This quiz complements DIG's May 2011 issue, "Wonders of the Deep."

Pick one answer from the menu under each question.

1. The USS Monitor was used in what war?

a. The Franco-Prussian War
b. The Civil War
c. The War of 1812
d. The Revolutionary War

2. What year was the Monitor launched?

a. 1862
b. 1865
c. 1776
d. 1889

3. How far below the surface of the ocean is the Titanic?

a. Three milesa
b. Two and a half miles
c. 100 ft.
d. 20,000 leagues

4. Long strands of hanging metal corrosion that grow on submerged ships are called what?

a. Rust bunnies
b. Rust vines
c. Rusticles
d. Rust necklaces

5. Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith-Woodward "discovered" what famous bones?

a. Piltdown Man
b. Lucy
c. Zinjanthropus
d. Neanderthal Man

6. What is Thor's Elbow?

a. A bone in the human body
b. An ancient tool
c. A submerged peninsula
d. A submarine

7. Gouges in T. rex bones were identified by Nick Longrich as having been made by what?

a. A feathered dinosaur
b. Early mammals
c. Another T. rex
d. Ritual tools

8. Pavlopetri is the oldest known what?

a. Scuba diving competition
b. Submerged city
c. Mermaid legend
d. Sunken ship

9. What people founded Carthage?

a. The Greeks
a. The Romans
c. The Phoenicians
d. The Celts

10. The Vasa, a ship that sunk soon after leaving port, was from what country?

a. Sweden
b. Norway
c. Denmark
d. Finland

11. Nereus was named after a merman god from what ancient civilization?

a. Philistine
b. Minoan
c. Phoenician
d. Greek

12. How much does the Nereus vessel weigh?

a. 3000 pounds
b. 6000 pounds
c. 1000 pounds
d. 1800 pounds