Coast Guard History

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EPME Test sobre Coast Guard History, creado por Joshua Vance el 02/11/2016.
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Pregunta 1

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

Pregunta 2

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

Pregunta 3

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

Pregunta 4

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

Pregunta 5

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

Pregunta 6

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

Pregunta 7

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

Pregunta 8

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

Pregunta 9

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

Pregunta 10

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

Pregunta 11

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

Pregunta 12

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

Pregunta 13

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

Pregunta 14

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

Pregunta 15

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

Pregunta 16

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

Pregunta 17

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

Pregunta 18

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

Pregunta 19

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

Pregunta 20

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

Pregunta 21

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

Pregunta 22

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

Pregunta 23

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

Pregunta 24

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

Pregunta 25

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

Pregunta 26

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

Pregunta 27

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

Pregunta 28

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

Pregunta 29

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

Pregunta 30

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

Pregunta 31

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

Pregunta 32

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

Pregunta 33

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

Pregunta 34

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

Pregunta 35

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

Pregunta 36

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

Pregunta 37

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