If you weren't there Friday to soak up some knowledge, but still want to learn a little more about Titanic, try your hand at this short quiz based on the lecture. Please find answers below.
Question 1
It's common knowledge that Titanic was done in by an iceberg. But how big was the hole torn in the ship?
a) about the size of a bread box
b) about the size of a refrigerator door
c) about the size of a baseball diamond
Question 2
Of the more than 2,200 passengers, only 705 survived the ship's maiden voyage. How many are still alive today?
a) 3
b) 1
c) 0
Question 3
Which of these historical inaccuracies slipped into James Cameron's blockbuster film of the same name?
a) one character wears a wrist-watch, which weren't widely worn until the 1930s
b) the proportions of Titanic in the film are only 90 percent of the ship's actual size
c) an actor can be seen wearing tennis shoes
d) all of the above
Answers
1. b) The hole was the size of a refrigerator door.
2. b) There is only one remaining survivor of the Titanic crash, Millvina Dean, 95, who was a month old when the Titanic set sail. She now lives in England.
3. d) All of the above. So, how did you do?
A University of South Carolina Beaufort lecture hall was packed with residents, happy to spend some of their holiday learning more about the famous ocean liner.
Willard, a Seneca, S.C., high school physics teacher, designed and built the prototype of a vehicle that dropped to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean to shoot video of the wreckage, roughly 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
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