple of men offered to help Mrs. Straus into the boat. She almost went, but then turned to her husband who was still on deck. She said to him "We've been living together for many years. Where you go, I go." The two went and sat on deck chairs until the end. Colonel Gracie and others tried even to get Mr. Straus into the boat, but he refused saying he would not go before the others.

Answer: Olympic

Some ships failed to understand the Titanic's distress calls. Olympic thought she was to meet up with the Titanic somewhere and asked Phillips, "Are you steering south to meet us?" Phillips explained that they were putting the women off in the boats and that the engine room was filling up to the boilers.

Answer: Captain Lord

Onboard the Californian, Stone had informed Captain Stanley Lord about the rockets. Lord asked if they were company signals and Stone replied that he wasn't sure but they seemed to be white rockets. Unfortunately, Lord went back to sleep.

Answer: Benjamin Guggenheim

As the ship was about to take her final plunge into the sea, Benjamin Guggenheim and his valet had taken off their lifebelts and put on evening clothes. When asked, Guggenheim said "We've dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen".

Answer: Edith Evans

Edith Evans and another lady were going to get into Boat 4 as it was going to start down. But, Ms. Evans stopped and said to the lady, "You go first. You have children waiting at home." Evans died onboard the Titanic.

Answer: Jim Farrell

Down in the third class, three young Irish girls were being kept back by a guard at one of the gates separating first and third classes. Farrell shouted at the guard, "Great God, Man! Open the gate and let the girls through!" The guard unlocked the gate and let them through.