Pick # people at random and have them around a table. Ask the question and then have them put their hands down in the middle as if playing slap jack…so you’ll end up with 5 people hands on top of one another….have the person with the bottom hand slide their hand out and then ask them to answer….if they get it right, the question is closed and they get a point. If they get it wrong, they then lose a point and the next person gets to slide their hand out and try…if your hand is on the table, you must answer.
Boat and Paddler Trivia
1.The Norkapp with the integrated rudder built in with the keel line is called this model?
2. Who was first woman to circumnavigate Great Britain?
3. Who presently holds the record for the circumnavigation of England?
4. Nigel Dennis has a daughter named….
5. Who designed the production Anas Acuta?
6. What boat is a DIRECT descendant of the Anas Acuta?
7. If we weren’t talking about boats and someone said that’s a lovely Anas Acuta, what is he or she talking about?
8. What is weathercocking?
9. How would you counter weathercocking?
Navigational Trivia
1. When do Spring Tides occur?
2. When do Neap Tides occur?
3. What is MLLW and what is its significance?.
4. What is Latitude?
5. What is Longitude?.
6. What is the difference between a True heading and a Compass Heading?
7. Define Variation and Deviation and their respective causes
8. What is a common mnemonic for converting True headings to Compass Headings and back again?
9. What is the significance of Greenwich England?
10. How far is 1 degree of Latitude?
11. How far is 1 minute of Latitude?
12. Along the Equator, how far is 1 minute of Longitude?
General Sea related Historical Trivia
1. Who was the creator of the first reliable sea worthy time piece and what is its significance?
2. What was the name of the ship that was the real life story of Moby Dick?
3. Is the story of the Bounty of Mutiny on the Bounty fame based on fact or is it fiction a la Treasure Island?
4. On Captain Cooks 3rd and last voyage, who aboard HMS Resolution chose Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii as the landing site where ultimately James Cook was killed by angry natives?
5. How many men died on Shackleton’s voyage to the Antarctic?
Answers:
Boat and Paddler Trivia
1. HM
2. Fiona Whitehead
3. Harry Whelan, Barry Shaw and Phil Clegg – 80 days and countless pints
4. Romany. His other daughter’s name is Greenlander Pro.
5. Frank Goodman
6. Pintail
7. Pintail Duck. Anas Acuta is the latin name for a pintail duck
8. Weathercocking is a boats tendency to turn into the wind.
9. Acceptable answers include skeg, altering stroke, or cocking your hip.
Navigational Trivia
1 When the Sun and Moon are in a relatively straight line to Earth, we have a Spring Tide. This is a Tide that is Higher than the norm.
2. When the Sun and Moon and Earth create a Right angle, we have a Neap Tide. This is a tide that is Lower than the norm
3. Charted depths are recoded in Mean Low, Low, Water. This is a mean # of the lower low water heights of a mixed tide observed over a specific 19 year cycle. Only the lower low water of each pair of low waters, or the only low water of a tidal day is included in the mean. It’s significance is that the depth on the chart is the mean of this average so we have a pretty good idea of what the shallowest water is we can expect in a location
4. Lattude is the distance N or S of the equator expressed in degrees from 0 to 90 N or S
5.Longitude is the distance E or W of the prime meridian expressed in degrees from 0 to 180 E or W.
6. Variation and Deviation.
7. Variation is the angular difference between the geographic meridian and the magnetic meridian at a particular location. This is caused by variances in local geography. Deviation is the effect a vessels magnetic field has on a compass. In our case it’s often something like the cook pot being stored too close to the compass.
8. Timid Virgins Make Dull Company, Add Whisky
And Can Dead Men Vote Twice, At Elections.
9. Greenwich England is the location of the observatory marking the present Prime Meridian.
10. 60 nautical miles.
11.. 1 nautical mile
12. 1 nautical mile
General Sea related Historical Trivia
1. John Harrison. The significance is that for every 15 degrees E or W of the prime meridian you travel, the local time differs from the time at the prime meridian by an hour. Consequently if you have an accurate chronometer set to Greenwich time and then compare that to a reading at noon Local, you can establish your longitude by calculating the difference. Combined with existing technologies to determine Latitude, you could then establish where you were on earth. So next time you use your GPS or google earth think about all those cool things starting with a watchmaker in a little shop.
2. The whaling ship Essex out of Nantucket sank by a sperm whale November 20, 1820
3. True. Once Bligh was released from the Bounty in an open boat he managed to make one of the epic open boat crossings in Brit Naval history – 3,618 NM from Tofua to Timor in an open 21 foot boat with only a pocket watch and a sextant.
4. William Bligh was the sailing master of HMS Resolution+
5. Nobody died!
