Answers to Submarine Mystery Questions of the Week (from 11 MAR 2011)

Mystery Questions of the Week ANSWERs:

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Kudos to Cookie..... , who got them right, again!

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1) - The mystery photo on the left (above) illustrates some of the aftermath of a famous earthquake whose submerged epicenter occurred about 2 miles offshore. What city was this?

ANS: San Francisco, Calif
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2) - What was the date of the earthquake whose aftermath is shown in the mystery photo?

ANS: April 18, 1906
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3) - What, before your eyes, is extremely rare about the mystery photo? ANS: The photograph is NOT colorized; it and others like it are actual color photographs taken 1n 1906, discovered by the Smithsonian Institution. Color photography was invented in 1861, although most snapshots, movies, magazines and book illustrations until the 1950’s were still in black and white.

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4) - Name the photographer who took the mystery photo? ANS: Frederick Ives
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5) - In what month and year was the mystery photo taken? ANS: Ives took the photos during a trip to San Francisco in October 1906, six months after the great earthquake.
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6) - The USS Wahoo submariner (above link) was just West of what island when his own experience occurred? ANS: Taiwan
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Submarines are always silent and strange.