General Awareness: Aircraft Carrier quiz

1. What is the only USN pre-war built fleet carrier not to see combat in the Pacific during WWII?

a) USS Langley
b) USS Ranger
c) USS Saratoga
d) USS Wasp

The correct answer is b) USS Ranger

2. What is the longest warship in the world?

a) USS Iowa
b) USS Nimitz
c) USS Ohio
d) USS Enterprise

The correct answer is d) USS Enterprise

3. What was the name of the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier to be designed and built as a carrier?

a) USS Hornet
b) USS Langley
c) USS Ranger
d) USS Enterprise

The correct answer is c) USS Ranger

4. What was the name of the first USN carrier sunk during WWII?

a) USS Yorktown
b) USS Hornet
c) USS Wasp
d) USS Lexington

The correct answer is d) USS Lexington

5. Of the six IJN carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, which was the last one to be sunk?

a) Hiryu
b) Shokaku
c) Akagi
d) Zuikaku

The correct answer is d) Zuikaku

6. What was the only IJN carrier commissioned pre-war to survive WWII?

a) Taiho
b) Akagi
c) Hosho
d) Zuiho

The correct answer is c) Hosho

7. What was the first Royal Navy (RN) carrier designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier?

a) HMS Ark Royal
b) HMS Hermes
c) HMS Illustrious
d) HMS Furious

The correct answer is b) HMS Hermes

8. What was the largest aircraft carrier built during WWII?

a) USS Enterprise
b) HMS Invincible
c) IJN Shinano
d) USS Essex

The correct answer is c) IJN Shinano


9. Which country experimented with the first mirror landing system?

a) Japan
b) USA
c) England
d) France

The correct answer is a) Japan

10. What 2 carriers were involved in the Doolittle Raid on Japan?

a) Lexington, Ranger
b) Yorktown, Saratoga
c) Enterprise, Hornet
d) Hornet, Wasp

The correct answer is c) Enterprise, Hornet

11. What country commissioned Hosho, which was initially laid down as a tanker and converted to a carrier during construction?

a) England
b) Germany
c) Japan
d) USA

The correct answer is c) Japan