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Southerly Up keel Time


          Food Funnies
          What are:
          1.    Acting Rabbit?
          2.    Fartleberries?
          3.    Yellow Peril?
          4.    PLM?


         Nautical questions  on Geography,  Not so easy

         1)    What was the original name for the Cape of Good hope?
         2)    Where would you expect to encounter the Furious Fifties?

         3)    Where is Drake Passage?


         Nautical questions on Science, not so easy

         1)    Where is the international dateline?
         2)    What is the great circle route?

         3)    When was the first functioning Navstar GPS satellite launched
               a 1978 b 1988 c 1998

         Nautical questions on Culture, hard

         1)    What quality does the Russian submarine Red October posses?
         2)    Which English actor is described as the “patron saint” of talk like a
               pirate day?

         3)    In the 2000 film U-571, the German U-Boat is boarded by US
               submariners. What espionage device are they looking for?






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