Bermuda Triangle Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Bermuda Triangle trivia quiz and answers

Bermuda Triangle Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

What is the Bermuda Triangle?
A: The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle or Hurricane Alley, is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any what?
A: Mystery.

The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is amongst the most heavily traveled what?
A: Shipping lanes in the world.

Ships frequently cross through it headed for ports where?
A: In the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean islands.

Cruise ships and pleasure craft regularly do what?
A: Sail through the region.

Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to what?
A: The paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.

Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were what?
A: Spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.

In 1964, Vincent Gaddis wrote in the pulp magazine Argosy of the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle, giving its vertices as what?
A: Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda.

Subsequent writers did not necessarily do what?
A: Follow this definition.

Some writers gave different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying how much?
A: From 1,300,000 to 3,900,000 km2 (500,000 to 1,510,000 sq mi).

Consequently, the determination of which accidents occurred inside the triangle depends on what?
A: Which writer reported them.

The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950, article published in what?
A: The Miami Herald (Associated Press) by Edward Van Winkle Jones.

Two years later, Fate magazine published what?
A: "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission.

Sand's article was the first to lay out what?
A: The now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place.

Flight 19 alone would be covered again in what?
A: The April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine.

In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying what?
A: "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white."

He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes did what?
A: "Flew off to Mars."

Sand's article was the first to suggest what?
A: A supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident.

In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were what?
A: Part of a pattern of strange events in the region.

The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a what?
A: A book, Invisible Horizons.

Lawrence David Kusche, author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975) argued what?
A: That many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were often exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable.

Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from whom?
A: Eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved in the initial incidents.

Kusche noted cases where pertinent information went what?
A: Unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been what?
A: Lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean.

Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents that sparked allegations of the Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred where?
A: Well outside it.

Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like what?
A: Unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than what?
A: In any other part of the ocean.

In an area frequented by tropical cyclones, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part what?
A: Neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.

The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by what?
A: Sloppy research.

Some disappearances had, in fact what?
A: Never happened.

One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937, off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed what?
A: Nothing.

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by whom?
A: Writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.

In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world's 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was what?
A: Not among them.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker V. A. Fogg, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had what?
A: Vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

In addition, V. A. Fogg sank off the coast of Texas, nowhere near what?
A: The commonly accepted boundaries of the Triangle.

The NOVA/Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating what?
A: Stating that "When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates. “

Science does not have to answer questions about the Triangle because those questions are not what?
A: Valid in the first place ... Ships and planes behave in the Triangle the same way they behave everywhere else in the world."

Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer, have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very what?
A: Popular and profitable.

They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or inaccurate, but its producers continue to do what?
A: Market it.

Triangle writers have used a number of “what” to explain the events?
A: Supernatural concepts.

One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of what?
A: Atlantis.

A paranormal explanation in the 2005 three-part US-British-German science fiction miniseries The Triangle, says the triangle is a what?
A: A wormhole.

While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have what?
A: Not been found.

One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is what?
A: Human error.

Hurricanes are powerful storms that form in tropical waters and have historically cost what?
A: Thousands of lives and caused billions of dollars in damage.

The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a what?
A: A destructive hurricane.

These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to what?
A: The Triangle.

A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of what?
A: The Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.

The crew of the sunken vessel noted the wind suddenly shifted and increased velocity from 32 km/h (20 mph) to what?
A: 97–145 km/h (60–90 mph).

An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of what on the continental shelves?
A: Methane hydrates (a form of natural gas).

It has been hypothesized that periodic methane eruptions (sometimes called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing what?
A: Adequate buoyancy for ships.

If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to do what?
A: To sink very rapidly and without warning.