Prove your superyacht schooling with this bumper trivia trial by Mark Mason. Ready, set, go!
BOAT
2025
QUIZ
of the year
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IN THE NEWS
Hitting the headlines in 2025
1
Which two movie stars were this year announced as the new owners of the Australian SailGP team?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds
2
This summer, which Dutch builder was bought by an American businessman who is better known as a video game developer?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Oceanco, bought by Gabe Newell
3
In our January issue we featured an exclusive on the Royal Huisman sportfisher whose name was used, about himself, by a Premiership football manager in 2004?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Special One
4
Which 73-metre yacht, relaunched this year after a major refit, features an English pub set-up, complete with booth seating, an arcade machine and a dartboard?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Starfire
5
What is unusual about the payment arrangements for Obsidian Blade, a 41-metre custom project announced this year by Denison Yachting?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
It is being paid for using cryptocurrency
Photography: Adobe Stock; Oceanco; Getty Images; Tullio Puglia - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images; Giovanni Romero/The Yacht Photo; Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images; Damen Yachting; Illustration by Rethish Art; Mark Nicholson
Big boats leading the conversation
6
The brief for 142-metre Dragonfly was that it had to carry the largest number of people allowed on board before being considered a passenger ship. What is that number?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
92
7
Which 102.5-metre yacht bears the Latin name for the legendary Greek figure Odysseus?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Ulysses
8
Which 120-metre yacht project, named after a blue gemstone, will produce the largest yacht ever built in the Netherlands at its 2026 delivery?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Project Tanzanite
9
Which 91.8-metre yacht has a name that describes light rain, and also features in something you can make from lemons?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Drizzle
10
The fuel cells on 118.8-metre Breakthrough produce power by reacting air with which gas? It has the atomic number 1.
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Hydrogen
Wise words and interesting utterances
11
This year saw the 50th anniversary of Jaws. Which line from the film was improvised by Roy Scheider after the crew kept using it about their support vessel?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat”
12
The American publisher Malcolm Forbes gave the four guest suites on his yacht The Highlander names rather than numbers, for which ingenious reason?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
So that, in the words of the king of Bulgaria, “no one is offended by being given cabin number four”
13
Our onboard etiquette guide included the advice that you should always remove which item when meeting someone for the first time?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Sunglasses
14
Superyacht owner James Berwind, interviewed in BOAT International this year, named his 37-metre Ocean Alexander after a famous Danish squirrel, which was itself named after a cartoon character. Identify that squirrel.
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Tintin
15
Nikolas Pateras told us that his two Cantieri di Pisa yachts reminded him of which make of car, “because they had these beautiful lines and large side exhausts”?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Ferrari
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PICTURE THIS
Put names to these faces
16
Tom Schröder’s yacht is called Maverick because he’s a fan of Top Gun. Its tender is called Iceman, after Tom Cruise’s rival in the film, played by this actor, who died this year. Who is he?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Val Kilmer
17
Admiral enjoyed a partnership with this designer (who died in September and features in this very issue of the magazine). He designed a two-boat series for the builder. Who was he?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Giorgio Armani
18
The helipad on Anjelif doubles as what? It’s a feature mentioned in the title of a song by this woman.
REVEAL THE ANSWER
A dance floor
19
This woman was talking about her 1957 meeting with Aristotle Onassis. Who was she?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Maria Callas
Celebrating our irrepressible columnist, the late Eddie Jordan
21
Eddie liked to quote the old saying about boat ownership: “The best two days are when you buy it and when you ...” what?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Sell it
22
In one of his last columns, Eddie wrote this about driving at which racetrack?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Monaco
23
In February, Eddie and his son Kyle bought London Irish, a club that competes in which sport?
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Rugby union
24
The title of Eddie’s podcast with David Coulthard was ... for Success. What was that first word, a nod to a pursuit in which they’d both been involved?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Formula
25
On whose private jet did Eddie once fly from Japan to London, eating only nuts? There was no food on board because the owner refused to pay for the plane to be cleaned.
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Bernie Ecclestone
FANTASTICAL FEATURES
Characterful design and fun facilities
26
Serenissima I has a full-sized what on its foredeck? It allows people to compete in a sport that is the subject of the 1956 book The Sweet Science.
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Boxing ring
27
The new 61-metre Asia has a stage designed for which activity, whose name is the Japanese for “empty orchestra”?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Karaoke
28
Which new 79.5-metre Feadship is named after the quality of courage (spelled the American way)?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Valor
29
Feadship’s Project Thalassa is named after a Greek goddess because of what onboard feature that spans 165 square metres?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
Beach club (Thalassa is the Ancient Greek word for sea)
30
The research vessel REV Ocean, due for delivery in 2026, will carry (among a wealth of extraordinary features) a Triton sub that is the world’s deepest-diving model with an acrylic sphere. How deep can it go?
REVEAL THE ANSWER
2,300m
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First published in the December 2025 issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.
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