Coast Guard History

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EPME Quiz sobre Coast Guard History, criado por Joshua Vance em 02-11-2016.
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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

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

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

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

Questão 17

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

Questão 18

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

Questão 19

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

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

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

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

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

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

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

Questão 29

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

Questão 30

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

Questão 31

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

Questão 32

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

Questão 33

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

Questão 34

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

Questão 35

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

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

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

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