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The Titanic quiz
How well do you really know The Titanic? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of The Titanic questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
For the history timeline, what year and month did the Titanic sink?
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- It sank in 1912.
- It sank in April.
- It sank on April 15.
- Easy
Alongside CQD, which newer distress signal did Titanic’s radio operators send, and what did that signal communicate?
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- They sent SOS.
- SOS was a distress signal.
- It communicated an emergency and a call for help.
- Medium
Titanic’s famous collision happened in the dark: what did it hit, and where had the iceberg likely come from?
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- An iceberg
- The iceberg likely came from a Greenland glacier
- The collision happened in the North Atlantic
- Medium
Two companies had very different roles with Titanic: which shipbuilder made it, and which company operated it?
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- Harland and Wolff built Titanic
- The shipyard was in Belfast
- The White Star Line operated Titanic
- Medium
On Titanic’s maiden voyage, which two ports did it stop at before crossing the Atlantic, and which country was each port in?
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- It stopped at Cherbourg in France.
- It stopped at Queenstown, now called Cobh, in Ireland.
- Hard
Two men kept Titanic’s wireless room busy. Who were they, and what happened to each during the sinking?
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- Jack Phillips and Harold Bride operated Titanic’s wireless room
- Phillips died during the sinking
- Bride survived
- Hard
Which Titanic sister ship sank during World War I, and what was its wartime role and the year it sank?
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- The ship was Britannic, also called HMHS Britannic.
- It served as a hospital ship during World War I.
- It sank in 1916.
- Boss
When was Titanic’s wreck found, who led the search, and what underwater system helped locate it?
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- The wreck was found in 1985
- The search was led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel
- The Argo towed camera system helped locate the wreck
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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