Silent Hunter Online Captain's Exam
 

The folks at BlueByte/Ubisoft has given me a fresh batch of game voucher codes for Silent Hunter Online to give out. :up: Here's how it works:

As a fresh Kaleun, you will be asked to demonstrate your knowledge of submarine history, trivia and lore. Every so often I will post an exam question in this thread. The first person to correctly answer the question will receive one SHO voucher code. Edited posts are not allowed as a winner.

You can only be a winner once.

When will the questions appear? At random, unannounced times. As a skipper, you cannot expect your targets to make an appointment to show up in front of your torpedo tubes, and these questions will be just as unpredictable. There may be one a day or 5 in an hour. There will be 50 in all!

How to redeem a code:

1. Go to the SHO website: http://www.silenthunteronline.com/
2. Login with your account.
3. Click on the button “Shop” and in the shop on the button “Redeem a voucher”.
4. Enter the code and click “redeem”.
5. The player receives the following items as soon as he logs into the game:
- 100 Credits
- 5x Torpedo “XI G7es Zaunkönig II (Level 5)”

Rules:

- Every user only can redeem one of the 50 codes. You can win one time.
- After you have won, please do not answer any more exam questions, allow other skippers to win.:yep:
- Every code only can be used one time.
- If the codes will not be used, they will expire in June 2015.

Good hunting!
Neal
SUBSIM

Question 1: What is the number of the U-boat portrayed in Das Boot? :cool:

U96

U-96
 

U-96

the devil's in the details

For true pedantry, I'd say the number is just 96 :-)

And welcome to subsim, dundee101 ;-)

U-96.

Winnah! Check your PM box for your code.

Question 2: What was the name of Sam Dealey's famous submarine. If ya gotta use Google, that's ok but if you know it by heart, be sure to say so. :shucks:

USS Harder SS-257.

USS Harder SS-257, i love the fact that he's from texas!

Winnah! Check your PM box.:rock:

Right on! :shucks:

Question 3: on average, how many news items appear daily on the Subsim World Naval News?

I'd guess 3

welcome aboard!
 

4! :arrgh!:

Let's see, sometimes there's two, sometimes three, sometimes 4.... I wonder if there is a mathematical way to come up with an average of say, the last two weeks... aren't there some Germans in this forum?

I say 3.2 a day.

:know:
A=S/N
"A = average (or arithmetic mean)
N = the number of terms (e.g., the number of items or numbers being averaged)
S = the sum of the numbers in the set of interest (e.g., the sum of the numbers being averaged)"

(courtesy of http://www.platinumgmat.com/gmat_stu...tatistics_mean)


So in your example of "sometimes" over a 3 day period would be

A=(2+3+4)/3
A=9/3
A=3

In this case the average would be 3. Over a two week period it would be A=(sum of articles a day)/14

And I'm not German :O:

Sure, German here… and the average of the last 14 days (14th till 27th = 14 days) is 2.71428571428571 news per day

Rounding that up to 3.