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EPME Quiz on Coast Guard History, created by Joshua Vance on 02/11/2016.
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Question 1

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The Coast Guard was created when what two services were merged?
Answer
  • Revenue Cutter Service
  • Life Saving Service
  • Steamboat Inspection Service
  • Lighthouse Service

Question 2

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During what conflict were Coast Guard cutters painted gray to avoid being easy targets in the moonlight or flare light?
Answer
  • Vietnam War
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War

Question 3

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During which conflict did cutters capture 18 prizes unaided and assist in the capture of 2 others?
Answer
  • Quasi-War
  • War of 1812
  • Spanish-American War
  • Mexican-American War

Question 4

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During which conflict did the Treasury Department establish Captain of the Port Offices in New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk and Sault Ste Marie?
Answer
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam War

Question 5

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During which conflict was the first time in the Coast Guard Reserve history that involuntary overseas mobilization occurred?
Answer
  • Desert Shield/Desert Storm
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War

Question 6

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During which conflict was the first time that steamboats were used in war?
Answer
  • Mexican-American War
  • Spanish-American War
  • Civil War
  • War of 1812

Question 7

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Which cutter captured 10 prizes, one of which carried 44 guns and 200 men, three times her own force?
Answer
  • Cutter Pickering
  • Cutter Jefferson
  • Cutter Harriet Lane
  • Cutter Eagle

Question 8

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The sinking of the RMS Titanic was the driving force for establishing the International Ice Patrol.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 9

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Which cutter captured the first prize during the War of 1812?
Answer
  • Cutter Jefferson
  • Cutter Pickering
  • Cutter Harriet Lane
  • Cutter Eagle

Question 10

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Where is the only Coast Guard-manned light station in the U.S. today?
Answer
  • Boston Harbor
  • Cape Hatteras
  • St. George Reef
  • New London Harbor

Question 11

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When this cutter was run ashore the crew dragged her guns to a high bluff and fought the British ships from there?
Answer
  • Cutter Eagle
  • Cutter Jefferson
  • Cutter Pickering
  • Cutter Harriet Lane

Question 12

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Which cutter recaptured the American vessels Nanal and Mehitable in a memorable fight in 1799 with the French Privateer Revenge?
Answer
  • Cutter Eagle
  • Cutter Harriet Lane
  • Cutter Jefferson
  • Cutter Pickering

Question 13

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Which cutter sank an enemy submarine by ramming it?
Answer
  • Cutter Campbell
  • Cutter Tampa
  • Cutter Icarus
  • Cutter Spencer

Question 14

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Which cutter served as a ocean escort to 18 convoys from Gibraltar, comprising 350 vessels?
Answer
  • Cutter Tampa
  • Cutter Northland
  • Cutter Spencer
  • Cutter Campbell

Question 15

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Which cutter took part in the expedition to Fort Sumter in 1861?
Answer
  • Cutter Harriet Lane
  • Cutter Pickering
  • Cutter Eagle
  • Cutter Jefferson

Question 16

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Which cutter took the Norwegian trawler Boskoe into "protective custody" and captured three German radiomen ashore?
Answer
  • Cutter Northland
  • Cutter Spencer
  • Cutter Campbell
  • Cutter McCulloch

Question 17

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Which cutter used depth charges to force a German submarine to surface?
Answer
  • Cutter Icarus
  • Cutter Tampa
  • Cutter McCulloch
  • Cutter Spencer

Question 18

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Which cutter was engaged in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War?
Answer
  • Cutter McCulloch
  • Cutter Eagle
  • Cutter Pickering
  • Cutter Jefferson

Question 19

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Which cutter was engaged with Spanish gunboats and shore batteries in Cardenas Bay during the Spanish-American War?
Answer
  • Cutter Hudson
  • Cutter McCulloch
  • Cutter Jefferson
  • Cutter Eagle

Question 20

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Which cutter was torpedoed by a German submarine after escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom?
Answer
  • Cutter Tampa
  • Cutter Northland
  • Cutter Spencer
  • Cutter McCulloch

Question 21

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Which Lighthouse Keeper served 39 years at the Lime Rock Lighthouse, saving 18 lives?
Answer
  • Ida Lewis
  • Margaret Norvell
  • Pamela Autry
  • Grace Parmalee

Question 22

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Which cutter served as the escort and dispatch boat with Commodore George Dewey's Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish-American War?
Answer
  • Cutter McCulloch
  • Cutter Hudson
  • Cutter Harriet Lane
  • Cutter Jefferson

Question 23

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Which cutter successfully tracked a submarine through a convoy during World War II?
Answer
  • Cutter Spencer
  • Cutter Icarus
  • Cutter Northland
  • Cutter Tampa

Question 24

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During which conflict was the first time that the entire Coast Guard was transferred to the Navy?
Answer
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War
  • War of 1812

Question 25

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During which conflict did the Coast Guard play a marginal role, primarily one of support?
Answer
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam War
  • Desert Shield/Desert Storm
  • Civil War

Question 26

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During which conflict was the first time the Coast Guard augmented the Navy with shallow-draft craft?
Answer
  • War of 1812
  • Civil War
  • Mexican-American War
  • Spanish-American War

Question 27

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During which conflict was the Coast Guard given responsibility for cold-weather operations in Greenland?
Answer
  • World War II
  • World War I
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam War

Question 28

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During which conflict was the first time ocean-going cutters augmented Navy and Coast Guard surveillance forces?
Answer
  • Vietnam War
  • Korean War
  • World War I
  • World War II

Question 29

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Which cutter rescued 578 migrants from a grossly overloaded 75-foot coastal freighter?
Answer
  • Cutter Dauntless
  • Cutter Tampa
  • Cutter Harriet Lane
  • Cutter Spencer

Question 30

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Who founded the Revenue Cutter Service?
Answer
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Samuel Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams

Question 31

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When was the Coast Guard officially transferred to the Department of Homeland Security?
Answer
  • March 1st, 2003
  • March 1st, 2001
  • March 1st, 2013
  • March 1st, 2009

Question 32

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When was the Federal Lifesaving Service initiated?
Answer
  • 1848
  • 1866
  • 1886
  • 1885

Question 33

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Following World War II, members of what organization were given rates and ratings, uniforms and insignia?
Answer
  • Coast Guard Auxiliary
  • Coast Guard Reserve

Question 34

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Members of what part-time force perform the same tasks as active duty personnel?
Answer
  • Coast Guard Reserve
  • Coast Guard Auxiliary

Question 35

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The Refuse Act of 1899 was the catalyst for what Coast Guard mission?
Answer
  • Environmental Protection
  • Boating Safety
  • Law Enforcement

Question 36

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The fatality rate of this focus has greatly declined as a result of what Coast Guard mission?
Answer
  • Boating Safety
  • Law Enforcement
  • Environmental Protection

Question 37

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Drug smuggling in the 1960s gave what mission increased significance?
Answer
  • Law Enforcement
  • Boating Safety
  • Environmental Protection
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