AN ENCORE NORMANDIE QUIZ

The Encore Normandie Quiz, devised by Ocean Liner Museum trustee Tim Yoder. (Is that your final answer?) Answers are at the bottom of this page.

1. Where were the dog kennels located?
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2. What third class public room was two decks high?
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3. Which was longer overall, Queen Mary or Normandie?
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4. What public room was a first aboard Normandie, never before seen on any other liner?
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5. What year was the illuminated sign removed from the Sun Deck and what other prominent feature was placed in this area?
(two points)____________;

6. The vessel's four propellers were driven by
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Each originally possessed how many blades?
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7. What was Normandie's gross tonage at her completion? (rounded to the nearest 1,000 tons)
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8. When sailing on her maiden voyage, what were Normandie's three passenger class's original designated names?
______________;
______________;
______________. (three points)

9. What public room was air conditioned by an elaborate Carrier Air Conditioning plant?
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10. Olympic, Empress of Britain, Queen Mary and Nieuw Amsterdam all boasted this indoor facility that Normandie lacked. What was it?
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11. During her commercial life, Normandie was the world's largest ship-true or false?
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12. What was the unusual feature of Normandie's lifeboat configuration?
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13. A major re-fit over the winter of 1935/36 helped Normandie ensure her title as world's _________________? What major structural modification achieved this goal?
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14. In what month and year was Normandie seized by the United States government?
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15. What did the U.S. Navy name the ship?
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16. The fire that destroyed the vessel started in which public room?
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17. Normandie burned and capsized at Pier 88; was adjacent Pier 90 damaged?
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18. In 1942, serious consideration was given to converting Normandie into a
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19. Did Normandie take the Blue Ribband on both west- and eastbound crossings?
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20. In 1988, RCCL's Sovereign of the Seas, also built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, replicated what prominent Normandie feature?
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21. The Ocean Liner Museum possesses what major Normandie artifact?
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22. What 1936 MGM musical motion picture showed a fine silhouette broadside view of Normandie through a submarine periscope in New York harbor?
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