- What must take place within 24 hours of embarkation on your cruise ship?
Captain's cocktail party
You must register your credit card with the Purser's desk
Lifeboat drill
Midnight chocolate buffet
Bookings for shore excursions close
- What do the initials P.O.S.H. denote?
Peninsular & Oriental Ship History
Port Out Starboard Home
Pretty Old Ship's Hands
Passenger Ordinance Safety Hardware
Pirates On Ship's Horizon
Pacific Ocean Sea Horse
- The QE2 entered service in what year?
1969
1958
1964
1975
- Which two ships were the inspiration for the original "Love Boat"?
Volendam and Veendam
Song of Flower and Song of Norway
Sea Goddess I and Sea Goddess II
Island Princess and Pacific Princess
Imagination and Inspiration
- The staff at the Purser's desk will not.....
smile at you
undertake mechanical repairs to the ship
exchange your currency
give you a printout of your passenger account
deal with customs and immigration matters
- What is the name of the port for Florence in Italy?
Messina
Propriano
Valetta
Livorno
Cockburn's 1977 Reserve
- If you hear a succession of seven or more short blasts of the ship's whistle followed by one long blast, what should you do?
Go to eat - second sitting dinner is announced
Proceed to the pool deck - tropical night party has begun
Get your life jacket and make your way to your emergency boat station
Get ready to curtsey - the Queen is coming aboard
Nothing - it is a special signal for medical staff to report to the bridge
- Which popular Caribbean cruise destination is known as "One Happy Island"?
Grenada
Dominica
Barbados
Jamaica
Aruba
- Which shipyard built the ill-fated Titanic?
Harland & Wolff
Meyer Werfft
John Brown & Co
Fincantieri
Bradford & Bingley
- At a formal night dinner you are likely to see the Parade of the .........
Hungry passengers
Miss Sea Siren 2002 contestants
Baked alaskas
Cruise line employees of the month
Dancing lobsters
- Which waterway provides the link between Ijmuiden and Amsterdam in the Netherlands?
Kiel Canal
North Sea Canal
Grand Union Canal
Suez Canal
Root Canal
- The Strathaird was one of the two P&O "White Sisters" of the 1930s. Name the other.
Strathblaine
Stratosphere
Stanhope
Strathnaver
Stavanger
- What is the "bow" of a ship?
The left side of the ship
The deck where the engine room is located
The apparatus used to steer the ship
A technical procedure perfomed each evening by the entertainment staff
The forward-most part of the ship
- What are the ingredients of a "Bounty Hunter"?
Three parts cowboy, one part criminal and all real-man
Rum, creme de cacao, coconut and cream
Sweet and sour, dark rum and pineapple juice
Cranberry juice, vodka and seven-up
Vodka, blue curacao, lemon and lime juices
- What is a "tender"?
The currency used on board
A roasting oven used in the galley
The ship's communications centre
Slang used when referring to cadet officers
Motor launch used to reach the shore when the ship cannot dock
- What was the Norway's former name?
Star Odyssey
Vistafjord
France
Orsova
Crown Monarch
- On ships' officers uniforms, what does a red stripe on an epaulet signify?
He/she is single and looking
Entertainment staff
Engineering staff
Medical staff
Member of the Rail and Maritime Transport Workers Union
- What is the Beaufort scale?
Measures the force of wind at sea
Predecessor to Morse Code
Commonly used refrain in sea shanties
Payscale for seagoing staff
Dry dock apparatus for weighing ships
- Where will you find St Michael's Caves?
Bermuda
Gibraltar
Barbados
Venezuela
Marks & Spencer
- To commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, .......
Guiseppe Verdi composed the opera "Aida"
The King of Egypt presented Cleopatra's Needle to the people of France
Carnival Cruises offered an extra 15% "Royal Pricebreaker" discount
Jules Verne wrote the novel "Around the World in 80 Days"
J M W Turner painted "Dido Building at Carthage"
- The Bermuda Triangle is......
a former number one single by Barry Manilow
a danger symbol left floating astern when a ship has engine failure
a 1980s TV soap opera set aboard an inter-island ferry
an area of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes have disappeared without trace
an ethnic musical instrument made from banana wood
- According to the Maritime Evaluations Group, how many people, worldwide, took a cruise in 2000?
500,000
2 million
5 million
8 million
10 million
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