Silent Hunter Online Captain's Exam

[Onkel Neal]

The folks at BlueByte/Ubisoft has given me a fresh batch of game voucher codes for Silent Hunter Online to give out. 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.
- 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

[Onkel Neal]

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

[lesrae]

U96

[dundee101]

U-96

the devil's in the details

[lesrae]

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

And welcome to subsim, dundee101 ;-)

[Cybermat47]

U-96.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by lesrae

U96

Winnah! Check your PM box for your code.

[Onkel Neal]

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.

[Cybermat47]

USS Harder SS-257.

[Downunderjock]

Ahoy to all, from the Aussie Bilge Rat? (Landsmen at least I wish.)

Love the Exam, you set up. But I am not on my PC as often as I should.

And, boy do some of you, know your Subs and ships, stuff.

Guess I am just not quick enough.

And I admit, I play Offline.

Was the comedy photo in the Exam, shown worldwide, in it's day?

If not then, buggar.

Operation Petticoat??

Know I am too, late, but no harm having a try?

See Ya.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Dronston

I have a jar full of spare change on my desk (where my pc is at).
I would surface at night, load the deck gun with a blank, stuff the barrel full off coins and aim it at the freighter and shoot the cannon and immediately dive to periscope depth. The deck would be full of coins and the crew of the freighter would scramble to take as many coins as they can since war pay is not making any one rich, thus leaving their posts. This would give me the opportunity to get in position and fire an eel.

Now the fantasy part in my brain hurts...

Wow, that really makes cents! You win!

Originally Posted by BobRoyall

Hogan's Heros may be the sitcom.

Haha. but no The actual sitcom had nothing to do with the military, it was more of a divine theater....

Originally Posted by Submerged Viking

The question is unfair since I only have my TV remote within arms reach. Suppose I can use it to jam the rudder of a freighter and steer it into an iceberg. That's a winner!

So, yeah, I could see that as a realism option in Silent Hunter: Remote jammer.... You win!

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

I would show them my computer and Silent Hunter three thus causing them to get lost in virtual u-boats and never wanting to do the real thing again.

Sorry, but... oh yeah, ok, I got it. You win!

Originally Posted by Maverik010

Chess. i would be checkmating them till they sunk.

Send a few pawns into their flanks. You win!

Originally Posted by Fizwalker

Hmmm.... I have a corkscrew and a few empty beer bottles.

Picture this if you will. It's a inky black night, I've been shadowing this freighter all day and my deck gun is out and cannot be fixed.... I've used all my torpedoes so I pull along side my target. Being truly sneaky, we scramble up the side of the freighter and quietly kill the crew, one by one by stabbing them to death with the cork screw and smashing beer bottles over their heads. However, we cannot just open the sea-cocks and slip away. So I raid the captain's cabin of the freighter and take a few bottles of his best wine. Thus souvenirs in hand, we scuttle the freighter and escape!

That was very imaginative, I liked it. You win!

Originally Posted by Miggy4000

As I have my computer right in front of me, its hard drive has the full Das Boot OST saved on it, on the virtual gramaphone for the torpedo run!

I salute that! You win!

Originally Posted by Alveric

Well, I have lots of pens, pencils, an eraser, rulers and protractor. Assuming I'm on the surface I can even use my 400mm telephoto lens and camera :p. Guess I've everything I need to plot a firing solution. Now, if only I could remember enough trigonometry....

I'm sure it could come back to you. If not, use the Red Triangle! You win!

Originally Posted by Twin Screws

Perry Mason "The case of the slandered submarine" ?

No

Originally Posted by paulhager

Wackiest Ship in the Army. I saw the original movie - not sure I ever saw an episode of the TV show. Just an off-the-wall guess...

No

Originally Posted by Downunderjock

Ahoy to all, from the Aussie Bilge Rat? (Landsmen at least I wish.)

Love the Exam, you set up. But I am not on my PC as often as I should.

And, boy do some of you, know your Subs and ships, stuff.

Guess I am just not quick enough.

And I admit, I play Offline.

Was the comedy photo in the Exam, shown worldwide, in it's day?

If not then, buggar.

Operation Petticoat??

Know I am too, late, but no harm having a try?

See Ya.

Nothing wrong with trying, but no

[Onkel Neal]

So, for the next question on the Silent Hunter Online Captain's Exam:

Name the game this screen is from, and the review score it received from Subsim

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

So, for the next question on the Silent Hunter Online Captain's Exam:

Name the game this screen is from, and the review score it received from Subsim

Looks to be Tom Clancy's SSN which received a rating of 50 on Subsim.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by J2JonJeremy

Looks to be Tom Clancy's SSN which received a rating of 50 on Subsim.

Correct, good job.

SHO Winner code sent to your PM.

[xPDxTV]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

So, for the next question on the Silent Hunter Online Captain's Exam:

Name the game this screen is from, and the review score it received from Subsim

Tom Clancy's SSN with a rating of 50 on the review.