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Test your travel smarts: OCEAN LINERS

by Julia Bainbridge | See more Condé Nast Traveler quizzes ›
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Read our article on crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific in style, then test your nautical know-how with this quiz.

Questions

1. When was the first vessel created exclusively for pleasure voyages built?
A. 1830
B. 1852
C. 1900
D. 1917
2. On the Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas, about how many slices of pizza are consumed in a week?
A. 2,250
B. 4,500
C. 9,000
D. 18,000
3. One knot equals about how many miles per hour?
0.75
1.15
1.75
2.15
4. The market for cruise ships is dominated by which three countries:
A. Norway, Italy, and Germany
B. France, Finland, and Norway
C. The United States, Japan and Germany
D. England, Colombia, and China
5. It is not uncommon for the most luxurious ships to have:
A. A zoo
B. Two passengers for every staff member
C. A shooting range
D. Tony Bennett
6. In his 1857 book Canoeing in the Wilderness, proto-cruiser Henry David Thoreau chronicled his canoe voyage through:
A. Massachusetts
B. Pennsylvania
C. Maine
D. North Carolina
7. If an engine is installed within a vessel, it's called:
A. An internal combustion engine
B. An outboard motor
C. A power boat
D. A powerplant
8. The heaviest ocean liner to date is the:
A. Crystal Symphony
B. Queen Mary 2
C. Queen Elizabeth 2
D. Freedom of the Seas
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