BOAT
2024
QUIZ
of the year
Put your yachting knowledge to the test with five rounds of trivia by quiz-setter Mark Mason. No cheating!
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1 Which 107-metre Lürssen, due for imminent delivery, is named after a British explorer who died in the Falkland Islands in 1922?
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Shackleton
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2 We reported this year on Project Zero, the attempt to build the world’s first fossil-fuel-free superyacht. To prevent it being heated too much by the sun (and thereby reduce the need for air-con), the deck was covered with which material?
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Cork
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3 Frank Mulder, who won the 2024 BOAT Lifetime Achievement Award at our Design and Innovation Awards, has named several of his yachts after movies from which long-running franchise?
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James Bond. Mulder’s vessels have included Octopussy, Moonraker, The World Is Not Enough and Spectre
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3 Frank Mulder, who won the 2024 BOAT Lifetime Achievement Award at our Design and Innovation Awards, has named several of his yachts after movies from which long-running franchise?
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James Bond. Mulder’s vessels have included Octopussy, Moonraker, The World Is Not Enough and Spectre
4 Rather than marble, the new Custom Line 38 uses crema d’Orcia limestone in its bathrooms. The stone was used by which Italian sculptor, who lived from 1475 to 1564?
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Michelangelo
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5 Owner Josh Golder named his vessel King Benji after: a) his son; b) his dog; or c) an ancient ruler of Egypt?
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His dog. In case you’re in doubt – the ancient Egyptian ruler was invented for the purpose of this question
Which boats turned heads this year?
6 The generators on Liva O are made by which company, whose name features in the title of one of the best-selling children’s books of all time?
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Caterpillar (the book being The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
7 The yacht Opera has main floor areas made from which type of wood? One of the trees in question was used as a hiding place by Charles II.
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Oak. The tree in which Charles II hid from Oliver Cromwell’s troops gave rise to the popular pub name the Royal Oak
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8 Which 138.8-metre yacht shares its name with which physical property, normally measured in “candelas per square metre”?
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Luminance
Which boats turned heads this year?
6 The generators on Liva O are made by which company, whose name features in the title of one of the best-selling children’s books of all time?
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Caterpillar (the book being The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
7 The yacht Opera has main floor areas made from which type of wood? One of the trees in question was used as a hiding place by Charles II.
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Oak. The tree in which Charles II hid from Oliver Cromwell’s troops gave rise to the popular pub name the Royal Oak
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8 Which 138.8-metre yacht shares its name with which physical property, normally measured in “candelas per square metre”?
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Luminance
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9 The designer of H3 compares the yacht’s interior styling to a handbag made by which fashion house, founded in 1910?
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Chanel
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10 The project name of this yacht is also the popular abbreviation for which make of car, founded in Blackpool in 1922?
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Jaguar (the yacht being Project Jag)
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11 The country with the second-highest length of yachts under production (5,838 metres) also contains the only city in the world that straddles two continents. Which country is it?
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Turkey (the city being Istanbul)
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12 And which country did it oust from second place?
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The Netherlands, which fell to third place
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13 Which series from Numarine shares its name with a computer operating system released in 2001?
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XP. Microsoft took the name for their system from “experience”
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14 The 10th-biggest builder (by total length of construction) is named after which Taiwanese man, who founded the company in 1977?
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Alex Chueh, founder of Ocean Alexander
15 And that yard’s 35-metre series has the same name as which 1968 Beatles song?
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Revolution
Name the person
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16 He was at a wedding this year with BOAT’s very own Eddie Jordan (lucky chap) – then a few days later he abseiled into the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
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Tom Cruise
17 She is the face of Breitling’s new Navitimer watches (featured in our January issue), and her first language is Afrikaans.
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Charlize Theron
Name the person
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16 He was at a wedding this year with BOAT’s very own Eddie Jordan (lucky chap) – then a few days later he abseiled into the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
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Tom Cruise
17 She is the face of Breitling’s new Navitimer watches (featured in our January issue), and her first language is Afrikaans.
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Charlize Theron
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18 He made his fortune in sport, and bought the 71-metre Force Blue (now on sale again) in 2021.
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Bernie Ecclestone
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19 A book about Benetti this year included the boat built by the yard for this British musician. Many people think (incorrectly) that his eyes were different colours.
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David Bowie. His eyes were actually the same colour as each other, but one had a permanently enlarged pupil, making it darker
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20 This 1979 photo is of which man, windsurfing off Perth, Australia? He had a change of job in 2022.
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Prince Charles, as he was when this picture was taken
On your marks...
21 This year saw the launch of the all-electric Tridente, the first motor boat from which Italian car manufacturer? It was founded by brothers Alfieri, Ettore and Ernesto.
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Maserati
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22 The Yacht Club de Monaco this year celebrated 10 years in a building designed by which British architect?
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Norman Foster
23 Panels in the children’s cabins on Sparta are made from which material, which is fashioned from animal skin and used (until 2016) to record every British Act of Parliament?
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Vellum
24 The drive modes on the El-Iseo, Riva’s first all-electric boat, are adagio, allegro and andante, three classical music terms denoting speed. Which is the fastest, and which the slowest?
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Allegro is fastest, adagio slowest – andante means “moderate”
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25 The US (in figures revealed in our January issue) has 38 per cent of the world’s millionaires. Which country, with 11 per cent, is in second place?
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China
First published in the December 2024 issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.