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Exploring Ferries: A Quiz on Passenger and Vehicle Transport

Test your knowledge about ferries, their types, and their operations around the world with this engaging quiz.

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1 A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in ________, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi.

2 The ferry shown right is ferry MV Magogoni used in ________.

3 ________ ferries (RORO) are large, conventional ferries named for the ease by which vehicles can board and leave.

4 A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a ________ with a RoRo ferry.

5 Some ferries in Sydney, Australia and ________ are also double-ended.

6 ________ carries travellers between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland on the country's west coast.

7 In Australia, two Spirit of Tasmania ferries carry passengers and vehicles 300 kilometres across ________, which separates Tasmania from the Australian mainland.

8 In many ways, these ferries are like ________, but they can also carry hundreds of cars on car decks.

9 Sydney Ferries in Sydney, Australia operates 31 passenger ferries in ________ (Sydney Harbour), carrying 18 million passengers annually.

10 In 2008, ________ launched three of the largest double-ended ferries in the world.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed.
  • the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry, Sankaty, set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States.
  • the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas.
  • when she was launched in 1956 MF Storegut (pictured) was the largest lake ferry in Northern Europe.
  • three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more.
  • the Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel Helix Producer 1 servicing at the Deepwater Horizon site was formerly a RORO ferry.
  • the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America's last coastal steamer.
  • Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route.
  • Empire Cedric, a former Landing Ship, Tank, was the first Ro-Ro ferry.
  • Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels.
  • in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina, damaging or destroying 28 other vessels.
  • on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Ã…land archipelago, resulting in the death of six people.
  • Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between.
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