Answers: How Much Titanic Trivia Did You Know?

ANSWERS to the

1. The White Star Line launched the Titanic.

2-3. The Titanic was built in Belfast, Ireland and sailed from Southampton, England.

4. The ship had two anchors.

5. The captain was Edward Smith.

6. There were 706 survivors.

7. It took about 15 minutes for the Titanic to sink to the ocean floor.

8-9. The Carpathia rescued survivors and took them to New York City. That ship was later torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1918.

10. Nine people were rescued from the water. Three of them died shortly after.

11. 472 lifeboat spaces went unfilled.

12. There were 1,517 victims of the sinking.

13. The Titanic's wreckage was discovered in 1985.

14. A Titanic deck chair is up for auction with a starting bid price of $10,000.