Exploring Cruise Ships: A Quiz on Ocean Travel Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the cruise ship Ocean Monarch was awarded a gold medal for her design by the American Academy of Designing.

the cruise ship MS Rhapsody (pictured) was designed in part by Hugh Hefner, who envisioned the ship as a "floating Playboy Club".

the cruise ship Costa Allegra was originally built as the container ship Annie Johnson.

the USS Timbalier, a Barnegat class seaplane tender, served as a postwar cruise ship until 1989.

the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of an Ulyanovsk railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today.

the cruise ship MS Columbus C. sank in Cádiz harbour after accidentally ramming the harbour's breakwater in 1984.

the cruise ship MS Astor (pictured) was ordered in 1985 as an ocean liner for Safmarine's UK–South Africa service, but the service was abandoned before the ship was completed.

John Heald, the senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines, began working in cruise ships as a bar waiter.

MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004.

Costa Deliziosa will be the first cruise ship to be christened in an Arabian city.

the 1989 Malta Summit between the United States and Soviet Union was held onboard SS Maxim Gorkiy, a Soviet cruise ship that had partially sunk near Svalbard less than six months before.

North Sea ferry TS Leda (pictured) was rebuilt as a cruise liner, then became an accommodation vessel at a penal colony for Mafiosi, and ultimately was the scene of a Greenpeace demonstration.

Exploring Cruise Ships: A Quiz on Ocean Travel

1 The MS Marco Polo and ________ are examples.

2 A handful of old ________ also remain in service as cruise ships.

3 Typically, these private islands are in the Bahamas, although Royal Caribbean uses a beach in ________.

4 Traditionally, an ________ for the transoceanic trade will be built to a higher standard than a typical cruise ship, including stronger plating to withstand ocean voyages, most commonly crossing the North Atlantic.

5 The most visited ports in Mediterranean Sea are ________ (Spain), Civitavecchia (Italy), Palma (Spain) and Venice (Italy).

6 A cruise ship or cruise liner is a ________ used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are part of the experience.

7 Cruise lines operating in the Caribbean include Royal Caribbean International, Princess Cruises, ________, Celebrity Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Holland America, P&O, Cunard, Crystal Cruises, and Norwegian Cruise Line.

8 Next was Continental Europe (13%), where the fastest growing segment is cruises in the ________.

9 Other ports of call include: Belize City, Costa Maya, Cozumel, ________, Aruba, Grand Turk and Key West.

10 In contrast, dedicated transport oriented ________ do "line voyages" and typically transport passengers from one point to another, rather than on round trips.

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