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Understanding Flagship Concepts Across Various Domains

This quiz explores the concept of 'flagship' across various fields, including broadcasting, education, retail, and more, testing your knowledge on notable examples and definitions.

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1 The term dates back to the mid twentieth century years of broadcasting when local stations produced programs for their networks, as remains the practice for public broadcasting's PBS and ________.

2 As such, more than one public university in a state may be designated or referred to as a "flagship." According to Robert M. Berdahl, former ________ chancellor,

3 This can be seen today on HMS Victory, the flagship of Admiral Nelson at the ________, now at Portsmouth, England.

4 Most noticeably, flagships are found in prominent shopping districts (e.g., Ginza, ________, etc.) that are targets for a main set of worldwide high-income shoppers.

5 HMS Victory still serves the ________ today as the ceremonial flagship of the Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command[1] making her the oldest commissioned warship in service.

6 For example, the flagship university of Massachusetts is University of Massachusetts Amherst, not MIT or ________.

7 ________, or simply flagships, are main stores from retailers designed to serve a mainstream of customers.

8 For example, WGN is the flagship station of the ________ baseball team, which has an extensive radio network in several states.

9 The ________, for example, while considered the flagship of the Lincoln division[citation needed], ranges roughly $6,000 below the Navigator in price.

10 It now has common derivations such as the "flagship brand" or "flagship product" of a ________ company or "flagship store" of a retail chain.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • the French ironclad Armide served as the flagship of the French Levant Squadron in 1874–75.
  • the Indefatigable-class battlecruiser HMAS Australia (pictured) was the first flagship of the Royal Australian Navy.
  • the Red Dragon was the flagship of the first voyage of the East India Company.
  • the Suffren was the flagship for a squadron of four French battleships in 1915 during the Dardanelles Campaign.
  • during the 1690 Battle of Québec, a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed.
  • Iron Duke, the lead ship of the Iron Duke class battleships was the flagship of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916.
  • Captain Benjamin Hallowell gave his friend Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile.
  • Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
  • a reconstruction of Verrazzano's flagship La Dauphine is planned to arrive in New York Harbor for the 500th anniversary of Verrazzano's arrival in 2024.
  • Admiral Sir Francis Wheler's mangled body was washed up two days after the loss of his flagship HMS Sussex in 1694.
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