Navy Trivia

1. What is the "fiddley"?

2. How long should it take eight paramarines to jump from a plane?

3. What kind of sailor would be most likely to tie this knot:a green hand or an old salt?

4. What material is carried by a ship for calming rough seas?

5. Where would you find an umbrella on a ship?

6. Can a man be put on guard duty as a form of punishment?

7. What historical figure of the American Navy was at one time a member of the Russian Navy?

8. What's the difference between an aquaplane and a hydroplane?

9. Can medals be worn on uniforms on full-dress occasions?

10. Who was the first woman to hold the relative rank of captain in the U.S. Navy?

11. What is the only flag ever hoisted above the national ensign?

12. What is an atoll?

13. Which is closer to Tokyo: Kiska or Singapore?

14. Which of these buoys would most likely be seen by forces invading France?

15. How many Congressional Medals of Honor have been awarded
to naval personnel in World War II - 25, 42, 68?

16. Can an executive officer afloat hold the rank of captain?

17. May an admission fee be charged to a boxing bout held for the benefit
of Navy Relief in a navy yard?

18. How is sea temperature obtained?

19. When did Germany surrender her World War I fleet:
(a) 7 July 1917
(b) 11 November 1918
(c) 21 November 1918?

20. Does the term "continental limits of the United States" include Alaska and the Canal Zone?

Words like freedom, justice, and truth --all of them hard to define, none of them used more frequently than freedom.

You cannot say what freedom is, perhaps, in a single sentence. It is not necessary to define it. It is enough to point to it.

Freedom is a man lifting a gate latch,at dusk and sitting for awhile on the porch, smoking his pipe, before going to bed.

It is the violence of an argument, outside an election poll; it is the righteous anger of the pulpits.

It is the warm laughter of a girl on a park bench.

It is the rush of a train over the continent and the unafraid faces of people looking out the window.

It is all the "howdy's" in the world, and all the "hellos".

It is Westbrook Pegler telling Roosevelt how to raise his children; it is Roosevelt letting them raise themselves.

It is Dorothy Thompson asking for war; it is Gen. Hugh Johnson asking her to keep quiet.

It is trying to remember the words of the Star Spangled Banner.

It is the sea breaking on wide sands somewhere and the shoulders of a mountain supporting the sky.

It is the air you fill your lungs with and the dirt that is your garden.

It is a man cursing all cops.

It is the absence of apprehension at the sound of approaching footsteps outside your closed door.

It is your hot resentment of intrigue, the tilt of your chin, and the tightening of your lips sometimes.

It is all the things you do and want to keep doing. It is all the things you feel and cannot help feeling.

FREEDOM--it is you.

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