1. Ensign
   Lieutenant
2. Admiral
   Captain

Admiral is the highest rank currently held in the Navy. Fleet Admiral is technically higher, but no one holds currently holds that position.

1. 1775
   1781
2. 1776
   1783

The Navy dates its founding to Oct. 13, 1775. On that date, the Continental Congress bought two ships with the intent of disrupting British supply lines.

1. USS Constitution
   USS Declaration
2. USS Virginia
   USS Madison

The USS Constitution is better known as Old Ironsides. It got that name when a British cannonball bounced off the side of the ship.

1. James Barron
   Matthew Perry
2. John Paul Jones
   Stephen Decatur

Stephen Decatur became famous for his heroism in the Barbary Wars. He was killed in a duel with James Barron, another naval officer.

1. The Battle of Okinawa
   The Battle of Midway
2. The Battle of Tarawa
   The Battle of Burma

The Battle of Midway took place from June 4-7, 1942. It's often cited as a turning point that halted Japan's offensive momentum.

1. The USS Nimitz
   The USS Dallas
2. The USS Hunley
   The USS Nautilus

The U.S. Navy's USS Nautilus was the first submarine powered by nuclear energy. The Nautilus was first launched in 1954.

1. The Battle of the Caribbean
   The Battle of the Atlantic
2. The Battle of the Mediterranean
   The Battle of the Bismarck

The Battle of the Atlantic is the name given to naval actions in the Atlantic between 1939 and 1945. Much of the "Battle" concerned shipping from America to Britain.

1. The China Sea Incident
   The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
2. The Gulf of Mexico Incident
   The Paracel Islands Incident

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to the torpedoing of the USS Maddox in 1964. As a result, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by the U.S. Congress, which led to the escalation of U.S. war efforts in Vietnam.

1. Matthew Perry
   David Farragut
2. Chester Nimitz
   Norman Schwarzkopf

Matthew Perry opened up Japan in 1853. Japan had been effectively closed off to outside powers since the early 1600s.

1. John M. Richardson
   Mark A. Milley
2. David L. Goldfein
   Joseph F. Dunford

John M. Richardson is the current Chief of Naval Operations. He has held that position since Sept. 18, 2015.

1. The Battle of Charleston
   The Battle of Sandy Hook
2. The Battle of the Chesapeake
   The Battle of Hatteras

The Battle of the Chesapeake saw a joint French-American naval force repel a British naval force from backing up Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. The battle took place on Sept. 5, 1781.

1. Douglas MacArthur
   Chester Nimitz
2. John Paul Jones
   Matthew Perry

Chester Nimitz commanded American naval forces in the Pacific theater. Nimitz was a great supporter of the use of submarines, having served as chief of staff to the commander of America's submarine fleet in WW1.

1. Captain
   Plebe
2. Executive Officer
   Ensign

Ensign is the lowest commissioned (officer) rank in the U.S. Navy. Ensign is also the lowest pay grade.

1. Corvette
   Aircraft carrier
2. Destroyer
   Guided missile cruiser

Guided missile cruisers were first ordered in 1978, and can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles. 22 of the 27 guided missile cruisers are still in action.

1. 329,867
   513,947
2. 129,573
   293,755

There are 329,867 active duty members of the Navy as of December 2018. There are roughly 100,000 reserve members.

1. The Battle of Lake Superior
   The Battle of Lake Anna
2. The Battle of Lake Erie
   The Battle of Newfoundland

The Battle of Lake Erie saw Oliver Perry defeat a squadron of six British ships. The battle helped prevent the British from threatening America's Northwest Territories.

1. The Battle of A Bao A Qu
   The Battle of Konpei Island
2. The Battle of Midway
   The Battle of Guadalcanal

The Battle of Guadalcanal saw the Japanese and American fleets lose 24 ships each. The naval battle was actually part of a larger land, sea and air battle in which the U.S. captured an important Japanese airfield.

1. John Hightower
   John Paul Jones
2. David Farragut
   Chester Nimitz

John Paul Jones uttered the words "I have not yet begun to fight" in a Revolutionary War battle between his ship, the Bonhomme Richard, and a British warship, the Serapis. John Paul Jones' remains were interred at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1906.

1. fouled anchor
   forced anchor
2. fumbled anchor
   frank anchor

A fouled anchor has its chain wrapped around it, or, in some cases, is caught on something. The fouled anchor has been adopted as the emblem of a Chief Petty Officer.

1. The USS Zumwalt
   The USS Schliemann
2. The USS Alabama
   The USS Carper

The USS Zumwalt is a guided missile destroyer with a stealth profile that makes it a much smaller mark on enemy radar (smaller by a factor of 50). At one point, the name of the ship's captain was, fortuitously, James Kirk.

1. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
   Naval Superiority as a Key to Supremacy?
2. The Trireme Heritage
   Under the Equatorial Sun

Alfred Thayer Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" argues that the British Empire became powerful, to a great extent, because of its navy. His book was highly influential, particularly on then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Teddy Roosevelt.

1. USS Wyoming
   USS Wisconson
2. USS Illinois
   USS Arizona

The USS Arizona is directly beneath the USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The memorial was designed by Alfred Preis, an Austrian who emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi invasion of his country.

1. Richard Overton
   Dorie Miller
2. Glenn Miller
   Carl Yazstremski

Dorie Miller, originally a cook, is famous for firing back at attacking Japanese planes. Miller also saved multiples lives by carrying fellow midshipmen out of damaged areas of his ship.

1. 1941
   1951
2. 1955
   1969

The Top Gun school was started in 1969. Thanks to Top Gun, Navy pilots increased their kill ratio from 2:1 against enemies, to 13 enemy planes downed for every one American plane downed.

1. Anchors Aweigh
   As the Caissons Go Rolling Along
2. From the Halls of Montezuma
   The Navy Hymn

"Anchors Aweigh" is the U.S. Navy's official song. It was written in 1906, originally as a college fight song.

1. Joy
   Fear
2. Anger
   Sadness

Navy SEALs are trained to process fear in a more efficient fashion. This surely helps in their highly hazardous line of work.

1. Aircraft carriers
   Destroyers
2. Minesweepers
   Submarines

Submarines are crewed entirely by volunteers. Of course, there are certain perks to being a submariner, such as better-than-average chow on board.

1. The Stealth Mariner
   The Quiet Run
2. The Silent Siren
   The Sea Shadow

The Sea Shadow is the name of the stealth boat tested by Lockheed, but never used by the Navy. However, some of the technology developed for the Sea Shadow found its way into the design of Navy submarines.

1. Egypt
   Chad
2. Somalia
   South Africa

The area off the coast of Somalia became a major hotspot for piracy in the early 21st century. Naval counter-piracy efforts also focused on the Gulf of Guinea, and Southeast Asia.

1. USS Nevada
   USS Arkansas
2. USS Texas
   USS Maine

The sinking of the USS Maine on Feb. 5, 1898, became a rallying point for those who wanted to declare war on Spain. In April of 1898, the U.S. would declare war on Spain, eventually winning territories in Cuba, Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

1. The USS Hunley
   The USS Franklin
2. The USS Nautilus
   The USS Langley

The USS Langley was the Navy's first aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1922. The Langley was actually a collier ship (a coal-carrier) that was transformed into an aircraft carrier. The Langley was scuttled in 1942 after a Japanese attack damaged her engines.

1. The Battle of Santo Domingo
   The Battle of San Juan
2. The Battle of Puerto Rico
   The Battle of Nassau

The Battle of Nassau saw the first American Marine amphibious landing in the Revolutionary War. The battle's goal was the capture of British gunpowder and weapons to supply the Continental Army.

1. A goat
   A dolphin
2. A peregrine falcon
   A shark

The Naval Academy's mascot is Bill the Goat. The Naval Academy actually has two Bill the Goats, a costumed mascot and an actual goat.

1. John McCain
   Scott O'Grady
2. Buzz Aldrin
   Neil Armstrong

Before going to space, Neil Armstrong flew an F9F Panther in the Korean War. Armstrong also flew the experimental X-15 before he went to space.

1. Teddy Roosevelt
   John McCain
2. Buzz Aldrin
   Scott Crossfield

John McCain refused to be released early, and chose instead to uphold the Navy order that soldiers should only be released in the order they're captured. As punishment, his North Vietnamese captors tortured him for several days.